Bach, Johann Sebastian B Composers Composition

Bach, Johann Sebastian B Composers Composition

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) helped define the Baroque period and is possibly the greatest master of musical counterpoint who ever lived. Contemporaries left record of his virtuoso organ playing while a combination of desire and economic necessity led him to produce one of the largest bodies of music by any one person.

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J.S. Bach (1685-1750) - Brief chronology, partial list of works with MIDI audio for selected BMV numbers, gallery, and contact information.
Classical Music Archives: J.S.Bach - Over 1500 complete compositions in MIDI, MP3, and Windows Media audio formats, including live recordings of featured artists. Includes two biographies, time line, download and playing instructions, and links to artist pages.
Johann Sebastian Bach - Hymn tunes by him or based on his works with MIDI audio and NWC format scores plus portrait. From the Cyberhymnal.
Dave's J.S. Bach Works Catalog - Complete works catalog, directory of internet resources, recommended recordings, MIDI and RealAudio files, images, icons, links, and a monthly quiz and CD giveaway.
Exeter Bach Society - News of Bach concerts in the Cathedral which support its Music Foundation Trust. Includes contact and membership information and an events diary.
Well-Tempered Clavier - Index summarizing fugue-by-fugue analysis drawing comparisons from visual arts, physics, mathematics, literature and astronomy. Links to scores with digital sound and many resources on the life and works of Bach, designed for a course at Northern Arizona
J. S. Bach Texts - Complete vocal works with English translations. Limited permission to copy in programs and program notes.
J.S. Bach Home Page - An extensive biography, tour of Bach's life in Germany, catalog of his works, bibliography, recommended recordings, and links. Award-winning site, maintained by Jan Hanford in North America and Jan Koster in Europe.
Riemenschneider Bach Institute - Archive and research institute at Baldwin-Wallace College. Organization, contact, and journal subscription information provided, along with links and festival details.
Bach's Life in Pictures - Color illustrations with captions and music samples documenting the major periods in Bach's life.
mfiles - Johann Sebastian Bach - Biography and music examples in the form of sheet music and sound files.
Rifkin's Pesky Idea - Reprinted article examines the possibility that Bach used one singer per part rather than a larger choir in many of his vocal works.
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) - brief biography, caricature, summaries of his choral and vocal, organ, other keyboard, chamber, orchestral, and concerto output, and Naxos discography.
Bach Central Station - A large directory of J.S. Bach resources on the internet.
Music of Intellect: Bach's Goldberg Variations - Detailed study of the intellectual and psychological dimensions of one of these works. Includes MIDI audio samples plus pianistic information about Schoenberg, Schumann, and Mari Kumamoto.
Dorset Bach Cantata Club - Information for amateur singers and orchestral players wishing to join a long-established choir and orchestra for weekend study and performance of Bach cantatas and related works.
Bach Bibliography - A searchable catalogue of books, articles, theses, papers and facsimile editions on the works of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Bach's organ works complete BWV listing - Complete BWV listing of Bach's Organ Works with links to CD recordings on Silbermann Organs from the Baroque Music Club.
Early Music Myths - Paul Baker of Diabolus in Musica uses the music of Bach to illustrate perceived problems and solutions to various performance issues, including choir size and instrument choice.
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685 - 1750), Germany - Biographical data, recommended CDs, books and sheet music, bibliography, and links to biographical essays from Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers.
Classic Cat - Directory of free Bach mp3s made available by the performing artists.
The London Bach Society - Provides newsletter, details of the annual Bach festival, history of the organisation, database of his works and details of sponsership and membership.
BACHorgan.com - Dedicated to building a community of those who love the Bach's pipe organ music. Includes biography, workshops, tributes, organ schools and purchase information, clip art, jokes, sheet music, recording and book sales, and links.
Grave of Johann Sebastian Bach - Find a Grave details the burial, reburial, and subsequent moving of the composer's remains to Thomaskirche, Leipzig, Germany with portrait of composer and photographs of grave plate and church exterior.
