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Index to Discussions of General
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This section of the Bach Cantatas Website (BCW)
contains discussions of General Topics relating to Bach & his
music. Other discussions can be found in other sections of the BCW:
discussions of specific works - at the Cantatas,
Other Vocal Works
and Non-Vocal
Works sections and discussions of
performers at the Performers
section. Most of the discussions have been compiled from the Bach
Cantatas Mailing List (BCML), Bach Recordings Mailing List (BRML)
and Bach Musicology Mailing List (BCML).
If you want to discuss a general topic relating to Bach & his
music, please send a message to the relevant Bach ML. If you are not
yet a member of this ML, you are invited to join. The instructions
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About the Bach Cantatas Website
Introduction
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Instruments
Bassoon in Bach’s Vocal Works: Part
1 | Part
2
Brass Instruments in
Bach's Vocal Works
Bach and Chalemeau
Clarinet in Bach’s
Vocal Works
Continuo in Bach’s Vocal Works: Part
1 | Part
2 | Part
3 | Part
4 | Part
5 | Part
6 | Part
7 | Part
8
Corno da caccia
in Bach's Vocal Works
Flute in Bach's Vocal Works: Part
1 | Part
2 | Part
3 | Part
4
Horn in Bach’s Vocal
Works
Obbligato Instruments
in Bach’s Vocal Works
Oboe & Oboe d’amore in Bach’s Vocal Works: Part
1 | Part
2
Trombones in Bach’s
Vocal Works
Trumpets in Bach’s Vocal Works: Part
1 | Part
2 | Part
3 | Part
4 | Part
5 | Part
6 | Part
7 | Baroque
D Trumpet Resonances | Bach's
Compositions using trumpets or horns with timpani
Viola d’amore in
Bach's Vocal Works
Viola da Gamba in Bach's
Vocal Works
Violin in Bach's Vocal
Works
Violoncello
Piccolo in Bach's Vocal Works
Instrumentation |
Radio, Concerts, Festivals
Concerts of Cantatas,
Bach Festivals, Confrerences
Bach on iTunes
Bach on Ring Tones
Bach on Radio
Schedule of Concerts of Bach’s Vocal Works: Year
2003 | Year
2004 | Year
2005 | Year
2006 | Additions/changes/corrections
The Pope & Bach
Recordings of Bach’s Vocal Works
Recordings of Cantatas & Recommended Canatas - General
Discussions: Year
1996 | Year
1998 | Year
1999 | Yerr
2000 | Year
2001 | Year
2002 | Year
2003 | Year
2004 | Year
2005-1 | Year
2005-2 | Year
2005-3 | Year
2006 | Year
2007 | Year
2008 | Year
2009 | Year
2010 | Year
2011
Art vs. Business
Introducing
People to Bach
Brainwashing by
Favourite Recordings
Listening to Bach's Vocal
Works
Texts & Translations / Languages
Texts of Bach Cantatas
Translations of Texts of Bach's Vocal Works: Part
1 | Part
2 | Part
3 | Part
4
Bach in English
Bach in Other Languages
Bach’s Librettists
Readings from the Bible
Hidden Text
Psalms in Bach’s Vocal
Works
German Language
in Bach's Time
Bach's Languages
Accent / German |
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Voices
Sopranos in
Bach’s Vocal Works
Boy Soloists in Bach’s Vocal Works: Part
1 | Part
2 | Part
3
Male sopranos in
Bach’s Vocal Works
Altos in Bach’s Vocal
Works
Counter-tenors in Bach’s Vocal Works: Part
1 | Part
2 | Part
3
Tenors in Bach’s Vocal
Works
Basses in Bach’s Vocal
Works
Women in Bach’s Vocal Works: Part
1 | Part
2 | Part
3 | Part
4
Men in Bach's Vocal Works
Castrati in Bach’s
Vocal Works
Singers in Bach Vocal
Works
Falsetto
Flawed Voice
Half-Voice: Part 1
| Part 2
Light Voices
Number of Voices
Ripieni
Singing Bach: Part 1
| Part 2
| Part 3
Vibrato: Part 1
| Part 2
| Part 3
Voice Types
Choirs
Choir Form: Part
1 | Part
2 | Part
3 | Part
4 | Part
5 | Part
6 | Part
7 | Part
8 | Part
9
Boys’ Choirs
Modern
Choir Schools
Multiple Choirs
OVPP (One-Voice-Per-Part): Part
1 | Part
