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Commentaries: Main Page | Cantatas BWV 1-50 | Cantatas BWV 51-100 | Cantatas BWV 101-150 | Cantatas BWV 151-200 | Cantatas BWV 201-224 | Other Vocal Works BWV 225-524 | Sources


EvH [Dutch]

Index to Commentaries on Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works
Part 6: Other Vocal Works BWV 225-249

< Cantatas BWV 201-224

 

Motets

BWV 225-230 Commentaries: English: Traditional and individual style in the Motets of J.S. Bach [N. Beck] | A Study of the Texts of J.S. Bach's Motets | The Bach Motets (S.225-S.230) [S. Lachterman]

BWV 225 Commentaries: English: All Music | Bethlehem | Emmanuel Music | NBV-AOB | Wikipedia
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BWV 226 Commentaries: English: All Music | Bethlehem | Emmanuel Music | NBV-AOB | Wikipedia
Nielsen [Danish] | EvH [Dutch]

BWV 227 Commentaries: English: All Music | Emmanuel Music | Wikipedia | NBV-AOB | Bachipedia
EvH [Dutch]

BWV 228 Commentaries: English: All Music | Bethlehem | Emmanuel Music | NBV-AOB | Bachipedia | Wikipedia

BWV 229 Commentaries: English: All Music | Bethlehem | Emmanuel Music | NBV-AOB | Wikipedia
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BWV 230 Commentaries: English: All Music | Bethlehem | Emmanuel Music | NBV-AOB | Wikipedia
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BWV 231 Commentaries: English: NBV-AOB | Wikipedia
EvH [Dutch]

BWV 1164=Anh 159 Commentaries: English: Bethlehem | NBV-AOB | Wikipedia
Nielsen [Danish] | EvH [Dutch]

BWV App. A 4=Anh 160 Commentaries: English: Wikipedia
EvH [Dutch]

BWV BWV 1149=deest Commentaries: English: Wikipedia
EvH [Dutch]

Latin Church Music

BWV 232 Commentaries: English: Xinh X. Huynh / Stanford University: J.S. Bach Mass in B minor (Contains a commentary on the the different movements of the Mass as well as providing background information)
Timothy A. Smith: Bach's Mass in B Minor as Musical Icon
Bernard D. Sherman: Performing Bach's B minor Mass: Thirty Years of HIP
John Butt: Mass in B Minor - Bach's only complete setting of the Latin Ordinary
Kenneth Hannaford & Audrey Wong: J.S. Bach's B Minor Mass (May 1996) (Analysis of the theological enumeration of certain portions of the piece according to a Trinitarian understanding of God)
Dr. Carol Traupman-Carr / Bethelehem: The Mass in B Minor, BWV 232
Henry de Jong / Worship as New: Mass in B Minor: A Visual Studio NBV-AOB
EvH [Dutch]

BWV 233 Commentaries: English: All Music
Other Languages: EvH [Dutch]

BWV 234 Commentaries: English: All Music
Other Languages: EvH [Dutch]

BWV 235 Commentaries: English: All Music | Bethlehem | NBV-AOB
Other Languages: EvH [Dutch]

BWV 236 Commentaries: English: All Music
Other Languages: EvH [Dutch]

BWV 237 Commentaries: Nielsen [Danish]

BWV 238 Commentaries: English: NBV-AOB
Other Languages: Nielsen [Danish] | EvH [Dutch]

BWV 239 Commentaries: EvH [Dutch]

BWV 240 Commentaries:

BWV 241 Commentaries:

BWV 242 Commentaries: English:
Other Languages: NBV-AOB

BWV 243 Commentaries: English: All Music | Bethlehem | Emmanuel Music | NBV-AOB | Wikipedia
Other Languages: Nielsen [Danish] | EvH [Dutch]

BWV 243a Commentaries: English: All Music | Wikipedia
Other Languages: Nielsen [Danish] | EvH [Dutch]

Matthäus-Passion BWV 244

Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäuspassion (Evangelische Pauluskirche Darmstadt)

Kompletter Text sowie Gedanken zu Form und Inhalt dieser Bach-Vertonung aus dem Evangelium [German]

Wolfgang Kleber

Johann Sebastian Bach's St. Matthew Passion - A Chronological Overview

 

Raptus Association

Bach and Dürer: Passion Music and Imagery

Series of woodcuts matched with selections from the St. Matthew Passion. Includes scenes from late in the life of Christ, his suffering, death, burial

