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1. Welcome to The Global Bach Community Home Page
- www.bach-net.org
- Welcome to The Global Bach Community, a site devoted to linking and supporting local Bach organizations worldwide.
2. The American Bach Society
- www.americanbachsociety.org
- Home • Administration • Membership • History • Bach Notes • Meetings • Publications • Grants and prizes • Links • Illustrations .
- The American Bach Society.
- New: Bach Notes No. ...
- The American Bach Society was founded in 1972 to support the study, performance, and appreciation of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach in the United States and Canada.
- The ABS produces Bach Notes and other publications, sponsors a biennial meeting and conference, and offers grants and prizes for research on Bach.
- On this site you can also find links to other Bach organizations and to Bach festivals, as well as a small selection of interesting Bach illustrations.
- © 1998-2003 by The American Bach Society.
3. Dr Edward Bach Centre bach Flower flower Remedies remedies Essences essences courses books education training
- www.bachcentre.com
- Mount Vernon, England - the home of the Bach Flower Remedies.
- Our work is steadfastly to adhere to the simplicity and purity of this method of healing - Dr Edward Bach, 1936.
- Books and much more on the Bach remedies .
- Bach Foundation Registered Practitioners .
- Edward Bach .
- Bach remedies for animals .
- The Dr Edward Bach Centre // The Dr Edward Bach Foundation // The Dr Edward Bach Healing Trust.
- This is the home page run from the Dr Edward Bach Centre, Mount Vernon, Oxfordshire, England. Mount Vernon was the home and workplace of Dr Bach in the last years of his life, when he completed his research into the flower remedies that still bear his name.
- Ensuring that the mother tinctures are made properly is of course one of the most important things the trustees and helpers at the Bach Centre do. In addition, Mount Vernon has become the world centre for education and information on Dr Bach's work, including publications and referral to practitioners. The Centre is open to visitors, and in everything we do we aim to maintain the simplicity and purity of Dr Bach's work, in the way he intended.
- Try the main remedies page and the Bach FAQ's first, then if you have a specific question that isn't answered please contact us.
- The Dr Edward Bach Centre, Mount Vernon, Bakers Lane, Sotwell, Oxon, OX10 0PZ, UK.
4. Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Institut Göttingen
- www.bach-institut.de
- Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Institut Göttingen.
- Neue Bach-Ausgabe.
- Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Instituts Göttingen! .
- Hier finden Sie Informationen über unsere Arbeit, insbesondere über die "Neue Bach-Ausgabe", die wissenschaftliche Gesamtausgabe der Werke J. ...
- Informationen zu Werken Johann Sebastian Bachs sowie zu den handschriftlichen Quellen finden Sie im Internet in dem am Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Institut erstellten .
- "Göttinger Bach-Katalog". ...
- Februar 2005: Newsletter über Neuerungen des Göttinger Bach-Kataloges (Inhalt).
- August 2004: Newsletter über Neuerungen des Göttinger Bach-Kataloges (Inhalt).
- Besetzung, Bearbeitung und Aufführungspraxis bei Johann Sebastian Bach, Klaus Hofmann zum 65. ...
- 2004: Im Rahmen der Arbeiten am Göttinger Bach-Katalog liegen detaillierte Handschriften-Beschreibungen der Bach-Quellen aus dem Besitz des Göttinger Bach-Institut mit WZ-Scans und Schriftproben vor (s. ...
- Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Institut Göttingen.
5. Johann Sebastian Bach
- w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750).
- He was the youngest son of Johann Ambrosius Bach, a town musician, from whom he probably learnt the violin and the rudiments of musical theory. ...
- After competing unsuccessfully for an organist's post in Sangerhausen in 1702, Bach spent the spring and summer of 1703 as 'lackey' and violinist at the court of Weimar and then took up the post of organist at the Neukirche in Arnstadt. ... Blasius, Mühlhausen, and four months later married his cousin Maria Barbara Bach in nearby Dornheim. Bach was appointed organist and chamber musician to the Duke of Saxe-Weimar in 1708, and in the next nine years he became known as a leading organist and composed many of his finest works for the instrument. ... When, in 1717, Bach was appointed Kapellmeister at Cöthen, he was at first refused permission to leave Weimar and was allowed to do so only after being held prisoner by the duke for almost a month. ...
