یوهان سباستین باخ: آثار و تأثیر او بر موسیقی آلمان، ۱۶۸۵-۱۷۵۰ (جلد سوم) (کتاب‌های داور دربارهٔ موسیقی: آهنگسازان)

This monumental study of Johann Sebastian Bach ranks among the great classics of musicology. Since its first publication in 1873–80, it has remained the basic work on Bach and the foundation of later research and study. The three-part treatment describes in chronological sequence practically everything that is known of the composer's life: his ancestry, his immediate family, his associations, his employers, and the countless occasions on which his musical genius emerged. Author Philipp Spitta accompanies this biographical material with quotations from primary sources: correspondence, family records, diaries, official documents, and more. In addition to biographical data, Spitta reviews Bach's musical production, with analyses of more than 500 pieces, covering all the important works. More than 450 musical excerpts are included in the main text, and a 43-page musical supplement illustrates longer passages. Despite the scholarly nature of this work, it also has the rare distinction of being a study that can be read with considerable enjoyment and great profit by every serious music lover, with or without a substantial background in the history of music or musical theory. Frontmatter BOOK VI. THE FINAL PERIOD OF BACH'S LIFE AND WORK. I. DISPUTES WITH ERNESTI. THE COLLEGIUM MUSICUM. THE ORIGIN OF THE CONCERT (page 3) II. BACH'S MASSES. THE MASS IN B MINOR (page 25) III. THE LATER CHORALE CANTATAS (page 64) IV. THE CHORALE COLLECTIONS. THE ECCLESIASTICAL MODES, AND BACH'S RELATIONS TOWARDS THEM (page 108) V. WORKS OF THE LAST (LEIPZIG) PERIOD. CONCERTOS. THE LATER WORKS FOR CLAVIER AND ORGAN (page 135) VI. BACH'S PRIVATE FRIENDSHIPS AND PUPILS; HIS GENERAL CULTURE. BLINDNESS AND DEATH (page 222) APPENDIX (A, TO VOL. III.) (page 279) APPENDIX B (page 296) MUSICAL SUPPLEMENT (page 363) INDEX (page 407) ERRATA (page 421) Volume 3 of monumental three-volume study of Bach, foundation of all later scholarship. Detailed information on almost everything known about Bach's life and family; also perceptive analyses of all important compositions-over 500 pieces-with more than 450 musical excerpts. Scholarly, yet can be read with profit by any serious music lover. Republication of 1885 English translation by Clara Bell and J. A. Fuller-Maitland.