BAIN MUSC 726C

The Canons & Fugues of J.S. Bach

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Ambrose, Z. Philip. 2005. J.S. Bach: The Extant Texts of the Vocal Works in English Translations with Commentary: Volume 1: BWV 1-200; Volume 2: BWV 201-. Philadelphia: XLibris. {GBd; WEB}

Bach, C.P.E. 1949/1753. Essay On The True Art Of Playing Keyboard Instruments. Translated by William J. Mitchell. New York: Norton. {GB; IA}

Benjamin, Thomas. 2005. The Craft of Modal Counterpoint, 2nd ed. New York: Routledge. {GB; Full text: Ebook Central}

______________. 2003. The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint, 2nd ed. New York: Routledge. {GB; Full text: EBSCOhost; Ebook Central}

______________. 1986. Counterpoint in the Style of J.S. Bach. New York: Schirmer. {GBd}

Berry, Wallace. 1986. Form in Music, 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall. {GB}

Bruhn, Siglind. 1993. J.S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier: In-depth Analysis and Interpretation. Hong Kong: Mainer. {Gortz Edition}

Burstein, L. Poundie and Joseph N. Straus. 2020. A Concise Introduction to Tonal Harmony, 2nd ed.,  New York: Norton. {GB}

Butt, John. 1991. Bach: Mass in B Minor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. {GB}

________, ed. 1997. The Cambridge Companion to Bach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. {GB}

Boyd, Malcolm, ed. 1999. J.S. Bach. New York: Oxford University Press. {GB; Full text: Ebook Central}

Chafe, Eric. 2003. Analyzing Bach Cantatas. New York: Oxford University Press. {GB}

_________. 1991. Tonal Allegory in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach. Berkeley: University of California Press. {GB}

_________. 1984. "Allegorical Music: The 'Symbolism' of Tonal Language in the Bach Canons." The Journal of Musicology 3/4 (Autumn 1984): 340–362. {JSTOR}

Chiapusso, Jan. 2021/1980. Bach's World. Bloomington: Indiana University Press: Available online at: <https://publish.iupress.indiana.edu/projects/bach-s-world>.

Christensen, Thomas. 2002. The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. {GB}

Cope, David. 2005. Computer Models of Musical Creativity. Cambridge, MA. {GB}

Czarnecki, Christopher, ed. 2014. J.S. Bach 413 Chorales Analyzed: A Study of the Harmony of J.S. Bach. Solvay, NY:  Seezar Publications {GB}

David, Hans T. 1972. J. S. Bach's Musical Offering: History, Interpretation, and Analysis. Mineola, NY: Dover. {GB}

Dahn, Luke. 2021. The Four Part Chorales of J.S. Bach. Available online at: <https://www.bach-chorales.com>.

David, Hans T. and Arthur Mendel. 1966. The Bach Reader: A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents, Revised Edition. New York: Norton. {GB} (See also: Wolff, David and Mendel 1998)

Davidian, Teresa. 2015. Tonal Counterpoint for the 21st-Century Musician: An Introduction. New York: Rowan & Littlefield. {GB}

Du Sautoy, Marcus. 2009. Symmetry: A Mathematical Journey. New York: Harper Collins. {GB}

Dickinson, Alan. 1979/1956. Bach's Fugal Works: With an Account of Fugue Before and After Bach. New York:  Greenwood Press. {GB}

Dreyfus, Laurence. 1996. Bach and the Patterns of Invention. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. {GB}

Engels, Marjorie Wornell. 2006. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier: An Exploration of the 48 Preludes and Fugues. New York: McFarland. {GB}

Fux, Johann Joseph. 1965/1725. The Study of Counterpoint from Johann Joseph Fux's Gradus ad Parnassum, translated and edited by Alfred Mann. New York: W. W. Norton. {GB}

Gauldin, Robert. 2013/1995.  A Practical Approach to 18th Century Counterpoint. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press. {GB1; GB2}

_____________. 2004. "An Introduction to Species Counterpoint," in Harmonic Practice in Tonal Music, 2nd ed. New York: Norton, pp. A14-25. {GB}

Geldage, André. 1965/1901. Traité de la Fugue (Treatise on the Fugue). Translated and edited by Ferdinand Davis. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. {GB}

Girard, François. 1993. Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould. DVD. Culver City, CA: The Samuel Goldwyn Company. {WP}

