Introduction

pp 1-6

Part I - The historical context: society, beliefs and world-view

1 - The Bach family

pp 7-16

2 - Bach and the domestic politics of Electoral Saxony

pp 17-34

3 - Music and Lutheranism

pp 35-45

4 - Bach's metaphysics of music

pp 46-59

5 - ‘A mind unconscious that it is calculating’? Bach and the rationalist philosophy of Wolff, Leibniz and Spinoza

pp 60-72

Part II - Profiles of the music

6 - The early works and the heritage of the seventeenth century

pp 73-85

7 - The mature vocal works and their theological and liturgical context

pp 86-122

8 - The instrumental music

pp 123-135

9 - The keyboard works: Bach as teacher and virtuoso

pp 136-153

10 - Composition as arrangement and adaptation

pp 154-170

11 - Bachian invention and its mechanisms

pp 171-192

Part III - Influence and reception

12 - Bach as teacher and model

pp 193-202

13 - Changing issues of performance practice

pp 203-217

14 - Bach reception: some concepts and parameters

pp 218-225

15 - Reinterpreting Bach in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

pp 226-250

Notes

pp 251-293

Select bibliography

pp 294-305

General Index

pp 306-317

Index of works

pp 318-326