The Organ Music of J. S. Bach: Volume 3, A Background

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.