rssBach may be important not just as a supreme historical figure in western culture, who did what he could with what he had, but also in the way he epitomises a particular mode of thinking, a complex of beliefs about how the world coheres that almost amounts to a musical form of holism. - John Butt
2009, October 12
Bibliography
Bibliography of sources for cantata articles
New project: Bach scholars avoid making commitments regarding many of the dates of the early cantatas. That said, I plan to listen to the cantatas in the order of the chronology on Simon Crouch's website. I will post each cantata as I listen. These are the reference books I will be using while listening to the cantatas; in each post I will list the CDs I have used. Here is a list, with links, of all the sources I have used for the chorales and the cantatas.
Johann Sebastian Bach, The Complete Cantatas
(Kassel, Barenreiter, 1999-2007) Catalog number TP 2004; 19 volumes, each volume has ISMN
W. Gillies Whittaker, The Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978), ISBN 0 19 315238 X.
Charles Sanford Terry, Bach's Chorals Volume Two: The Hymns and Hymn Melodies of the Cantatas and Motets
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1917)
Alfred Dürr, The Cantatas of J.S. Bach
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), ISBN 0 19 929776 2
Simon Crouch, "Cantatas - Chronological Listing"
Aryeh Oron et al, "Bach Cantatas Index to Recordings & Discussions"
Craig Smith and Pamela Dellal, "Bach Cantatas Notes and Translations", From Emmanuel Music, Boston
Christoph Wolff, ed., The World of the Bach Cantatas
(Oxford: W.W. Norton and Co., 1995), ISBN 0 393 04106 9
Gerhard Herz, ed., Bach Cantata No. 4 Christ lag in Todesbanden
(New York: W.W. Norton, Critical Scores, 1967), ISBN 0 393 09761 7
Gerhard Herz, ed., Bach Cantata No. 140 Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme
(New York: W.W. Norton, Critical Scores, 1972), ISBN 0 393 09555 X
Eric Thomas Chafe, Analyzing Bach Cantatas
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), ISBN 0 19 512099 X
Lawrence Dreyfus, Bach's Continuo Group
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987), ISBN 0 674 06030 X
Robert L. Marshall, The Music of Johann Sebastian Bach: The Sources, the Style, the Significance
(New York: Schirmer Books, 1989), ISBN 0 02 871782 1
Malcolm Boyd, ed., J.S. Bach Oxford Composer Companion
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), ISBN 0 19 866208 4
John Butt, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Bach
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), ISBN 0 521 58780 8