2 | Part
3 | Part
4 | Part
5 | Part
6 | Part
7 | Part
8 | Part
9 | Part
10 | Part
11 | Part
12 | Part
13 | Part
14 | Part
15 | Part
16 | Part
17 | Part
18 | Part
19 | Part
20 | Part
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Congregational
Singing |
Scores & Composition
Scores of Bach Cantatas: Part
1 | Part
2 | Part
3
Bach’s Manuscripts
Bach’s Markings &
Notation
Bach's Sets of Parts
Bach's Signature
Anna Magdalena
as Copyist
Alla Breve
Cantata Keys
Commas
Counterpoint
Crotchets & Quavers
Dissonance
Double-Dotting
Epanalepsis
Fermata
Ghost(ed) Notes in
Bach’s Vocal Works
Incipit
Meantone
Minims: Part 1
| Part 2
| Minims -
Examples from the Score
Music Notation
Software
Scoring of Bach's Vocal
Works
Tierce di
Picardie
Trill
Bach Composing: Part 1
| Part 2
| Part 3
| Part 4
| Part 5
| Part 6
| Part 7
Divine
Inspiration
The concept of the great
composer
Sonata
Development
Writing in
the Bach’s Style
Re-Writing Bach
Cantata Style
Cantabile Bach
Chiasm in Bach's Vocal
Works
Unison Passages
Passus duriusculus
| Score
Examples | Source
Material
Circulatio
| Source
Material
Crosses | Score
Examples |
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Movements
Arias in Bach’s Vocal Works: Part
1 | Part
2
Chorales in Bach's Vocal Works: Part
1 | Part
2 | Part
3 | Part
4 | Part
5 | Part
6
Dance Movements in
Bach’s vocal Works
Duets in Bach Cantatas
Recitatives in Bach’s Vocal Works: Part
1 | Part
2 | Part
3 | Part
4 | Part
5 | Part
6 | Part
7 | Part
8 | Part
9 | Part
10 | Part
11 | Part
12 | Part
13 | Part
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Instrumental
Recitative
Sinfonias in Bach
Cantatas
Trios in Bach’s Vocal
Works
Parodies, Reconstructions, Transcriptions
Arrangements of
Bach’s Vocal Works
Bach on Computers
Completing
Bach Work
Parodies in Bach’s Vocal Works: Part
1 | Part
2 | Part
3 | Part
4
PDQ Bach
Reconstructions
Transcriptions
Numbering, Symbolism, etc.
BWV Numbering System: Part
1 | Part
2 | Part
3
The
Esoteric Bach
Number Symbolism in Bach Cantatas: Part
1 | Part
2
Symbolism
Religion, Politics, etc.
Anti-semitism in Bach’s Vocal Works: Part
1 | Part
2 | Part
3
Bach and Politics
Bach & Religion: Part
1 | Part
2 | Part
3 | Part
4 | Part
5 | Part
6 | Part
7
Bach and Nazis
Bach and
Expressionism
Bach and Minimalism
Bach’s Secret
Jesus' Life
Martin Luther and Bach
Bach the Evangelist: Part
1 | Part
2 | Part
3
The Passion
according to Judas |
Life of Bach
Bach's Birthday
Bach's Body
Bach's Death and
Funeral
Bach's Health
Bach’s Life: Part 1
| Part 2
| Part 3
Bach's Education: Part
1 | Part
2 | Part
3
Bach’s Time: Part 1
| Part 2
| Part 3
Bach and Censorship
Bach in Time
Machine
Bach Tour: Guide
| Discussions
Face of Bach
J.S. Bach's Pictures
Movies on Bach
Anna Magdalena
Bach
Guide to Bach Tour
Performance Dates of Bach’s Vocal Works: Chronology
| Discussions
Bach the pedantic
performer?
Invisible Bach
Bach as Conductor
Bach’s Personality
J.S. Bach’s Quote
Bach Family
Bach & Drinking
Bach Memorabilia
Bach's Organs
Bach & Other Composers
See: Bach
& Other Composers
Bach's
Choral Repertoire =
Bach’s
Library = |
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Performance Practice
Acoustics: Part
1 | Part
2
Articulation
Audibility
Authenticity
Conducting Bach
Correctness: Part
1 | Part
2
Effusiveness
Expressivity &
Expression
Dynamics
Harmonic Rhythm
Harmony
Freedom of Expression
HIP (Historically Informed Performance): Part
1 | Part
2 | Part
3 | Part
4 | Part
5 | Part
6 | Part
7 | Part
8 | Part
8 | Part
9 | Part
10 | Part
11 | Part
12 | Part
13 | Part
14 | Part
15 | Part
16 | Part
17 | Part
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Improvisation
Interpretation
Memorizing
Musicianship
Musicology vs.
