The Keyboard Music of J.S. Bach

The Keyboard Music of J.S. Bach provides an introduction to and comprehensive discussion of all the music for harpsichord and other stringed keyboard instruments by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). Often played today on the modern piano, these works are central not only to the Western concert repertory but to musical pedagogy and study throughout the world. Intended as both a practical guide and an interpretive study, the book consists of three introductory chapters on general matters of historical context, style, and performance practice, followed by fifteen chapters on the individual works, treated in roughly chronological order. The works discussed include all of Bach's individual keyboard compositions as well as those comprising his famous collections, such as the Well-Tempered Clavier, the English and French Suites, and the Art of Fugue.

David Schulenberg

1 Bach's Keyboard Music: An Introduction 2 Some Performance Issues 3 Bach's Style and Its Development in the Keyboard Works 4 The Early Suites 5 The Early Fugues 6 Miscellaneous Early Works 7 The Manualiter Toccatas 8 The Concerto Transcriptions 9 The Virtuoso Fugues 10 The Clavier-Büchlein vor Wilhelm Friedemann Bach and Related Works 11 The Well-Tempered Clavier, Part 1 12 The Well-Tempered Clavier, Part 2 13 The English Suites 14 The French Suites 15 Clavierübung, Part 1: Th e Six Partitas 16 Clavierübung, Part 2, and Other Works 17 The Clavierübung Continued 18 Th e Musical Offering and the Art of Fugue