Peter Williams (1937-2016) was an internationally renowned Bach scholar and performer. He held the first Chair in Performance Practice in Britain at the University of Edinburgh, where he was Director of the Russell Collection of Harpsichords and latterly Dean of Music. He was also the first Arts and Sciences Distinguished Chair at Duke University, North Carolina. He was the author of many books, including Bach, Handel, Scarlatti 1685-1985 (Cambridge, 1985), The Life of Bach (Cambridge, 2003) and J. S. Bach: A Life in Music (Cambridge, 2007).
Preface
Maps
Part I. The Music in Service and Recital: 1. The order of services
2. Hymns, hymnbooks and singing
3. Organ chorales as preludes
4. Organ chorales as and with interludes
5. The duties of organists
6. Organist-trials
7. Recitals
Part II. The Music and its Composition: 8. The arts of composing or improvising organ chorales
9. Affektenlehre, rhetoric and 'symbolism'
10. Figurenlehre as a background to composition
11. Italian influences
12. French influences
13. Niedt's and Mattheson's praeludia
14. Influences on the preludes and fugues: further remarks
15. Bicinia
Part III. The Music and its Organ: 16. The 'Bach organ'
17. J. S. Bach's organ reports
18. Registration
19. Organo pleno
20. Two manuals
21. Temperament questions
22. Harpsichord questions
23. The Music and its Performance: 23. Certain details of performance: articulation and legato
24. Fingering
25. Ornaments
26. Certain details of performance: finals, fermatas and repeats
27. Pedals and pedalling
28. Three-stave notation
Additions and corrections: Volume i
Volume II
Notes on MSS cited
List of references
Index of names
Index of BWV works cited
Title index of BWV numbers in volumes I-III.