- Bach's new employer, Prince Leopold, was a talented musician who loved and understood the art. Since the court was Calvinist, Bach had no chapel duties and instead concentrated on instrumental composition. ... In 1720 Maria Barbara died while Bach was visiting Karlsbad with the prince; in December of the following year Bach married Anna Magdalena Wilcke, daughter of a court trumpeter at Weissenfels. ... In 1722 Bach entered his candidature for the prestigious post of Director musices at Leipzig and Kantor of the Thomasschule there. ...
- Bach remained as Thomaskantor in Leipzig for the rest of his life, often in conflict with the authorities, but a happy family man and a proud and caring parent. ...
- From about 1729 Bach's interest in composing church music sharply declined, and most of his sacred works after that date, including the b Minor Mass and the Christmas Oratorio, consist mainly of 'parodies' or arrangements of earlier music. ... For these Bach arranged harpsichord concertos and composed several large-scale cantatas, or serenatas, to impress the Elector of Saxony, by whom he was granted the courtesy title of Hofcompositeur in 1736. ...
- Among the 13 children born to Anna Magdalena at Leipzig was Bach's youngest son, Johann Christian, in 1735. In 1744 Bach's second son, Emanuel, was married, and three years later Bach visited the couple and their son (his first grandchild) at Potsdam, where Emanuel was employed as harpsichordist by Frederick the Great. At Potsdam Bach improvised on a theme given to him by the king, and this led to the composition of the Musical Offering, a compendium of fugue, canon, and sonata based on the royal theme. Contrapuntal artifice predominates in the work of Bach's last decade, during which his membership (from 1747) of Lorenz Mizler's learned Society of Musical Sciences profoundly affected his musical thinking. The Canonic Variations for organ was one of the works Bach presented to the society, and the unfinished Art of Fugue may also have been intended for distribution among its members. ...
6. The London Bach Society - Main Page
- www.bachlive.co.uk
- The London Bach Society.
- The London Bach Society is the UK's premier Bach society, bringing the music of Johann Sebastian Bach 'live' to both the devoted follower and curious newcomer for over 50 years.
- On this site you will be able to subscribe to the free mailing list, get details of the next Bachfest, find out more about the Steinitz Bach Players, or discover how you can support the LBS in an individual or corporate role.
- The composer Robert Schumann wrote about Bach: .
- (Translation from The New Bach Reader, p. ...
- This web site is supported by the Friends of the London Bach Society. ...
- © 2004 London Bach Society.
7. On Bach and the curved bow
- www.music.princeton.edu
- On Bach and the curved bow.
- Bach's suites for unaccompanied cello are noteworthy because of cellist Michael Bach's use of a curved bow. This bow is essentially identical in both theory and design to the one known in the violin literature as the "Bach bow" (named for the composer, not the cellist); both are products of a particular line of thinking about the works for unaccompanied stringed instruments. ... Because of the curve of the violin's bridge, no more than two strings can be played at the same time, so that the three- and four-note chords found in Bach's music must be played in some other fashion. ...
- The violin Bach bow -- like its larger sibling, the curved cello bow -- was designed in exactly this way, with a widely-curved wood piece and a mechanism, operated by the thumb, that allows for the bowhair tension to be varied as needed. ...
- If such a bow was in use in Bach's day, then his sustained chords were quite playable, just as they appear on the page: all notes sounded simultaneously, all notes sustained for the full duration. The musicologist Arnold Schering first suggested in 1904 that this was the historical solution to the problem of the Bach unaccompanied violin pieces; a flood of musicological rebuttals soon followed. ... With the expansion of musicological studies on Baroque performance practice in the middle part of this century, and with the subsequent fashion for "authentic" instruments, the Bach bow has fallen into obscurity. ... ("The 'Bach' bow succeeds in playing Bach's violin music only in the image of its 20th-century inventors, not as Bach intended or heard it. ...
- "Every one who has heard these solo violin sonatas must have realised how sadly his material enjoyment of them falls below his ideal enjoyment," Schweitzer wrote in his comprehensive 1908 study of Bach's music. For Schweitzer, there was no question but that Bach meant for the chords to be played as simultaneities and not as arpeggios. He declared arpeggiation "a particularly bad effect, even in the finest playing," and he could not allow that Bach would have "overstepped the bounds of artistic possibility. " On this basis, Schweitzer built the argument that violinists must have had bows that allowed them to play the chords all at once: anything else sounds bad, and Bach would not write something that sounded bad. ...
