Asynchronous Thursday Activities

 Analysis Projects {Gallery}

Analytical Resources and Digital Scores

1. CHORALE
   
• For study:
• The Four-Part Chorales of J.S. Bach {Dahn 2021}
2. CANON
   
   • For study:
   • Puzzle canons, BWV 1072-78
   • Concordia discors, BWV 1086 {BD}
   • 14 canons, BWV 1087 {BD}
   • Autograph score: BnF: Gallica
     
   • Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 {BD}
   • Open Goldberg: Kimiko Ishizaka, piano {SF: YouTube; Website}
   • The 10 canons of the Musical Offering, BWV 1079 {BD}
   • See also:
     
   • The 5 canonic variations on Vom Himmel hoch da komm' ich her, BWV 769 {BD}
   • The 4 canons of The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 (see FUGUE)
3. INVENTION
• For study:
• Inventions, BWV 772-87 {BD; WP}
• Open Edition: Contrapunctus Press  {IMSLP} (Florence 2021)
4. FUGUE
   
   • For study:
   • The Well-Tempered Clavier (WTC): Book 1, BWV 846-869 {BD; WP}
     • Score Viewer (BGA) {IU Variations Project}
       
     • Open WTC: Kimiko Ishizaka, piano {SF: YouTube; Website}
     • Rother, An open score edition of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier {OpenUCT}
     • Manuscript {Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin}
   • Musical Offering, BWV 1079 {BD; WP}
   • The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 {BD; WP}
   • José Rodríguez Alvira, The Art of Fugue {Teoria; Scores in PDF format: Teoria}
     

Research Tools

1. FindIt @ UofSC
2. Dictionaries: Harvard Dictionary | Grove/Oxford
3. Articles: JSTOR
4. E-books: Ebook Central | EBSCOhost | Hathi Trust
   
5. Scores: CPDL; IMSLP; Alexander Street
   
6. Recordings: Naxos | Spotify | YouTube
   

Archives, Catalogues, Editions and Sources

1. Bach Archiv Leipzig {WP}
2. Bach Digital {BD; WP}
   
3. Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (BWV) {WP}
4. Collected Works
• Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe (BGA) {WP; IMSLP}
• Neue Bach Ausgabe (NBA) {WP; Baerenreiter}

Bach Journals

1. BACH: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute {JSTOR}
2. Bach Perspectives
3. Understanding Bach Web Journal

Music Theory Journals

Online Media Resources

1. Algomus {Algomus.fr}
• Computational Analysis of Bach Fugues
2. Ambrose, Texts of the Complete Vocal Works with English Translation and Commentary
   
3. Cope, Experiments in Music Intelligence (EMI)
   
• 5000 works in the style of J.S. Bach (See also: Garcia 2015)
  
4. Christiansen, Earsense
   
• 48 Jewels: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 and Book 2
  
5. Cuthbert, music21: A Toolkit for Computer-Aided Musicology
6. Dahn, Bach-chorales.com: The Four-Part Chorales of J.S. Bach
• Sortable Index of Chorales by J.S. Bach
  
7. Edwards, Puzzle Canon
   
8. Emmanuel Music
9. Gjerdingen, Monuments of Partimenti {Partimenti.org}
10. Gran, Counterpoint Tutorials {YouTube Channel}
• Species Counterpoint {YouTube Playlist}
• Tonal Voice Leading {YouTube Playlist}
  
• Imitative Counterpoint {YouTube Playlist}
11. Humdrum Data Format
• CCARH, KernScores
• Sapp, Bach-370-Chorales
12. Kerman, The Art of Fugue: Bach Fugues for Keyboard, 1715-1750 {Open JSTOR; Luminos} (Kerman 2015)
    
13. Ishizaka
• Open Goldberg
  
• Open WTC, Book 1
  
• The Art of Fugue {Bandcamp}
  
14. Lawrence, Bach and Friends (Lawrence 2010)
    
15. Oron, Bach Cantatas Website
    
16. Malinowski, Music Animation Machine
• Bach {YouTube Playlist}
  
• Art of Fugue {YouTube Playlist}
17. Netherlands Bach Society (NBS), All of Bach
• St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 {NBS; YouTube}
• 15 Inventions, BWV 772-786 {NBS; YouTube}
  
• Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 {NBS; YouTube}
  
• Musikalisches Opfer, BWV 1079 {NBS; YouTube Playlist}
• See also: All of Bach Docs. {YouTube Channel}
18. Rotem, Early Music Sources
    
19. Smith, The Canons and Fugues of J.S. Bach
• Fugues of the Well-Tempered Clavier – See Digital Bach archive {YouTube Channel}

Bibliographies