Green, Douglass. 1993. Form in Tonal Music: An Introduction to Analysis, 2nd ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth. {GB}

Green, Douglass and Evan Jones. 2010. The Principles and Practice of Modal Counterpoint. London: Routledge. {GB; Full text: Ebook Central}

___________________________. 2010. The Principles and Practice of Tonal Counterpoint. London: Routledge. {GB}

Gould, Glenn. 1990. The Glenn Gould Reader. Edited with an Introduction by Tim Page. New York: Vintage Books. {GBd}

Groocock, Joseph. 2003. Fugal Composition: A Guide to the Study of Bach's '48'. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group. {GB}

Hofstadter, Douglas. 1999/1979. Gödel, Escher, Bach, 20th Anniversary ed. New York: Basics Books. {GB}

Huron, David. 2016. Voice Leading: The Science behind a Musical Art. Cambridge: MA, MIT Press. {GB}

Johnson, Theodore. 1982. An Analytical Survey of the Fifteen Two-Part Inventions by J. S. Bach. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. {GB}

Kellner, Herbert Anton. 1978. Was Bach a Mathematician?" The English Harpsichord Magazine 2/2. Available online at: <https://www.harpsichord.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/bachmath.pdf>.

Kennan, Kent. 1999. Counterpoint, 4th ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. {GBd}

Kerman, Joseph. 2015/2005. Art of Fugue: Bach Fugues for Keyboard, 1715–1750. Berkeley: University of California Press. {Full text: Open JSTOR; Luminos}

Kirnberger, Johann Philipp. 1982. The Art of Strict Musical Composition, translated by David Beach and Jurgen Thym. New Haven: Yale University Press. {GB; Internet Archive;}

Kostka, Stefan and Dorothy Payne. 2008. Tonal Harmony: With an Introduction to Twentieth-Century Music, 6th ed.. New York: McGraw Hill. {GB}

Laitz, Steven. 2016.
The Complete Musician: An Integrated Approach to Theory, Analysis and Listening, 4th ed. New York: Oxford University Press. {GB}

Lawrence, Michael. 2010. Bach and Friends. DVD. Michael Lawence Films. {mlfilms.com}

Leaver, Robin A., ed. 2016. The Routledge Research Companion to Johann Sebastian. New York: Taylor & Francis. {GB}

Ledbetter, David. 2002. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier: The 48 Preludes and Fugues. New Haven: Yale University Press. {GB; Full text: Ebook Central}

Lester, Joel. 1992. Compositional Theory in the Eighteenth Century. Cambridge: Harvard University of Press. {GB}

Mann, Alfred. 1987/1958. The Study of Fugue. Mineola, NY: Dover. {GB}

Marshall, Robert. 2003. Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Music. New York: Routledge. {GB; Ebook Central}

Marpurg, Friedrich Wilhelm. 2022/1754. Adbandlung von der Fuge (Treatise on Fugue). Translated by Jane Hines. Warsaw: The Fryderyk Chopin Institute. {FCI}

Marshall, Robert Lewis. 1972. The Compositional Process of J. S. Bach: A study of the autograph scores of the vocal works, Vol. 1. Princeton University Press. {GB}

McHose, Allen Irvine. 1947. The Contrapuntal Harmonic Technique of the 18th Century. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts. {Full text: HathiTrust}

Melamed, Daniel R. and Michael Marissen. 1998. An Introduction to Bach Studies. New York: Oxford University Press. {Full text: Ebook Central}

Milka, Anatoly. 2019. Rethinking J.S. Bach's Musical Offering. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. {GB; CSP}

Prout, Ebenezer. 1910. Analysis of J.S. Bach's Forty-Eight Fugues. London: Ashdown. {Full text: Internet Archive}

_____________. 1892. Fugal Analysis: A Companion to "Fugue". London: Augener. Full text: nternet Archive}

_____________. 1891. Double Counterpoint and Canon. London: Augener. Full text: Internet Archive}

_____________. 1891. Fugue. London: Augener. {Wikisource.org; Full text: Internet Archive}

Rameau, Jean-Philippe. 1971/1722. Treatise on Harmony, translated Philip Gossett. Mineola, NY: Dover. {GB}

Remeš, Derek. 2021. The Art of Preluding: Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Preludes in J. S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier I & II. Cazenovia, NY: The Leupold Foundation. {Intro.: YouTube}

