This is the only English translation of this important book by the world's most distinguished Bach scholar.

The cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach are among the best known and most frequently performed musical works of the Baroque period. In an illuminating discussion

This volume contains parallel texts and translations of all Bach's church and secular cantatas that have come down to us complete. The volume also includes a sh

Bach's cantatas are among the highest achievements of Western musical art, yet studies of the individual cantatas that are both illuminating and detailed are fe

A thorough and invaluable reference for students of music, church groups, listeners and performers, this work translates the libretti, or text, of each of 253 s