附註:Includes index.
V. 1: -- Translator's foreword / Ernest Newman -- Preface to the German edition (1908) / Charles Marie Widor -- 1. The roots of Bach's art -- 2. The origin of the chorale texts -- 3. The origin of the chorale melodies -- 4. The chorale in the church service -- 5. The chorale prelude before Bach -- 6. The cantata and the Passion before Bach -- 7. From Eisenach to Leipzig -- 8. Bach in Leipzig -- 9. Appearance, nature and character -- 10. Artistic journeys, critics and friends -- 11. The artist and teacher -- 12. Death and resurrection -- 13. The organ works -- 14. The peformance of the organ -- 15. The clavier works -- 16. The performance of the clavier -- 17. Chamber and orchestral works -- 18. The musical offering and the art of fugue -- v. 2: -- 19. Bach and aesthetics -- 20. Poetic music and pictorial music -- 21. Word and tone in Bach -- 22. The musical language of the chorales -- 23. The musical language of the cantatas -- 24. The Arnstadt, Muhlhausen, Weimar and Cothen cantatas -- The Leipzig cantatas of 1723 and 1724 -- 26. The Magnificat and the St. John Passion -- 27. The cantatas of the years 1725-1727 -- 28. The Trauerode and the St. Matthew Passion -- 29. The cantatas of the years 1728-1734 -- 30. The secular cantatas -- 31. The motets and songs -- 32. The oratorios -- 33. The Masses -- 24. The cantatas after 1734 -- 35. The performance of the cantatas and Passions.
