Bach Studies

Contents

• Part I . Magnificat, Cantata and Passion:
• 1. On the origin of Bach's Magnificat: a Lutheran composer's challenge Robert L. Marshall;
• 2. Expressivity in the accompanied recitatives of Bach's cantatas George J. Buelow;
• 3. Aria forms in the Cantatas from Bach's first Leipzig Jahrgang Stephen A. Criss;
• 4. The regulative and generative roles of verse in Bach's 'thematic' invention Paul Brainard;
• 5. The St John Passion: theology and musical stricture Eric T Chafe;
• Part II . Parody and genre:
• 6. Bach's parody technique and its frontiers Alfred Mann;
• 7. Three organ-trio transcriptions from the Bach circle: keys to a lost Bach chamber work Russell Stinson;
• 8. 'This fantasia... never had its like': on the enigma and chronology of Bach's Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 903 George B. Stauffer;
• 9. French overture conventions in the hands of the young Bach and Handel Peter Williams;
• Part III . The Well-Tempered Clavier I and II:
• 10. The four conceptual stages of the Fugue in C Minor, WTC I Brick Siegele;
• 11. The genesis of the prelude in C Major, BWV 870 James A. Brokaw II;
• 12. Reconstructing the Urpartitur for WTC II: a study of the "London autograph" (BL Add. MS 35021) Don O. Franklin;
• Part IV . Transmission and reception: Bach in the eighteenth century Ludwig Finscher;
• 13. Tradition as authority and provocation: Anton Weburn's confrontation with Johann Sebastian Bach Martin Zenck;
• 14. The human side of the American Bach sources Gerhard Herz.