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Exploring Bach's enduring importance

Table of Contents

Preface   ix
Abbreviations   xi

BEFORE BACH
A Master Teacher Revealed: Johann Pachelbel's Deutliche Anweisung   3
BY KATHRYN WELTER

From the House of Aaron to the House of Johann Sebastian: Old Testament Roots for the Bach Family Tree   15
BY MARY DALTON GREER

BACH'S VOCAL MUSIC
Combinatorial Modeling in the Chorus Movement of Cantata 24, Ein ungefarbt Gemute   35
BY ALEXANDER J. FISHER

Choral Unison in J. S. Bach's Vocal Music   53
BY DANIEL R. MELAMED

You Say Sabachthani and I Say Asabthani: A St. Matthew Passion Puzzle   61
BY MICHAEL OCHS

Sein Segen fliesst daher wie ein Strom, BWV Anh. I 14: A Source for Parodied Arias in the B-Minor Mass?   69
BY WILLIAM H. SCHEIDE

BACH CIRCLE
Johann Friedrich Schweinitz, "A Disciple of the Famous Herr Bach in Leipzig"   81
BY HANS-JOACHIM SCHULZE

Johann Christian Bach and the Church Symphony   89
BY JEN-YEN CHEN

BACH'S INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
Scribes, Engravers, and Notational Styles: The Final Disposition of Bach's Art of Fugue   111
BY GREGORY G. BUTLER

Notes on J. S. Bach and Basso Continuo Realization   125
BY TON KOOPMAN

Music for "Cavaliers et Dames": Bach and the Repertoire of His Collegium Musicum   135
BY GEORGE B. STAUFFER

A Print of Clavieriibung 1 from J. S. Bach's Personal Library   157
BY ANDREW TALLE

AFTER BACH
Carl Reinecke's Performance of Mozart's Larghetto and the Nineteenth-Century Practice of Quantitative Accentuation   171
BY ROBERT HILL

"Grand Miscellaneous Acts": Observations on Oratorio Performance in London after Haydn   181
BY MARK RISINGER

Back from B-A-C-H: Schumann's Symphony No. 2 in C Major   191
BY DOUGLASS SEATON

Contributors   207
Index   211

About the Author

Gregory G. Butler is a professor of musicology at the University of British Columbia and the editor of Bach Perspectives, Volume 7: J. S. Bach's Concerted Ensemble Music: The Concerto. George B. Stauffer is a professor of music and Dean of the Mason Gross School of Arts at Rutgers University. He has published seven books, including Bach: The Mass in B Minor. Mary Dalton Greer is the founder and director of the series Cantatas in Context, in collaboration with the Orchestra of St. Luke's. She has taught at Yale and Montclair State University.

Reviews

"The authors of this volume advance the leading edge of musical scholarship through their knowledgeable studies of Bach and his period. Scholars around the world will want to read this." Stephen A. Crist, editor of Bach Perspectives, Volume 5: Bach in America