A Bach tribute : essays in honor of William H. Scheide / edited by Paul Brainard and Ray Robinson.

Other author Scheide, William H. (William Hurd), 1914-2014.
Other author Brainard, Paul.
Other author Robinson, Ray, 1932-2015
Format Book
Publication InfoKassel ; New York : Bärenreiter ; Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Hinshaw Music, Inc., 1993.
Description243 pages : illustrations, music, portrait ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Foreword. William H. Scheide, a tribute -- Bach's text settings, Schweitzer and Pirro revisited / Samuel Baron -- The "non-quoting" ritornello in Bach's arias / Paul Brainard -- Form problems in Bach's early organ fugues / Werner Breig -- The engravers of Bach's Clavier-Ubung II / Gregory Butler -- Bach's first two Leipzig cantatas, a message for the community / Eric Chafe -- Bach's knowledge of the Bible / Howard H. Cox -- Matters of kind, genre and subgenre in Bach's Well-tempered clavier, book I / Laurence Dreyfus -- On the earliest manuscripts and prints of Bach's Well-tempered clavier in England / Alfred Durr -- Thoughts on the New Grove Bach family / Gerhard Herz -- On the instrumentation of the E-major Suite BWV 1006a by Johann Sebastian Bach / Klaus Hofmann -- The Luke 2 portions of Bach's Christmas oratorio / J. Merrill Knapp -- Bach and the German Agnus Dei / Robin A. Leaver -- Missa and Messiah, culmination of the sacred drama / Alfred Mann -- Truth and beauty, J.S. Bach at the crossroads of cultural history / Robert L. Marshall -- Bach influences in the Penderecki St. Luke Passion / Ray Robinson -- Facsimiles as sources of error / Albi Rosenthal -- "O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht", on the transmission of a Bach source and the riddle of its origin / Hans-Joachim Schulze -- Present-day misconceptions about Bach performance practice in the nineteenth century, the evidence of the recordings / Teri Noel Towe -- The "Agnus Dei" of Bach's B-minor Mass, parody and new composition reconciled / Christoph Wolff -- Bibliography of the writings of William H. Scheide.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN92073240
ISBN093727612X (Hinshaw)
ISBN3761811799 (Bharenreiter)