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The Organ Music of J. S. Bach
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The Organ Music of J. S. Bach Hardcover - 2004 - 2nd Edition

by Peter Williams


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This is a completely revised edition of volumes I and II of The Organ Music of J. S. Bach (1980), a bestselling title, which has subsequently become a classic text. This new edition takes account of the Bach scholarship of the last 25 years. Peter Williams's piece-by-piece commentary puts the musical sources of the organ works in context, describing the form and content of each work and relating them to other music, German and non-German. He summarises the questions about the history, authenticity, chronology, function and performance of each piece, and points out important details of style and musical quality. The study follows the order of the Bach catalogue (BWV), beginning with the sonatas, then the 'free works', followed by chorales and ending with the doubtful works, including the 'newly discovered chorales' of 1985.

From the publisher

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.

First line

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).

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  • Title The Organ Music of J. S. Bach
  • Author Peter Williams
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 2nd
  • Edition 2
  • Pages 634
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press
  • Date January 26, 2004
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780521814164 / 0521814162
  • Weight 2.59 lbs (1.17 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.94 x 6.98 x 1.43 in (25.25 x 17.73 x 3.63 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Bach, Johann Sebastian, Organ music - Analysis, appreciation
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002067368
  • Dewey Decimal Code 786.509
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