Butt John (ed.) The Cambridge companion to Bach

Cambridge University Press, 1997. — 315 p.List of plates
Notes on contributors
List of abbreviations
Chronology of Bach’s life
Introduction John Butt
The historical context: society, beliefs and world-view
The Bach family (Malcolm Boyd)
Bach and the domestic politics of Electoral Saxony (Ulrich Siegele)
Music and Lutheranism (Robin A. Leaver)
Bach’s metaphysics of music (John Butt)
‘A mind unconscious that it is calculating’? Bach and the rationalist philosophy of Wolff, Leibniz and Spinoza (John Butt)
Profiles of the music
The early works and the heritage of the seventeenth century (Stephen A. Crist)
The mature vocal works and their theological and liturgical context (Robin A. Leaver)
The instrumental music (Werner Breig)
The keyboard works: Bach as teacher and virtuoso (Richard D. R Jones)
Composition as arrangement and adaptation (Werner Breig)
Bachian invention and its mechanisms (Laurence Dreyfus)
Influence and reception
Bach as teacher and model (Stephen Daw)
Changing issues of performance practice (George B. Stauffer)
Bach reception: some concepts and parameters (Martin Zenck)
Reinterpreting Bach in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (Martin Zenck)
Notes
Select bibliography
General Index
Index of works by J. S. Bach