'Instrumental and Vocal Polyphony at Its Peak' ( Art of Fugue, Canons and Musical Offering, B-Minor Mass), and closing 'Praxis cum theoria' (Maxim of the Learned Musician). 'In Critical Survey and Review Mode' (Late Revisions, Transcriptions, Reworkings: 'Great 18' and Six 'Schübler' Chorales for Organ, Harpsichord Concertos, Kyrie-Gloria Masses, Well-Tempered Clavier Book II), and 8. 'A Grand Liturgical Messiah Cycle' (oratorios: John, Matthew and Mark Passions Christmas, Easter, Ascension), 7. 'Proclaiming the State of the Art in Keyboard Music' (Clavier-Übung, four published keyboard exercises), 6. 'The Most Ambitious of All Projects' (sacred Chorale Cantata Cycle), 5. 'In Search of the Autonomous Instrumental Design' (Toccata, Suite, Sonata, Concerto), 4. 'Transformative Approaches to Composition and Performance' (Three Unique Keyboard Works), 3. 'Revealing the Narrative of a Musical Universe' (Works List 1750), 2. The eight chapters with prologue and epilogue focus on the introductory 'On the Primacy and Pervasiveness of Polyphony,' Bach's compositional calling card eight chapters on the music: 1. 2īach's Musical Universe explores most of Bach's music as found in collections compiled chronologically by Bach and fully revealed from this perspective for the first time. This is an unparalleled trilogy involving Bach 1999 scholarly English-language documentation with an updated commentary from Wolff the most significant new biography with an emphasis on the formative, learned influences as well as new information across the breadth and depth of Bach studies and now the companion study of Bach's music within narrative and biographical context, focusing on the major collections of instrumental and vocal music. Norton) include the magisterial biography, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, 2000 (Update 2013), and The New Bach Reader: A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents, 1999 (see ). Foremost is Christoph Wolff's new Bach musical study, Bach's Musical Universe: The Composer and His Work, 1 from probably the leading Bach scholar whose other significant previous contributions (all published by W.

As the third decade of the 21st century begins, the study of Bach is stimulated with major new publications.

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