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• ABC Online: Bach, the Evangelist - Text of radio play featuring the composer with contributions from Michael Merissen, Robin Leaver, and John Kleinig, with references to various compositions as his music and theology are examined.
• Adoremus - Brief examination of the gematria, or number patterns in his compositions, suggesting that their careful placement was part of his prayer and meditation.
• Archive and Bibliography - Biographical information, pictures and the full texts of over forty cantatas.
• Bach Archiv Leipzig - Discovery of an unknown vocal work at the Anna Amalia Library in Weimar, Germany by a researcher.
• Bach Bibliography - A searchable catalogue of books, articles, theses, papers and facsimile editions on the works of the composer.
• Bach Central Station - A large directory of resources such as MIDI files, scores, a biography, images, and more.
• Bach Organ - Dedicated to building a community of those who love the composer's pipe organ music. Includes biography, workshops, tributes, organ schools and purchase information, clip art, jokes, sheet music, recording and book sales, and links.
• Bach Tempo - Revisitation of the ongoing debate among factions of early music artists attempts to ascertain the more "historically correct" time signature for the composer's works. Includes endnotes, chart, and links.
• Bach's Life in Pictures - Color illustrations with captions and music samples documenting the major periods of the composer's life.
• Bach: The Baroque, and Beyond - Graduate seminar includes motivic variation, development, and saturation, permutation, symmetry, and counterpoint in the composer and others of the period, as well as later developments.
• Baroque Music - Contemporary prints of the composer's Leipzig showing familiar scenes and some lesser known facets of Leipzig city life, institutions and facilities. Of unusual interest is the city's piped fresh water supply.
• Biography of Bach - Brief sketch of his life, focusing on his rapidity of composition and technical skills both in playing and maintaining various instruments.
• Church Cantatas - A well documented examination of the composer's possible oboists, as well as the instrument's range and notational problems, covering compositions from Mülhausen to Leipzig.
• Classical Music Archives: J.S.Bach - Over 1500 complete compositions in MIDI, MP3, and Windows Media audio formats, including live recordings of featured artists. Includes two biographies, time line, download and playing instructions, and links to artist pages.
• Classical Music Pages - Article from The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music. Also links to related composers and topics, including cantatas, orchestral music, instrumental music, illustrations, list of works, and bibliography.
• Classical Net - Gives overview of his influences, including the German and Italian keyboard schools, French polyphony and organ music, as well as mathematics.
• Cosmopolis - Review of a book biography by Christoph Wolff details the book's contents and points out highlights.
• Decca Music Group - Biography emphasizing personality and relationships as well as musical abilities.
• Ferment Magazine: Bach's Achievement - Article examining the role the composer's works had in helping to reunite a Europe torn by post-Reformation conflict even as it became the standard upon which almost all subsequent Western music was based.
• Find a Grave - Details the burial, reburial, and subsequent moving of the composer's remains to Thomaskirche, Leipzig, Germany with portrait of composer and photographs of grave plate and church exterior.
• Hoasm - Biography, musicography, links to related composers, and companion resources from the Here Of A Sunday Morning radio program.
• Humanities Web - Biography, timeline, quotes, key works, suggested recordings and reading, selected works, and links.
• J.S. Bach - A biography, tour of his life in Germany, catalog of his works, bibliography, recommended recordings, and links.
• Karadar - Musica Classica Classical Music Dictionary entry with life, works, catalogue, illustrations, and MIDI audio files.
• Kunst der Fuge - Detailed biography and comments on his music from Grove Music plus MIDI audio, illustrations, and links.
• London Bach Society - A charitable society, dedicated to live performances of his music, including the annual Festival. Includes details of period playing and baroque revivals.
• Method of Transcription - Study of his compositional ideas using the clavier transcription (BWV 964) of the A minor Sonata for solo violin (BWV 1003). Includes musical notation to illustrate the author's points.
• Mfiles: Johann Sebastian Bach - Biography and music examples in the form of sheet music and sound files.
• Music of Sacred Temperament - Exploration of the intellectual and spiritual dimensions of the works involved. Includes MIDI audio samples.
• Naxos - Brief biography of the composer, and a summary of his compositions with a general catalog listing.
• Northern Arizona University: Canons - Essay concludes that canonic processes may have held profound theological significance for the composer.
• Northern Arizona University: Canons and Fugues - Tim Smith's studies of the composer's life and music, concentrating on the contrapuntal music.
• Northern Arizona University: Cyclical Works - This article examines pattern and meaning in the canons and other parts of his works, both sacred and secular. Includes VCD sound.
• Northern Arizona University: Well Tempered Clavier - Fugue analysis, scores and digital sound. Includes many resources on the life and works of the composer.
• Oregon Bach Festival - A summer festival held in Eugene, Oregon directed by Helmuth Rilling. Booking information and schedules of concerts and master classes.
• Princeton: On Bach and the Curved Bow - A review of Michael Bach's performance of the composer's solo cello suites (Mode Records) using a curved cello bow which allows him to play chords without arpeggiation. Review considers the significance and historical implications of the curved bow in the performance of the composer's music.
• Record Hall: Bach - A biography that critiques and analyzes the composer's style.
• Rifkin's Pesky Idea - Reprinted article examines the possibility that the composer used one singer per part rather than a larger choir in many of his vocal works.
• Schering's Wacky Theory - Joshua Rifkin defends his own ideas on the composer's use of single-voiced choir parts by way of scholar Arnold Schering.
• The Bach Portal - Directory of annotated links. Listing by institutions, departments and societies, general links, catalogue of works and bibliographies, works, related Baroque composers, his world, performance practice, and Baroque instruments.
• The Father of Music - Brief chronology, partial list of works with MIDI audio for selected BMV numbers, gallery, and contact information.
• The Freedom of a Christain - Series of woodcuts matched with selections from the St. Matthew Passion. Includes scenes from late in the life of Christ, his suffering, death, burial.
• The Global Bach Community - An organization devoted to linking and supporting local Bach organizations worldwide.
• The Greatest Lutheran Composer - A tribute to the composer and his contributions to church music.
• The Rec Music Foundation - Lyrics of some of his vocal music in German song texts and English translations.
• The Schiller Institute - Speculation preceding examination of known facts about Mozart transcribing music by Bach. Includes looks at other related composers and certain theoretical studies.
• The University of Vermont: Bach Texts - Complete vocal works with English translations. Limited permission to copy in programs and program notes.
• Vienna: J.S. Bach - Basic information of the composer. Links to lives of other composers.
• WQXR - Musical biography with early influences, summaries of instrumental talents, professional positions, and compositions, historical significance, and partial list of works from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music.
• Works Catalog - Complete works catalog, directory of internet resources, recommended recordings, MIDI and RealAudio files, images, icons, links, and a monthly quiz and CD giveaway.