TY  - BOOK
AU  - Spitta,Philipp
TI  - Johann Sebastian Bach: his work and influence on the music of Germany, 1685-1750 
AV  - ML410.S761.J643 1951 
PY  - 1951///
CY  - London
PB  - Novello
N1  - "Not merely ... a translation, but ... a revised and improved edition."; "Musical supplement": volume 3, pages 363-405; 1; Book I. Bach's ancestors : I. The Bach family from 1550-1626 --; II. The Bachs of Erfurt --; III. Heinrich Bach and his sons --; IV. Johann Christoph Bach and Johann Michael Bach --; V. Instrumental works of Christoph and Michael Bach --; Virgin Islands Johann Christoph Bach's sons --; Virgin IslandsI. Christoph Bach and his sons Book II. The childhood and early years of Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1707 : I. Early days, education, Ohrdruf and Luneberg, 1685 to 1703 --; II. Life at Weimar and Arnstadt, 1703-4, influence of Kuhnau, works for clavier and organ --; III. Visit to Lubeck, Buxtehude and his style, influence on Bach, 1704-5 --; IV. Bach's return to Arnstadt, and dispute with the consistory, his marriage with his cousin Book III. The first ten years of Bach's "mastership" : I. Bach at Muhlhausen, his religious opinions --; II. Bach at Weimar, his friends and companions --; III. The Weimar period, organ music, concertos, cantatas, etc. -- IV. Church music, analysis of the cantata form --; V. Bach's visits to various towns, some of his pupils --; VI. Cantatas written at Weimar to texts by Franck --; VII. At Meningen: Johann Ludwig Bach, at Dresden: organ works of the later Weimar period. Book IV. Cothen, 1717-1723 : I. Arrival at Cothen, death of Bach's first wife and journey to Hamburg in 1720, Reinken, Bach and Handel as organ-players --; II. Bach's clavier music, toccatas, his reform in fingering, adjustment of pitch, invention of the pianoforte, Bach as a teacher, the clavier-buchlein, inventionen und sinfonien --; III. Bach as a violinist, the suite and the sonata, works for violin, violoncello, flute, etc. -- IV. Bach's second marriage, change of posts, the French suites, the Wolhtemperirte Clavier Book V. Leipzig, 1723-1734 : I. Bach's appointment and installation as cantor at Leipzig --; II. The Thomasschule, duties of the cantor, state of music in Leipzig --; III. Bach's official duties as cantor, his dispute with the town council, and endeavours to improve the condition of the music, his letter to Erdmann, Gesner's appointment as rector of the school --; IV. The plan and arrangement of the church services in Leipzig, music used in it; the organs and Bach's treatment of accompaniments, difficulties of pitch and tune --; V. Kuhnau, the church cantata, texts by Neumeister and Picander, comparison of their merits, Bach's church cantatas, the "Magnificat" -- VI. Bach's cantatas (continued) -- VII. Passion music before Bach, the St. John Passion, the St. Matthew Passion --; VIII. Bach's compositions for Christmas, Easter, and Ascension --; IX. Bach's motets --; X. "Occasional" compositions; 2
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