- Schweitzer heard performances of the Bach unaccompanied violin works in which such a bow was used, and hence could report with authority on the musical effect it gave. ... " Playing with the curved bow allows for a quieter and subtler style of Bach playing, a style that Schweitzer found particularly beautiful and true. ...
- Poking through the general Bach literature, I picked up a copy of Karl Geiringer's 1966 survey of Bach's music. This book was not written specifically as an opposition to Schweitzer's, but as it turns out, Geiringer's views of Bach and of the curved bow are almost diametrically opposed to Schweitzer's. Geiringer's vision of Bach is heroic: "Johann Sebastian Bach: The Culmination of an Era" his title proclaims, and everywhere in this book we encounter his image of Bach the Titan. His presentation of the solo violin works is an account of drama and decisive action: "Bach, a born fighter who exulted in overcoming apparently unsurmountable difficulties, succeeded in doing the nearly impossible: to write four-part fugues and polyphonic variations for an instrument the violin whose very nature seems to exclude such devices. ...
8. The Bach Choir of Bethlehem
- www.bach.org
- BACH AT NOON.
- On Tuesday, March 8th at noon, The Bach Choir of Bethlehem will have their third performance of Bach At Noon. Come hear an ensemble from The Choir and members of the Bach Festival Orchestra perform for free at he Central Moravian Church. ...
- Bach’s Cantata BWV 106 "Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit".
- This remarkable program will feature The Choir’s first performance of Johannes Brahm’s largest and most celebrated choral work as well as a reprisal of our 2004 Festival performance of Bach’s intimate funeral Cantata BWV106 "Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit". ...
- The high point of our perfomance calendar, the 98th Annual Bach Festival will kick off May 6th. ...
- MAKE A JOYFUL NOISEthe one hour PBS documentary on The Bach Choir has been awarded an Emmy for Best Documentary for the Mid-Atlantic Region. ...
- The Bach Choir of Bethlehem is the oldest Bach choir in America. Founded in 1898, The Bach Choir gave the first complete performances in the United States of The Mass in B Minor and The Christmas Oratorio. ... The 95 volunteer members sing with the dedication and enthusiasm of The Bach Choir of a century ago, but todays performances, featuring the finely-honed vocal ensemble, a fully professional orchestra, and world-renowned soloists, reveal a new level of musicianship and understanding of Bachs choral universe. ...
- About the Choir | Support the Choir | Bach to School | Bach 101 | Mailing List.
9. About Bach Bibliography
- www.music.qub.ac.uk
- Bach Bibliography .
- Bach references appear very frequently. ...
- In September 2000, I read a paper at International Bach Symposium Utrecht 2000 (Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands) entitled "Setting up Research Resources for the future: On-line Bach Bibliography Project and International Collaboration", in which I outlined the details of my future plan of its expansion. ... Enter the Bach Bibliography.
- Bach Bibliography is currently accessible from six different sites, as shown below: Interface.
- com/bach/.
- bach. ...
- jp/~bach/.
10. Teri Noel Towe's Johann Sebastian Bach Pages: Index Page
- www.rainbowflag.com
- The Johann Sebastian Bach Pages at the Teri Noel Towe Home Pages.
- Johann Sebastian Bach ca. ...
- Johann Sebastian Bach .
- This remarkable photograph is not a computer generated composite; the original of the Weydenhammer Portrait Fragment, all that remains of the portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach that belonged to his pupil Johann Christian Kittel, is resting gently on the surface of the original of the 1748 Elias Gottlob Haussmann Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach.
- The Face Of Bach - A Website Devoted to the Portraits of Johann Sebastian Bach.
- A Previously Unknown Portrait From Life of Johann Sebastian Bach - The Search for the Long Lost Portrait That Belonged to Johann Christian Kittel .
- My 1997 Page on the Bach Portraits - Now A Historical Document Because It is The Page That Led To The Discovery Of The Weydenhammer Portrait Fragment.
