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MUSIC 247: Music & Ideas II: Bach and Handel

ENLIGHTENMENT AND IN THE INFLUENCE OF RATIONALISM. (16th century to 1830s) RESOURCE GUIDE FOR THE BACH AND HANDEL ASSIGNMENT

TEXT DOCUMENTS: BACH

REF ML410.B1 A3 Bd.1-5 
Bach Dokumente  Kassel : Barenreiter, 1963-2007.  5 volumes

*Bd. 1: Schriftstücke von der Hand Johann Sebastian Bachs / Vorgelegt und erläutert von Werner Neumann und Hans-Joachim Schulze. Kassel : Barenreiter, 1963.

Documents in Bach’s hand. (Bach's letters, receipts, etc.)

*Bd. 2: Fremdschriftliche und gedruckte Dokumente zur Lebensgeschichte Johann Sebastian Bachs, 1685-1750. Kritische Gesamtausgabe. Vorgelegt und erläutert von Werner Neumann und Hans-Joachim Schulze.Kassel : Barenreiter, 1969.

*Bd.3 Dokumente zum Nachwirken Johann Sebastian Bachs: 1750-1800. Kassel : Barenreiter 1972.

Printed documents and those by others. 

Bd.5 Dokumente zu Leben, Werk und Nachwirken Johann Sebastian Bachs, 1685-1800 / vorgelegt und erläutert von Hans-Joachim Schulze unter Mitarbeit von Andreas Glöckner. Kassel : Barenreiter, 2007.

Omissions from earlier volumes. 

English translations and excerpts in English: 

*RESERVE Mus Book       ML410.B1 D24 1998
David, Hans T. The new Bach reader : a life of Johann Sebastian Bach in letters 
and documents
 / edited by Hans T. David and Arthur Mendel ; 
revised and enlarged by Christoph Wolff.  New York : W.W. Norton, c1998.

English translations of Bach documents (or excerpts) including the Nekrolog and Forkel biography, with citations for locations of transcriptions of originals in the Bach Dokumente (BD).

 

Bach's Bible:

ML95.5 .B18 no. 2
Bach, Johann Sebastian. The Calov Bible of J.S. Bach. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press, c1985.

Bach’s personal bible with his marginalia.

For an English translation:
Mus Lib ML410.B1 J18 1985   
Leaver, Robin A.  J.S. Bach and scripture : glosses from the Calov Bible commentary. St. Louis: Concordia Pub. House, c1985. 

TEXT DOCUMENTS: HANDEL

   
*RESERVE ML410 H13 D47
Deutsch, Otto.  Handel, a documentary biography. London : A.  and C. Black, 1955.

Chronological account of Handel's life, based on the Mainwaring biography.  Presents annotated transcriptions of all documents, letters,newspaper items, advertisements, contemporary comments. In English.

 

*Mus Ref Book   ML134.H16 A19 v.4       
Eisen, Walter u. Margret Eisen.  Händel-Handbuch : in 4 Bd. : gleichzeitig Suppl. zu Hallische Händel-Ausgabe (Kritische Gesamtausgabe).  Kassel ; Basel ; Tours ; London : Bärenreiter, c1978-1986. VOLUME 4.

*Bd. 4. Dokumente zu Leben und Schaffen.  Presents most known contemporary documents with commentary in German. Based on Deutsch's Handel, a documentary biography but more up-to date. Index at back of volume indicates location of documents relating to individual works.

 

*Handel Reference Database Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities (CCARH) at Stanford University, 2008–

Includes transcriptions  of primary sources by year. Includes annotations for locations in Deutsch's Handel, a documentary biography and the Händel-Handbuch.