Sam Sawyer

St Matthew Passion vs. Titanic

Compares and contrasts the merits of Bach's St Matthew Passion with James Cameron's Titanic. Asks whether the latter deserves to be called 'great art

Bernard S. Greenberg

St Matthew Passion, BWV 244

[Bethelehem]

 

Program Notes for Bach’s St. Matthew Passion

[Baroque Choral Group]

David Gordon

St. Matthew Passion: A dramatic visualization, translation and commentary

 

Henry de Jong / Worship aNew

A Companion to J. S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion

A book completed by members of MUS480: Advanced Seminar in Musicological Topics Spring 2010: The Music of J. S. Bach instructor: J. Gibson at

James Madison University

Nielsen [Danish]

     

Johannes-Passion BWV 245

Johannes-Passion Seminar - Recht und Musik

German

Silivia Hildenbrand & Monika Michael

Johann Sebastian Bach's Johannespassion - liturgischer Standort und formale Überlegungen

German

Rupert Gottfried Frieberger

The Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies

A symposium under the title "When Words Hurt: The Gospel of John, Bach's music and Religious Intolerence". You can read the contributors notes on the anti-semitism or otherwise of the Johannes-Passion

 

J.S. Bach: St John Passion BWV 245

Hear the whole of the St John Passion in Real Audio

 

Programme Notes for J.S. Bach’s St. John Passion

[Baroque Choral Group]

Audrey Wong & Norm Proctor

1724 version (Nielsen), Danish commentary (BCW)

B!52, Odcinek 70 [Polish]

 

Markus-Passion BWV 247

Nielsen [Danish]

 

Weihnachts-Oratorium BWV 248

J.S. Bach - Weinachtsoratorium (Texte)

Kompletter Text des Bachwerke-Verzeichnisses [German]

 

BWV 248: English: Bethlehem 1 | Bethlehem 2 | Mincham | Vaughan
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BWV 248/1: English: Crouch
Nielsen [Danish]

BWV 248/2: English: Crouch
Nielsen [Danish]

BWV 248/3: English: Crouch
Nielsen [Danish]

BWV 248/4: English: Crouch
Nielsen [Danish]

BWV 248/5: English: Crouch
Nielsen [Danish]

BWV 248/6: English: Crouche
Nielsen [Danish]
BWV 248/6a: English: Crouch

 

Oster-Oratorium BWV 249

BWV 249: English: Bethlehem | Crouch | Mincham
Nielsen [Danish]

 

Chorales BWV 250-438

J.S. Bach Chorales

Big site featuring chorale MIDI’s. There are 820 pieces here which can be downloaded. Has a lot of information about Midi files as well

Margaret Greentree

Cyber Hymnal

A massive site containing hymn melodies. Contains some MIDI’s of Bach chorales with information on their background and texts in English. MIDI’s can be downloaded

 

Examples of Experiments in Musical Intelligence Music

MIDI files and scores in PDF format of 371 chorales

David Cope

     

Anna Magadelena Notenbüchlein

Bist du bei mir (Carolina Classical)

Essay on this work now thought to be by Stolzel. Contains a recording of the piece in Real Audio and a PDF copy of the score

Janet I. Wasserman

     

Psalm 51 BWV 1083

 

Stabat Mater - Bach

About the composer, About the Stabat Mater-paraphrase, Colorbar, CD information

 

AAM Features – Bach Bibliothek Programme

There are several ironies surrounding Bach’s arrangement of Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater as a German psalm-setting (Psalm 51)

John Butt

St. Florianer: Bach Stabat Mater Parody

Liner notes

Shel Ritter [TVRC]

     

Other Vocal Works – General

Other Vocal Works – Original Texts

Original Texts in German / Latin

Walter F. Bischof

J.S Bach: Texts of the Complete Vocal Works with English Translation and Commentry

Texts of the Complete Vocal Works with English Translation and Commentry. Also features the vocal works sorted by the authors of hymn texts and librettists

Z. Philip Ambrose

New Bach Composition Discovered

Report from the BBC about the discovery of a motet in Kiev, Ukraine

 

Bach’s Passions

[Bach 101]

Dr. Carol Traupman-Carr

 

< Cantatas BWV 201-224

 

Prepared by Aryeh Oron (December 2000 - September 2022)


Commentaries: Main Page | Cantatas BWV 1-50 | Cantatas BWV 51-100 | Cantatas BWV 101-150 | Cantatas BWV 151-200 | Cantatas BWV 201-224 | Other Vocal Works BWV 225-524 | Sources




 

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