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Johann Sebastian Bach - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach
Wikipedia article covering formative years, professional life and family life, later years, and legacy with BWV commentary, further reading, internal references, external links, and portrait. |
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J.S. Bach Home Page - http://www.jsbach.org/
An extensive biography, tour of Bach's life in Germany, catalog of his works, bibliography, recommended recordings, and links. Award-winning site, maintained by Jan Hanford in North America and Jan Koster in Europe. |
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Johann Sebastian Bach - http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/bachjs.html
Classical music pages article from The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music. Also links to related composers and topics, including cantatas, orchestral music, instrumental music, illustrations, list of works, and bibliography. |
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Classical Music Archives: J.S.Bach - http://www.classicalarchives.com/bach.html
Over 1500 complete compositions in MIDI, MP3, and Windows Media audio formats, including live recordings of featured artists. Includes two biographies, time line, download and playing instructions, and links to artist pages. |
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Bach-Archiv Leipzig - http://www.bach-leipzig.de/
"Our purpose is to collect and examine literary and documentary material about the life, work and history of Johann Sebastian Bach and his family - and to present his work to the public through exhibitions, lectures, guided tours and publications." Site in English and German. |
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Oregon Bach Festival - http://bachfest.uoregon.edu/
A summer festival held in Eugene, Oregon directed by Helmuth Rilling. Booking information and schedules of concerts and master classes. |
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Bach Bibliography - http://www.music.qub.ac.uk/~tomita/bachbib/
A searchable catalogue of books, articles, theses, papers and facsimile editions on the works of Johann Sebastian Bach. |
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Bach Central Station - http://www.jsbach.net/bcs/
A large directory of J.S. Bach resources on the internet. |
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Johann Sebastian Bach - http://www.baroquemusic.org/bqxjsbach.html
Detailed biography, covering each period in Bach's life. |
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Dave's J.S. Bach Works Catalog - http://www.jsbach.net/catalog/index.html
Complete works catalog, directory of internet resources, recommended recordings, MIDI and RealAudio files, images, icons, links, and a monthly quiz and CD giveaway. |
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J. S. Bach: His Predecessors - http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/articles/bachjs/predcssr.html
Gives overview of his influences, including the German and Italian keyboard schools, French polyphony and organ music, as well as mathematics. |
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Bach's Leipzig in pictures, 1725-1750 - http://www.baroquemusic.org/bachleipzig.html
Contemporary prints of Bach's Leipzig showing familiar scenes and some lesser-known facets of Leipzig city life, institutions and facilities. Of unusual interest is the city's piped fresh water supply. |
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Acoustic Illusions: Endlessly Rising Canon - http://cips02.physik.uni-bonn.de/~scheller/acoustic-illusions/main.html
Stefan Scheller demonstrates the illusion of the Shepard Effect using Bach's Canon per Tonus. Includes links, credits, theoretical discussion, and illustration using M. C. Escher. |
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BACHorgan.com - http://www.bachorgan.com
Dedicated to building a community of those who love the Bach's pipe organ music. Includes biography, workshops, tributes, organ schools and purchase information, clip art, jokes, sheet music, recording and book sales, and links. |
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Bach's Life in Pictures - http://www.baroquemusic.org/bachillustrated.html
Color illustrations with captions and music samples documenting the major periods in Bach's life. |
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Johann Sebastian BACH Cantata 198: The Trauer Ode. - http://www.baroquemusic.org/198trauerode.html
Mourning Ode on the death of Queen Christiana of Poland/Saxony, 1727. Illustrated history, full text, and music samples. |
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The Well Tempered Clavier: Music of Sacred Temperament - http://www.geocities.jp/imyfujita/index.html
Exploration of the intellectual and spiritual dimensions of the works involved. Includes MIDI audio samples. |
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The London Bach Society - http://www.bachlive.co.uk/
Provides newsletter, details of the annual Bach festival, history of the organisation, database of his works and details of sponsership and membership. |
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Johann Sebastian Bach - http://www.hoasm.org/IX/IXBach.html
Biography, musicography, links to related composers, and companion resources from the Here Of A Sunday Morning radio program. |
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Johann Sebastian Bach - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001925/
Filmography linked to hundreds of films and television shows using his works with biography, trivia, and links from the Internet Movie Database. |
