The organ music of J.S. Bach

Author(s)

• Williams, Peter F

Bibliographic Information

The organ music of J.S. Bach

by Peter Williams

（Cambridge studies in music）

Cambridge University Press, 1980-1984

• v. 1
• v. 2
• v. 3

Note

Includes bibliographies and indexes

Contents of Works

• 1. Preludes, toccatas, fantasias, fugues, sonatas, concertos and miscellaneous pieces (BWV 525-598, 802-805 etc.)
• 2. Works based on chorales (BWV 599-771 etc.)
• 3. A background

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

v. 1 ISBN 9780521217231

Description

These paperback editions makes Peter Williams's influential scholarship available to a wider field of readers, including those with an interest in the ever-expanding discussions of original instrumentation and its implications for modern performance. Professor Williams examines Bach's organ works piece-by-piece, reconstructing for the present-day performer and listener the original context of the work. Form and style are analysed, with abundant musical examples and frequent allusions to the views of other commentators. Each volume contains a preface, calendar, lists of musical sources and references, and an index.

Volume

v. 3 ISBN 9780521244121

Description

This book, first published in 1984, is the third volume of Peter Williams' important reference work, The Organ Music of J. S. Bach. In this volume, Peter Williams lays before the reader the salient points that serve as an appropriate bckground to the pieces: notes on the church services of the area in question (Thuringia - Saxony), the fitful tradition of recitals, the duties of organists, the composer's indebtedness to former and contemporary styles in music, his knowledge of organs, the relevance (often over-valued today) of theorists, details of the instruments he was acquainted with and what can be assumed about the way they were registered and played. Throughout, the author has aimed to present a background to this music and its playing and has avoided stepping into areas of high conjecture, such as chronology or how specific pieces are to be played.

Table of 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.

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Details

• NCID: BA07028930
• ISBN:
  • 0521217237
  • 052121517X
  • 0521244129
• LCCN: 77071431
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: 3 v.
• Size: 26 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : MT145.B14
  • DC : 786.6/22/4
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. Organ music
  • LCSH : Organ music -- Analysis, appreciation
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00133970