Table of Contents

List of illustrations
Abbreviations
Part 1 Introduction to Bach's cantatas
1: History of the cantata before Bach
2: Development of the Bach Cantata
3: Performance pratice in Bach's cantatas
Part 2 Church Cantatas
1: Cantatas for the church year: Advent to Trinity
2: Cantatas for the church year: First to Twenty-seventh Sunday after Trinity
3: The Marian Feasts
4: The Feast of St John the Baptist
5: The Feast of the Archangel Michael
6: The Reformation Festival
7: Church and Organ Consecration
8: Council Elections
9: Weddings
10: Funerals
11: Various occasions
Part 3 Secular Cantatas
1: Festive music for the courts of Weimar, Wessenfels, and Cothen
2: Festive music for the Electoral House of Saxony
3: Festive music for Leipzig University celebrations
4: Festive music for Leipzig council and school celebrations
5: Leipzig music of homage for nobles and burghers
6: Weddings
7: Various occasions
Appendix: Doubtful and spurious cantatas
Bibliography
Indices

About the Author

Alfred Dürr is one of the principal editors of the Neue Bach Ausgabe in which he edited 'Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier'. He holds honorary doctorates of music at Baldwin-Wallace College, Ohio and at Oxford University.
; Richard Jones is a Bach scholar who has been a music editor, writer and teacher since 1980. He studied at the University of Oxford and has taught at the universities of Cardiff and Sheffield. In 1997 he became the editor of the piano grade exam pieces for the Associated Board.

Reviews

For students studying Bach's cantatas, this book is the best reading material currently available. This is a book that every university library must have on its shelf. Bach Bibliography Book Review