Bach Studies: Liturgy, Hymnology, and Theology

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of contents
Examples
Figures
Tables
Preface
Abbreviations
Part I Liturgy
	1 Bach’s cantatas and the liturgical year
		The liturgical year
		Epistles and Gospels in Lutheran worship
		Epistles and Gospels, and the dissemination of Bach’s cantatas
		Epistles and Gospels in Lutheran culture
		The development of the cantata from the chanted lections
	2 Bach’s music and the Leipzig liturgy
		Churches and choirs
		Liturgical sources and studies
		Hauptgottesdienst
			Preparation
			Ministry of the Word
			Ministry of the Sacrament
			Dismissal
		Vespergottesdienst
		Bach as the leader of liturgical music
	3 Bach’s Agnus Dei compositions
		Historical background
		Lutheran eucharistic theology
		Bach’s Estomihi cantatas
		Agnus Dei combined with Kyrie
		Estomihi and Good Friday
		The Agnus Dei in the B-minor Mass
	4 Bach’s parody process: From cantata to Missa
	5 Bach and the cantata controversy of the early eighteenth century
		Cantata 82
		Cantata libretti
		Gottfried Ephraim Scheibel
		Opera in church
			One-affect-theory
		Bach and the “theatralische Stil”
		Bach’s poets
		Bach in collaboration with his poets
			Excursus: Cantata libretti published in Nuremberg 1728
Part II Hymnology
	6 Bach and Johann Christoph Olearius
		Johann Christoph Olearius, Arnstadt deacon
		Hanseatic journeys from Arnstadt
		Johann Christoph Olearius, pioneer hymnologist
		Liedpredigten
		Johann Christoph Olearius’s Dispositionen
		An Arnstadt chorale-based organ manual (1704)
		Olearius’s continuing influence in Bach’s later years
	7 Bach’s Christ lag in Todesbanden (BWV 4): Hymnology and chronology
		The evidence of the extant parts
		Textual variations in Bach’s libretto
		Olearius on Christ lag in Todesbanden and Bach’s libretto
		The Chorale Cantata (BWV 4)
	8 Bach’s Orgelbüchlein
		The manuscript: Deutsche Staatsbibliothek, Berlin. Mus. Ms. Bach P 283
		The question of chronology
		The overall plan of the Orgelbüchlein
		The Orgelbüchlein in relation to a Choralbuch
		Chorale preambling redefined
		The Neumeister Collection
		The influence of Pachelbel
	9 Bach and the hymnic aria
		Rist and Gerhardt
		Hymns and arias
		Did Bach distance himself from the traditional chorale?
	10 Bach and the letter codes of the Schemelli Gesangbuch
		Identification of chorale melodies
		Multiple texts and melodies
		Hymnals linked to specific chorale books
		Encoded keys
		Bach, Schemelli, and codes
		Coda
Part III Theology
	11 Bach and Pietism
		Some views of Bach and Pietism
		Lutheran Pietism
		Some comparisons of Pietists and Orthodox
			Christian Gerber (1660–1731)
			Valentin Ernst Löscher (1673–1749)
			Johann Jacob Rambach (1693–1735)
			Erdmann Neumeister (1671–1756)
		Pietism and Bach
	12 Bach, Gesner, and Johann August Ernesti
		Johann Matthias Gesner (1691–1761)
		Johann August Ernesti (1707–1781)
		Different approaches to curriculum reform
		The so-called “Präfektenstreit”
		Was the cause of the conflict about theology or music?
		Gesner’s footnote on Bach
		Gesner’s footnote in Leipzig
	13 Bach and Erdmann Neumeister
		Neumeister and Weissenfels
		Confession and Absolution
		Neumeister in Sorau and Hamburg
		Bach and Weissenfels
		Hamburg 1720
		Hamburg and Leipzig
	14 Bach’s Clavierübung III
		Reformation in Leipzig
		Luther’s preaching
		The Trinitarian preludes
		Luther’s catechisms
		The Large Catechism settings
		The Small Catechism settings
		The four Duets
			Pages in Vopelius
	15 Bach and anniversaries of the Reformation
		Historical background
		A Weimar Reformation Day cantata?
		The bicentenary of the Reformation, 1717
Bibliography
	Primary sources, before 1800
	Secondary sources
Index