Books about Bach & his Music - Reviews & Discussions

Books about Bach & his Music
This section of the Bach Cantatas Website (BCW) contains Reviews & Discussions of Books about J.S. Bach & his music, most of which have been compiled from the Bach Cantatas Mailing List (BCML) & Bach Recordings Mailing List (BRML). If you want to contribute a book review or to discuss a book relating to J.S. & his music, please send a message to BCML/BRML. If you are not yet a member of the BCML/BRML, you are invited to join. The instructions how to join the BCML/BRML and how to post messages appear at: How to contribute.

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Index to Reviews & Discussions of Books about Bach & his Music
Title	Author	Edition	Year
General Discussions: Part 1 \| Part 2 \| Part 3	-	-
Analyzing Bach Cantatas	Eric Chafe	Oxford University Press	2000
Bach	Martin Geck	Haus Publishing	2003
Bach - An Extraordinary Life	Davitt Moroney	ABRSM Publishing	2000
Bach and the Dance of God	Wilfrid Howard Mellers	Oxford University Press	1981
Bach and the Patterns of Invention	Laurence Dreyfus	Harvard University Press	1997
Bach Interpretation: Articulation Marks in the Primary Sources of J.S. Bach	John Butt	Cambridge University Press	1990
Bach und Ich	Maarten ‘t Hart	Gebundene Ausgabe	2002
Bach in Berlin	Celia Applegate	Cornell University Press	2005
Bach Werke Verzeichnis	Schmeider	Breitkopf & Härtel	1998
Bach's Cantatas: Discussions \| Petition	Alfred Dürr	Oxford University Press	2005
Bach's Changing World: Voices in the Community	Carol K. Baron	University of Rochester Press	2006
Bach's Choral Ideal: Part 1 \| Part 2 \| Part 3	Joshua Rifkin	?	2002
Bach’s Continuo Group	Laurence Dana Dreyfus	Harvard University Press	1987
Bach’s Passion (new title: Sebastian, the life of J.S. Bach)	RuthAnn Ridley	Quiddity Press (was: WinePress Publishing)
The Bach Reader / The New Bach Reader	Hans T. David, Arthur Mendel, Christoph Wolff (Editors)	Dent & Sons W W Norton & Co	1967 1998
Bach-Kommentar	Martin Petzoldt	Bärenreiter	2004
Die Blechblasinsturmente in J.S.Bachs Werken	Gisela & Jozsef Csiba	Berlin	1994
The Cambridge Companion to Bach	John Butt	Cambridge University Press	1997
The Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach: Sacred & Secular	William Gillies Whittaker	Oxford University Press	1959
J.S. Bach - The Complete Cantatas in German-English Translation	Richard Stokes	Long Barn Books / Scarecrow Press	1999
Die Blechblasinstrumente in J. S. Bach's Werken [The brass instruments in the pieces of J. S. Bach]	Gisela Csiba y Jozsef Csiba	Merseburger	1994
Complete Church Cantatas on CD	-	CD Sheet Music	2001
The English Bach Awakening	Michael Kassler, Philip Olleson & Yo Tomita	Ashgate	2004
The Essential Bach Choir	Andrew Parrott	Boydell Press	2000
Evening in the Palace of Reason	James R. Gaines	Harper Perennial	2006
Fugitive Notes on Certain Cantatas and the Motets of J.S. Bach	William Gillies Whittaker	Oxford University Press	1924
Handbook To Bach's Sacred Cantata Texts	Melvin P. Unger	Scarecrow Press	1996
A History of the Vienna Boys’ Choir	Kim Lorenz	Book Guild	1998
J.S. Bach	Albert Schweitzer	Dover Publications
Johann Sebastian Bach (3 Volumes)	Philipp Spitta	Dover Publications
Johann Sebastian Bach: Life and Work	Martin Geck	Harcourt	2006
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician	Christoph Wolff	W. W. Norton & Company	2001
Life of Bach	Peter Williams	Cambridge University Press	2003
Meter in Music, 1600-1800	Gerge Houle	Indiana University Press	1987
MOI, JSB [French]	Jean-Pierre Grivois	Bokopole	2003
On Johann Sebastian Bach's Life, Genius, and Works	Johann Nikolaus Forkel	J.M. Dent & Sons	1802
Oxford Composers Comapnion - J.S. Bach	Malcolm Boyd	Oxford University Press	1999
Sebastian, the life of J.S. Bach (was: Bach’s Passion)	RuthAnn Ridley	Quiddity Press (was: WinePress Publishing)
Text and Act	Richard Taruskin	Oxford University Press	1995
The Sacred Dramas of J.S. Bach	W. Murray Young	McFarland & Company	1993
The St. Matthew Passion: Its Production and Performance	?
Theories of Fugue from the Age of Josquin to the Age of Bach	Paul Walker	Boydell & Brewer	2000
Tonal Allegory in the Music of J.S. Bach	Eric Chafe	University of California Press	1991
The True Life of J.S. Bach	Klaus Eidam	Basic Books
Worship Wars in Early Lutheranism	Joseph Herl	Oxford University Press	2004
The World of the Bach Cantatas	Christoph Wolff & Ton Koopman	W.W. Norton & Company	1997
The Early Music Movement from Within and Without [Article]	Uri Golomb
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Prepared by Aryeh Oron (November 2000 - April 2008)

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