Taking account of Bach scholarship of the past twenty-five years, the first two volumes of Peter Williams's classic study of Bach's organ works are fully revised. This work is a piece-by-piece commentary on this ever-popular repertoire, demonstrating the music's unique qualities and how we might hear and play it today. The book follows the order of the Bach catalog (BWV): beginning with the sonatas, followed by the "free works" and the chorales, and ending with the doubtful works, including the "newly discovered chorales" of 1985.
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"This masterful revision of a book first published in 1980 confirms Peter Williams's towering status in the field. The book is a wonderful reference and guide for the performer and scholar alike." Times Literary Supplement, Martin J. Smith
"This work belongs in every organist's library. The analysis progresses in order of the BWV listings, and every work is thoroughly examined in light of the most recent and highest scholarship. The foundation of every organist's repertoire is Bach, and this work will shed some new light and perhaps provide new interpretive inspiration on many familiar works." - Music Educators Journal, "For Your Library"
"This work belongs in every organist's library. The analysis progresses in order of the BWV listings, and every work is thoroughly examined in light of the most recent and highest scholarship. The foundation of every organist's repertoire is Bach, and this work will shed some new light and perhaps provide new interpretive inspiration on many familiar works." - Music Educators Journal, "For Your Library"
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Taking account of Bach scholarship of the past twenty-five years, Peter Williams's classic study of Bach's organ works is fully revised. It provides a piece-by-piece commentary on this ever-popular repertoire, demonstrating the music's unique qualities and how we might hear and play it today. The book follows the order of the Bach catalog (BWV), beginning with the sonatas, followed by the "free works" and the chorales, and ending with the doubtful works, including the "newly discovered chorales" of 1985.
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This is a transcription of the last forty-five bars of the final chorus of Cantata 131 (1707), whose opening and closing movements are, unusually, a prelude and fugue, the latter a permutation fugue of three subjects (Example 1). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
final pedal point, careful fair copy, sine pausa, organ motet, pedal cues, pedal motif, final pedal entry, giusti intervalli, opening pedal point, tonic entry, obbligato melody, quaver lines, ritornello shape, alla breve counterpoint, inversus forms, irregular exposition, cantus line, tonic entries, suspirans figure, octave imitation, crotchet lines, pedal phrase, pedal reed, figura corta, other chorales Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Allein Gott, Six Sonatas, Herr Jesu Christ, Art of Fugue, Jesus Christus, Gottes Sohn, Lamm Gottes, Goldberg Variations, Musical Offering, Herre Gott, Johann Ernst, Heiden Heiland, Herr Gott, Ach Gott, Golden Section, Holy Ghost, Lord God, Christmas Oratorio, Frescobaldi's Fiori, Johann Sebastian Bach, Kauffmann's Harmonische Seelenlust, Anna Magdalena, Gott Vater, Herr Christ, Lpz Poel New!
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This is a transcription of the last forty-five bars of the final chorus of Cantata 131 (1707), whose opening and closing movements are, unusually, a prelude and fugue, the latter a permutation fugue of three subjects (Example 1). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
final pedal point, careful fair copy, sine pausa, organ motet, pedal cues, pedal motif, final pedal entry, giusti intervalli, opening pedal point, tonic entry, obbligato melody, quaver lines, ritornello shape, alla breve counterpoint, inversus forms, irregular exposition, cantus line, tonic entries, suspirans figure, octave imitation, crotchet lines, pedal phrase, pedal reed, figura corta, other chorales Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Allein Gott, Six Sonatas, Herr Jesu Christ, Art of Fugue, Jesus Christus, Gottes Sohn, Lamm Gottes, Goldberg Variations, Musical Offering, Herre Gott, Johann Ernst, Heiden Heiland, Herr Gott, Ach Gott, Golden Section, Holy Ghost, Lord God, Christmas Oratorio, Frescobaldi's Fiori, Johann Sebastian Bach, Kauffmann's Harmonische Seelenlust, Anna Magdalena, Gott Vater, Herr Christ, Lpz Poel New!
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- Goldberg Variations: Piano Solo (Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics) by Ralph Kirkpatrick on 9 pages
- Johann Sebastian Bach the Learned Musici by Christoph Wolff in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Johann Sebastian Bach, Vol. 1 by Philipp Spitta on page 195, and Back Matter
- Organ Music (Dover Music for Organ) by Johann Sebastian Bach in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Bach Perspectives, Volume 1 by Bach Perspectives in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Inside Early Music: Conversations with Performers by Bernard D. Sherman on page 160, page 178, and page 361
- J.S. Bach's Great Eighteen Organ Chorales by Russell Stinson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- J.S. Bach's Great Eighteen Organ Chorales by Russell Stinson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Social and Religious Designs of J. S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos by Michael Marissen in Back Matter
- New Mattheson Studies by George J. Buelow in Back Cover
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