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mfiles - Johann Sebastian Bach - http://www.mfiles.co.uk/composers/johann-sebastian-bach.htm
Biography and music examples in the form of sheet music and sound files. |
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Music History 102: Johann Sebastian Bach - http://www.ipl.org/div/mushist/bar/bach.htm
Biography, illustrations, and Real Audio RAM files from the Internet Public Library. Written by Robert Sherrane, Cataloging librarian The Juilliard School, New York. |
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Dorset Bach Cantata Club - http://uk.geocities.com/dbcclub/index.html
Information for amateur singers and orchestral players wishing to join a long-established choir and orchestra for weekend study and performance of Bach cantatas and related works. |
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Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750 - http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Choir/3228/Bach/index.html
Basic information on the composer. Drop-down menu allows focus on specific periods of his life. Links to lives of other composers. |
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Bach's organ works complete BWV listing - http://www.baroquecds.com/organtable.html
Complete BWV listing of Bach's Organ Works with links to CD recordings on Silbermann Organs from the Baroque Music Club. |
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Classic Cat - http://www.classiccat.net/bach_js/index.htm
Directory of free Bach mp3s made available by the performing artists. |
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The Global Bach Community - http://www.bach-net.org
An organization devoted to linking and supporting local Bach organizations worldwide. |
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Music of Intellect: Bach's Goldberg Variations - http://www.geocities.jp/imyfujita/goldberg/indexe.html
Detailed study of the intellectual and psychological dimensions of one of these works. Includes MIDI audio samples plus pianistic information about Schoenberg, Schumann, and Mari Kumamoto. |
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Bach, Mozart, and the Musical Midwife - http://schillerinstitute.org/music/m_rasmus_801.html
Speculation preceding examination of known facts about Amadeus transcribing music by Sebastian. Includes looks at other related composers and certain theoretical studies. |
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Emmanuel Music - http://www.emmanuelmusic.org
Founded in 1970 by Craig Smith to perform the complete cycle of over 200 sacred cantatas of J.S. Bach in the liturgical setting for which they were intended. Includes extensive translations and program notes. |
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Musica Classica: Johann Sebastian Bach - http://www.karadar.it/Dictionary/bach.html
Classical music dictionary entry with life, works, catalogue, illustrations, and MIDI audio files. |
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Rifkin's Pesky Idea - http://www.bsherman.org/oneperpart.html
Reprinted article examines the possibility that Bach used one singer per part rather than a larger choir in many of his vocal works. |
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Early Music Myths - http://www.diabolus.org/myths/myths.htm
Paul Baker of Diabolus in Musica uses the music of Bach to illustrate perceived problems and solutions to various performance issues, including choir size and instrument choice. |
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Bach's Notation of Tempo and Early-Music Performance: Some Reconsiderations - http://www.bsherman.org/bachtempo.htm
Revisitation of the ongoing debate among factions of early music artists attempts to ascertain the more "historically correct" time signature for the composer's works. Includes endnotes, chart, and links. |
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Johann Sebastian Bach - http://www.deccaclassics.com/music/composers/bach.html
Biography emphasizing personality and relationships as well as musical abilities from Decca. |
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Schering's Wacky Theory - http://www.bsherman.org/Scherings.htm
Joshua Rifkin defends his own ideas on Bach's use of single-voiced choir parts by way of scholar Arnold Schering. |
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Johann Sebastian Bach's Achievement - http://www.fermentmagazine.org/essays/jsbach1.html
Article examining the role the composer's works had in helping to reunite a Europe torn by post-Reformation conflict even as it became the standard upon which almost all subsequent Western music was based. |
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Tradition and Individual Style in the Motets of J. S. Bach - http://www.calstatela.edu/centers/Wagner/bach.htm
Essay examines how the composer expanded this musical genre within the context of its existing form. |
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Biography of J.S. Bach - http://users.tellurian.net/tom/jsbach/index.htm
Brief sketch of his life, focusing on his rapidity of composition and technical skills both in playing and maintaining various instruments. |
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J.S. Bach (1685-1750) - http://chuchristine.tripod.com/
Brief chronology, partial list of works with MIDI audio for selected BMV numbers, gallery, and contact information. |
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A Study of the Texts of J.S. Bach's Motets - http://homepage3.nifty.com/dikaios/CMstudy/English/papers/B-Motets.htm
Tad Inoue of Japan provides an English version of a research paper dealing with the source material and characteristics of the lyrics with an evaluation of these writings. |
