rss...Bach could be viewed as a musical cul-de-sac within the history of the eighteenth century itself: he did little to extend the musical vocabulary of his age, and his music hardly served as a basis for that of the succeeding generation. Yet what has made him a summit for many is his apparent ability to transcend historical contingency, somehow to stop the clock of outward progress and to rearrange and recreate the world as he knew it. - John Butt
2006, May 22
Chorales - the English Translations
This is a repost of an earlier entry. I had to delete the original as it was comment spammed. People often ask for English words for the chorales. This book has the largest set of singable translations into English, by C.S. Terry.
Instrum/voices code: va01 vc01 vd01 vf01
Author: Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750.
Title: [Chorales. English & German]
Title: The four-part chorals of J. S. Bach, with the German
text of the hymns and English translations. Edited
with an historical introduction, notes and critical
appendices by Charles Sanford Terry.
Imprint: London, New York, Oxford University Press [1964]
Physical Description: xxv, close score (539 p.) facsims. (incl. music) port. 27 cm.
Note: “First published 1929. Reprinted (with a new foreword) 1964.”
Subject (LC): Chorales.
Subject (Other): SP8 CSUG AMLG
Added author: Terry, Charles Sanford, 1864-1936.
MUSIC CALL NUMBER COPY LOCATION
1)M3.1 .B11 C52T 1964 1 SCORES
