The Cambridge Companion to Bach

Contents

• Part I . The Historical Context: Society Beliefs and World-View:
• 1. The Bach family Malcolm Boyd;
• 2. Johann Sebastian Bach in the context of domestic politics in Electoral Saxony Ulrich Siegele;
• 3. Music and Lutheranism Robin A. Leaver;
• 4. Bach's metaphysics of music John Butt;
• 5. 'A mind unconscious that it is calculating'? Bach and the rationalist philosophy of Wolff, Leibniz and Spinoza John Butt;
• Part II . Profiles of the Music:
• 6. The early works and the heritage of the seventeenth century Stephen A. Crist;
• 7. The mature vocal works and their theological and liturgical context Robin A. Leaver;
• 8. The instrumental music Werner Breig;
• 9. The keyboard works: Bach as teacher and virtuoso Richard D. P. Jones;
• 10. Composition as arrangement and adaptation Werner Breig;
• 11. Bachian invention and its mechanisms Laurence Dreyfus;
• Part III . Influence and Reception:
• 12. Bach as teacher and model Stephen Daw;
• 13. Changing issues of performance practice George B. Stauffer;
• 14. Bach reception: some concepts and parameters Martin Zenck;
• 15. Reinterpreting Bach in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Martin Zenck.