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Johann Sebastian Bach - http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/b/a/c/bach_js.htm
Hymn tunes by him or based on his works with MIDI audio and NWC format scores plus portrait. From the Cyberhymnal. |
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Exeter Bach Society - http://members.aol.com/exbach/
News of Bach concerts in the Cathedral which support its Music Foundation Trust. Includes contact and membership information and an events diary. |
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Bach, Johann Sebastian - http://www.wqxr.com/cgi-bin/iowa/cla/learning/grove.html?record=589
Musical biography with early influences, summaries of instrumental talents, professional positions, and compositions, historical significance, and partial list of works from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio. |
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Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) - http://www.naxos.com/composerinfo/52.htm
brief biography, caricature, summaries of his choral and vocal, organ, other keyboard, chamber, orchestral, and concerto output, and Naxos discography. |
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Johann Sebastian Bach - http://www.cosmopolis.ch/english/cosmo7/boydbach.htm
Review of the biography by Malcolm Boyd. Emphasizes the book's strengths, including early influences that triggered his creative outbursts. |
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Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician - http://www.cosmopolis.ch/english/cosmo7/wolffbach.htm
Review of the biography by Christoph Wolff details the book's contents and points out highlights. |
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Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685 - 1750), Germany - http://stevenestrella.com/composers/composerfiles/bach1750.html
Biographical data, recommended CDs, books and sheet music, bibliography, and links to biographical essays from Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers. |
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The Industrious Herr Bach - http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=c&p=c&a=i&ID=31
Biography, timeline, quotes, key works, suggested recordings and reading, selected works, and links from Humanities Web. |
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Johann Sebastian Bach - http://hymnuts.luthersem.edu/hcompan/writers/bach.htm
City-by-city musical biography with hymn tunes, cantatas, organ chorales, and bibliography from Hymnuts. |
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Riemenschneider Bach Institute - http://www.bw.edu/~bachinst
Archive and research institute at Baldwin-Wallace College. Organization, contact, and journal subscription information provided, along with links and festival details. |
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Grave of Johann Sebastian Bach - http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=4237
Find a Grave details the burial, reburial, and subsequent moving of the composer's remains to Thomaskirche, Leipzig, Germany with portrait of composer and photographs of grave plate and church exterior. |
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Johann Sebastian Bach - http://www.kunstderfuge.com/bach.htm
Detailed biography and comments on his music from Grove Music plus MIDI audio, illustrations, and links from Kunst der Fuge. |
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J. S. Bach: Canons and Fugues - http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~tas3/bachindex.html
Tim Smith's studies of the composer's life and music, concentrating on the contrapuntal music. |
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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) - http://www.carolinaclassical.com/bach/index.html
Detailed biography of the life of J.S. Bach with links to many of his Cantata scores as Adobe PDF files. |
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Bist Du bei Mir: BWV 508 - http://www.carolinaclassical.com/articles/bach1.html
An essay on the controversy over authorship of the religious song Be Thou with Me. Janet I. Wasserman argues that it originates with Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel and was later adapted by Bach. |
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Bach's Method of Transcription - http://www.delmar.edu/music/bachtran.html
Study of his compositional ideas using the clavier transcription (BWV 964) of the A minor Sonata for solo violin (BWV 1003). Includes musical notation to illustrate the author's points. |
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Well-Tempered Clavier: Hypermedia Analysis - http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~tas3/wtc.html
Analytical essays and animations by Tim Smith, performance-related essays by David Korevaar, and Korevaar's performances of the music. [Shockwave] |
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Well-Tempered Clavier - http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~tas3/wtc
Index summarizing fugue-by-fugue analysis drawing comparisons from visual arts, physics, mathematics, literature and astronomy. Links to scores with digital sound and many resources on the life and works of Bach, designed for a course at Northern Arizona University. |
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The Oboe and the Oboe d'amore in Bach's Church Cantatas - http://idrs.colorado.edu/Publications/Journal/JNL6/bach.html
A well documented examination of Bach's possible oboists, as well as the instrument's range and notational problems, covering compositions from Mülhausen to Leipzig. |