(Bass Instruction). Now available with a companion CD Three duets and five solo pieces arranged for bass. The CD will help players facilate mastery of these pieces, by providing accompaniment for the duets and allowing the listener to hear all of the bass parts. All pieces are arranged and performe[...]

(Instrumental). These great play-along book/CD packs for solo instrumentalists include 12 classics from the beloved composer: Air from Suite No. 3 in D * Bouree * Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major, First Movement Excerpt * Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major, First Movement Excerpt * Brandenbu[...]

(Piano Solo Mixed Folio). A fine selection of both original works for piano and arrangements of some of Bach's most famous works, now including 2 CDs with full performances of all the pieces Includes Two-Part Inventions, "In Tears of Grief" from the St. Matthew Passion, and Air on a G String .[...]

In the last decades of the 17th century, the feast of Christmas in Lutheran Germany underwent a major transformation when theologians and local governments waged an early modern "war on Christmas," discouraging riotous pageants and carnivalesque rituals in favor of more personal and internalized exp[...]

This is the second of a two-volume study of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Taking into account the vast increase in our knowledge of the composer due to the Bach scholarship of the last sixty years, Richard Jones presents a vivid and in some respects radically new picture of his creative develo[...]

This is the second of a two-volume study of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Taking into account the vast increase in our knowledge of the composer due to the Bach scholarship of the last sixty years, Richard Jones presents a vivid and in some respects radically new picture of his creative develo[...]

Long esteemed as counterpoint's greatest master, Johann Sebastian Bach created harmonizations of chorales that have served as voice-leading models for generations. This affordable volume features 371 of the composer's harmonized chorales, presented in closed score for easy study as well as play.
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A monument in the history of Western music, "The Well-Tempered Clavier" represents not only the culmination of J. S. Bach's own maturation process but also the impetus for the emerging style and structure of modern keyboard music. Mozart, Beethoven, and Chopin were influenced by its polyphonic richn[...]