___________. 2020. Compendium of Voice-Leading Patterns from the 17th and 18th Centuries to Play, Sing, and Transpose at the Keyboard. Lucerne, Switzerland: Music Hochschule. {Author's Website}

____________. 2020. "Thoroughbass, Chorale, and Fugue: Teaching the Craft of Composition in J. S. Bach’s Circle.” Ph.D. Dissertation, Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. {Author's Website}

Remeš, Derek. 2019. Realizing Thoroughbass Chorales in the Circle of J.S. Bach. Volume 1: Sources by J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, and D. Kellner,
with a Tutor by D. Remeš. Cazenovia, NY: The Leupold Foundation. {GB; Intro.: YouTube}

Rings, Steven. 2011. "Bach, Fugue in E major, Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II, BWV 878," in Tonality and Transformation. New York: Oxford University Press. {GB}

Rothgeb, John, ed. 1987. Counterpoint: A Translation of Kontrapunkt by Heinrich Schenker, Book I, translated by John Rothgeb and Jürgen Thym. Ann Arbor: Musicalia Press. {GB}

Salzer, Felix and Carl Schachter. 1989. Counterpoint in Composition: The Study of Voice Leading. New York: Columbia University Press. {GBd}

Schubert, Peter. 2008/1999. Modal Counterpoint, 2nd ed. New York: Prentice Hall. {
GB1; 1/e GB2}

Schubert, Peter and Christoph Neidhöfer. 2023/2006. Baroque Counterpoint. Expanded Edition. Buffalo, NY: State University of New York Press. {GB; 1/e: GB}

Schulenberg, David. 1999. The Music of J. S. Bach: Analysis and Interpretation. Omaha: University of Nebraska Press. {GB}

Selfridge-Field, Eleanor, ed. 1997. Beyond MIDI: The Handbook of Musical Codes. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. {GB}

Smith, Timothy A. 1996. The Canons and Fugues of J.S. Bach. No longer available. {See Digital Bach: YouTube Channel}

Spitta, Philipp. 1992/1884. Johann Sebastian Bach: His work and influence on the music of Germany, 1685-1750. Mineola, NY: Dover. {GB; Internet Archive}

Tatlow, Ruth. 2015. Bach's Numbers: Compositional Proportion and Significance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. {GB; Full text: EBSCOhost}

__________. 1991. Bach and the Riddle of the Number Alphabet. London: Cambridge University Press. {GB}

Tomita, Yo, Robin A. Leaver, and Jan Smaczny. 2013. Exploring Bach's B-Minor Mass. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. {GB; Full text: Ebook Central}

Turek, Ralph. 1995. Elements of Music: Concepts and Applications, Vol. 1, 2nd ed.. New York: McGraw Hill. {GB}

Tymoczko, Dmitri. 2011. A Geometry of Music : Harmony and Counterpoint in the Extended Common Practice. New York: Oxford. {GB; Full text: Ebook Central}

Varwig, Bettina. 2021. Rethinking Bach. New York: Oxford University Press. {GB; Full text: TCL}

Walker, Paul. 2000. Theories of Fugue from the Age of Josquin to the Age of Bach. Rochester: University Rochester Press. {GB}

White, Christopher. 2022. The Music in the Data: Corpus Analysis, Music Analysis, and Tonal Traditions. New York: Routledge. {Routledge}

Williams, Peter. 2016. Bach: A Musical Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. {GB; Full text: Ebook Central}

____________. 2007. Bach: A Life in Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. {GB; Full text: Ebook Central}

____________. 2003. The Organ Music of J.S. Bach, Revised Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. {GB}

____________. 2001. Bach: The Goldberg Variations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. {GB; Full text: Ebook Central}

Wolff, Christoph. 2020. Bach's Musical Universe: The Composer and His Work. New York: Norton. {GB; Audiobook Preview: YouTube}

_____________. 2000. The Learned Musician. New York: Norton. {GB}

Wolff, Christoph and Markus Zepf. 2012. The Organs of J. S. Bach: A Handbook, translated by Lynn Edwards Butler. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press. {GB; Full text: TCL}

Wolff, Christoph, Hans T. David, and Arthur Mendel. 1998. The New Bach Reader: A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents. New York: Norton. {GB} (See also: David and Mendel 1966)

Yearsley, David. 2002. Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. {GB}

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