Performance
Notes Value
Ornamentation
Particularity,
Objectivity, Subjectivity, Peculiarity
Perfect Execution / Precision / Perfection: Part
1 | Part
2 | Part
3
Perfect Pitch
Practicing
Pronunciation: Part
1 | Part
2 | Part
3
Rehearsing: Part 1
| Part 2
| Part 3
| Part 4
Repeats
Scholarship
Second Thoughts
about Bach
Singing Bach vs.
Other Composers
Singing Style
Sight-Reading
Solo parts sung by
more than one vocalist
Speed Freaks Do
Bach
Taste in Music
Technical Matters
Tempo: Part 1
| Part 2
Temperament / Key Character / Tuning: Part
1 | Part
2 | Part
3 | Part
4 | Part
5 | Part
6
Transposing
Performance of Bach’s Vocal Works: Part
1 | Part
2 | Part
3 | Part
4 | Part
5 | Part
6 | Part
7 | Part
8 | Part
9 | Part
10 | Part
11 | Part
12 | Part
13 | Part
14 | Part
15 | Part
16 | Part
17 | Part
18 | Part
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General Guide to
approaching musical ideas |
What, When & Where
What is a Cantata?
When are Cantatas played?
Where were the Cantatas
performed?
Events in the Lutheran Church Year: Part
1 | Part
2 | Part
3 | Part
4 | Part
5 | Part
6
Liturgical
Service
Readings from the Bible
Various Cantata Topics
A Capella
Cantatas
Early Bach Cantatas: Part
1 | Part
2
Easy Cantatas
Bach's Weimar
Cantatas
First Leipzig
Years
2nd Cycle of
Bach Cantatas in Leipzig
3rd Cycle of
Bach Cantatas in Leipzig
The Five Cycles
Lost Bach Cantatas
Fictional
Cantatas
Secular Cantatas - General Discussions: Part
1 | Part
2
Two-Part
Cantatas
Non-Bach Cantatas: Part
1 | Part
2 | Part
3 | Part
4
Number of
Cantatas
Cantats in
Church
Various Other Topics
Bach's Message
Baroque Dance
Music
Spurious Bach Works
Romantic Bach
Kyrie Eleison
Bach Query
Various Discussions
Mass
Mailing Lists
Bach Cantatas Mailing List (BCML): Year
2003 | Year
2004 | Year
2005 | Year
2006 | Year
2007 | Year 2008: Part
1 | Part
2 | Year
2009 | Year
2011
Bach_Cantatas
Mailing List
Bach Musicology Mailing
List (BMML)
BeginnersBach
Mailing List
Choral Talk
Bach Tatoo |
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Subjects of Cantatas & Motifs in Cantatas
Death in Bach Cantatas
Humour in Bach’s Vocal
Works
Cantatas & Arias for
Wedding
Cantatas for Funeral
Bach for Kids
Bach and Opera
Motifs in Bach Cantatas
Satires on Bach Cantatas
Imagery in Bach's Vocal
Works
Events in the Church Year
| Church Music
Practice
Ascension
Cantatas for
Reformation
Impromptus: Bach’s
Themes
Vespers
Tunes in Bach's Vocal
Works
Bach & Sex
Bach Theme (Query)
Cantatas as Drama |
Members of the Bach Mailing Lists & Contributors
to the BCW
Members of the BCML/BRML/BMML: Year
1999 | Year
2000 | Year
2001 | Year
2002 | Year
2003 | Year
2004-1 | Year
2004-2 | Year
2004-3 | Year
2005-1 | Year
2005-2 | Year
2005-3 | Year
2006 | Year
2007 | Year
2008 | Year
2009 | Year
2010 | Year
2011
My First Cantata
Uri Golomb
Wim Huisjes - in Memoriam
Kurt Jensen
Julian Mincham
Profiles of Members & Contributors: Page
1 | Page
2 | Page
3 | Page
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Aryeh Oron |
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Prepared by Aryeh Oron
(November 2000 - December 2011) |
