The Organ Music of J. S. Bach Volume 3 A Background

Contents

• Preface
• Maps
• Part I . The Music in Service and Recital:
• 1. The order of services
• 2. Hymns, hymnbooks and singing
• 3. Organ chorales as preludes
• 4. Organ chorales as and with interludes
• 5. The duties of organists
• 6. Organist-trials
• 7. Recitals
• Part II . The Music and its Composition:
• 8. The arts of composing or improvising organ chorales
• 9. Affektenlehre, rhetoric and 'symbolism'
• 10. Figurenlehre as a background to composition
• 11. Italian influences
• 12. French influences
• 13. Niedt's and Mattheson's praeludia
• 14. Influences on the preludes and fugues: further remarks
• 15. Bicinia
• Part III . The Music and its Organ:
• 16. The 'Bach organ'
• 17. J. S. Bach's organ reports
• 18. Registration
• 19. Organo pleno
• 20. Two manuals
• 21. Temperament questions
• 22. Harpsichord questions
• 23. The Music and its Performance: 23. Certain details of performance: articulation and legato
• 24. Fingering
• 25. Ornaments
• 26. Certain details of performance: finals, fermatas and repeats
• 27. Pedals and pedalling
• 28. Three-stave notation
• Additions and corrections: Volume i
• Volume II
• Notes on MSS cited
• List of references
• Index of names
• Index of BWV works cited
• Title index of BWV numbers in volumes I-III.