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician - Review of the biography by Christoph Wolff details the book's contents and points out highlights.
The Well Tempered Clavier: Music of Sacred Temperament - Exploration of the intellectual and spiritual dimensions of the works involved. Includes MIDI audio samples.
Emmanuel Music - Founded in 1970 by Craig Smith to perform the complete cycle of over 200 sacred cantatas of J.S. Bach in the liturgical setting for which they were intended. Includes extensive translations and program notes.
On Bach and the Curved Bow - A review of Michael Bach's performance of Bach's solo cello suites (Mode Records) using a curved cello bow which allows him to play chords without arpeggiation. Review considers the significance and historical implications of the curved bow in the perform
The Industrious Herr Bach - Biography, timeline, quotes, key works, suggested recordings and reading, selected works, and links from Humanities Web.
Bach's Leipzig in pictures, 1725-1750 - Contemporary prints of Bach's Leipzig showing familiar scenes and some lesser-known facets of Leipzig city life, institutions and facilities. Of unusual interest is the city's piped fresh water supply.
Johann Sebastian BACH Cantata 198: The Trauer Ode. - Mourning Ode on the death of Queen Christiana of Poland/Saxony, 1727. Illustrated history, full text, and music samples.
Bach, Johann Sebastian - Musical biography with early influences, summaries of instrumental talents, professional positions, and compositions, historical significance, and partial list of works from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.
Bach, Mozart, and the Musical Midwife - Speculation preceding examination of known facts about Amadeus transcribing music by Sebastian. Includes looks at other related composers and certain theoretical studies.
Well-Tempered Clavier: Hypermedia Analysis - Analytical essays and animations by Tim Smith, performance-related essays by David Korevaar, and Korevaar's performances of the music. [Shockwave]
Bach-Archiv Leipzig - "Our purpose is to collect and examine literary and documentary material about the life, work and history of Johann Sebastian Bach and his family - and to present his work to the public through exhibitions, lectures, guided tours and publications.&qu
The Global Bach Community - An organization devoted to linking and supporting local Bach organizations worldwide.
Oregon Bach Festival - A summer festival held in Eugene, Oregon directed by Helmuth Rilling. Booking information and schedules of concerts and master classes.
J. S. Bach: His Predecessors - Gives overview of his influences, including the German and Italian keyboard schools, French polyphony and organ music, as well as mathematics.
Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750 - Basic information on the composer. Drop-down menu allows focus on specific periods of his life. Links to lives of other composers.
Schering's Wacky Theory - Joshua Rifkin defends his own ideas on Bach's use of single-voiced choir parts by way of scholar Arnold Schering.
Johann Sebastian Bach's Achievement - Article examining the role the composer's works had in helping to reunite a Europe torn by post-Reformation conflict even as it became the standard upon which almost all subsequent Western music was based.
J.S. Bach Archive and Bibliography - Biographical information, pictures and the full texts of over forty cantatas.
Tradition and Individual Style in the Motets of J. S. Bach - Essay examines how the composer expanded this musical genre within the context of its existing form.
Biography of J.S. Bach - Brief sketch of his life, focusing on his rapidity of composition and technical skills both in playing and maintaining various instruments.
Bach's Notation of Tempo and Early-Music Performance: Some Reconsiderations - Revisitation of the ongoing debate among factions of early music artists attempts to ascertain the more "historically correct" time signature for the composer's works. Includes endnotes, chart, and links.
Acoustic Illusions: Endlessly Rising Canon - Stefan Scheller demonstrates the illusion of the Shepard Effect using Bach's Canon per Tonus. Includes links, credits, theoretical discussion, and illustration using M. C. Escher.
J. S. Bach: Canons and Fugues - Tim Smith's studies of the composer's life and music, concentrating on the contrapuntal music.
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) - Listing at the Lied and Art Songs Text Page with German lyrics, many having English translations.
Musica Classica: Johann Sebastian Bach - Classical music dictionary entry with life, works, catalogue, illustrations, and MIDI audio files.
Music History 102: Johann Sebastian Bach - Biography, illustrations, and Real Audio RAM files from the Internet Public Library. Written by Robert Sherrane, Cataloging librarian The Juilliard School, New York.

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