- The Critical Discographies of Three Major Sacred Works of Sebastian Bach Included in Choral Music On Records.
- Present Day Misconceptions About Bach Performance Practice in the Nineteenth Century - The Evidence of the Recordings.
- Sebastian Bach's Handwriting .
- Links - Bach and Non-Bach .
- Johann Sebastian Bach ca. ...
- The Johann Sebastian Bach Pages at the Teri Noel Towe Home Pages are PPP Free web pages.
- The Johann Sebastian Bach Pages at the Teri Noel Towe Home Pages have received.
11. Bach's Method of Transcription
- www.delmar.edu
- Bach's Method of Transcription.
- Bach is a sizeable number of transcriptions. A rather neglected part of the Bach repertory, these transcriptions have only recent y gained more respectability and interest among scholars and performers. Their impact on the area of performance practice and the study of Bach's compositional process is evident in a number of notable studies. ...
- Perhaps one of the most neglected of Bach's works in this genre is the relatively obscure clavier transcription (BWV 964) of the A minor Sonata for solo violin (BWV 1003). One of only four surviving clavier sonatas by Bach, the work is a fascinating essay in the art of transcription and is particularly instructive for guitarists as it provides a first-hand look at the concerns and priorities that influenced Bach's compositional process, and resolves some of the more problematical aspects of adapting Bach's music for the guitar. How much, for instance, should technical considerations influence musical content? To what extent do different instrumental idioms play a part in Bach's musical thinking?.
- It will focus primarily on melodic and harmonic differences, concentrating on textural changes, voice leadings, bass alterations, and chordal voicings Two points of particular interest to guitarists concern the practical reasons for these changes and the extent to which Bach's compositional style was influenced by extramusical factors.
- A favorite device used by Bach to compensate for the lack of tonal sustain on instruments such as the clavier, or the lute, is to decorate cadential points with arpeggios. ...
- In addition to added single notes and arpeggios, Bach also incorporates ornaments into the melody. ...
- Unencumbered by such constraints, the clavier afforded Bach more flexibility in both melodic and harmonic invention, an opportunity he evidently exploited in the transcription.
- In the process, Bach inserts an additional note to complete the arpeggio. ... The passage also exposes one of the many myths pertaining to Bach's melodies in his unaccompanied string writing. 3 The "self-contained" melody of Bach is essentially the result of compressing a contrapuntal texture into one line, chiefy through ambiguous notation.
- These examples pose another question: Was the counterpoint implicit at its time of conception or did it suggest itself at the time of transcription? Perhaps the answer may lie in Bach's compositional procedures. ... Bach said of his father: "If I exclude some of his clavier pieces, he composed everything else without instrument, but later tried it out on one. ...
12. Tradition and Individual Style in the Motets of J. S. Bach
- web.calstatela.edu
- BACH.
- The extant motets of Johann Sebastian Bach provide examples of Bach's distinctive composing techniques as he applied them to the traditional motet style of the Baroque period. The study is a comparison of Bach's motets to the traditional Lutheran motet style as it was known in the Baroque period and will highlight similarities as well as differences.
- By Bach's time, however, they had become either music for special occasions or served as introduction to the service following the organ prelude.
- Bach were written, motets were used as an introduction to the main morning service and at vespers (6, 2: 597). ... Bach was not expected to provide this -minor part of the service. Indeed, these motets were conducted by the student prefect and sung by the "motet choir", which Bach considered his second best (3, 295). ... Some of Bach's motets can be positively identified as pieces for funeral services. ...
- )Bach followed tradition in choosing his German texts from the Bible or religion poetry of the Lutheran chorales. ... Bach adds an "Alleluja" movement as the second concluding section of the motet. ...
- Bach chose texts which comforted the bereaved by reminding them of the happiness of the departed in God's presence.
- The source of the text of the first chorus is not known and it is possible Bach may have written it himself. ...
- The motet, Jesu, meine Freude has been definitely proved to have been written for a funeral service but Bach chose another method of textual elucidation for this work. ...
- Five of Bach's motets were written for double choirs and his treatment of these choirs is at variance with the prevailing practice. ... Bach treated his choirs as equals in vocal range and difficulty (7, 180).
- Bach's motets were sung in the church at the commemorative service which followed the funeral at the grave site (8, 94). ...
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