Bach's Chorales: Bibliographical Articles

William L. Hoffman wrote (September 8, 2024):
+BCW General, BCW
+BCW Chorale Melodies, texts, BCW
+BCW Bachfest Leipzig 1724, chorale cantata (2nd) cycle, BCW.
+BCW Chorale Cantatas: Unity through diversity, BCW
+BCW Chorale Cantata Cycle: Challenges, Ingredients, Scope, BCW.
+BCW Bachfest Leipzig 1724, chorale cantata (2nd) cycle, BCW
+BCW Chorale Addendum: Borrowings, Adaptations, Sources, BCW
+BCW Works Catalogue BWV3: Chorale Collections, Sources, Usages; Sacred Songs, BCW
+BCW BWV3 Catalogue, BCW Chorale Resources, BCW.
+BCW World of the Bach Chorale Settings, BCW.
+BCW Chorale Cantata Cycle: Part 1; Part 2: Early Reception History, BCW
+BCW Motets & Chorales for Events in the Lutheran Church Year, BCW
+BCW Chorale Cantata Cycle: sections: "Chorale Cantata Overview," "Anatomy of a Chorale Cantata," Lutheran Chorale Tradition," "Chorale Cantata Cycle," "Genesis of Chorale Cantata Cycle" (cycle 1 proto-chorale cantatas BWV 43, 95, and 73 plus BWV 138), "Chorale Cantata Elements," "Innovation & Balancing Act," "Compositional Challenges," "Cantata Cycle Incomplete," "Chorale Cantata Obstacles," and "Chorale Cantata Librettist(s)" which probes the great enigma of the identity of the cycle librettist(s) and the reasons for Bach's cycle cessation at Easter 1725 (BCW: scroll down to "Chorale Cantata Cycle"
+BML (Bach Mailing List): articles, 2014, BCW: scroll down to "Choral Cantatas, Cycle II"; BCW;

+BCW Chorale by Theme. Passion Chorale (November 16-18, 2004)

Motets & Chorales for Christmas (February 28, 2015)
Clavierübung III, German Organ Mass/Catechism Chorales, BWV 669-689 (July 9+16, 2017)
Luther's Deutsche Messe, Other Liturgical Chorales (July 21, 2017)
Christological Cycle: Penitential/Communion Chorales (July 25, 2017)
Chorales: Psalms, Christian Life, Troubles, Thanks, Weddings (July 28, 2017)
Gloria Settings, BWV 260; Free-Standing Chorales, BWV 253-438 (September 23, 2017)
Trinity 21-23, Death & Dying Chorales (December 3, 2017)
Last Trinity Time Sundays' Cantatas, Chorales (December 7, 2017)
Devotional Hymns: Morning, Evening Songs (December 14, 2017)
Blessing & Thanks Hymns as Chorales at Meals; Tafelmusik (December 21, 2017)
Eschatological Chorales, Coming in Judgement (December 24, 2017)
Passiontide Devotional Chorales, Other Weiße Hymns (February 20, 2018)
Holy Week Passion Chorales (March 25, 2018)
Good Friday Chorales (March 31, 2018)
Easter Season Chorales (April 11, 2018)
Chorale-Song Collections, Student Work (October 14, 2018)
Christological Cycle: Part 2, Latin Church Music, Chorale Settings (November 21+24, 2018)
Christological Cycle Summary: Oratorios, Related Cantatas, Latin Church Music; Chorales (December 1, 2018)

Other articles

Uwe Wolf, "The chorale cantata year-cycle and the St. John Passion," Carus-Verlag
+Wikipedia, Chorale Cantatas, Wikipedia.
Charles Sanford Terry, Bach’s Chorals, 3 vols., Online Library of Liberty.
+Alfred Dürr, "Bach's Chorale Cantatas": In BACH: Essays, ed. Yo Tomita et al (Burbank CA: Ashgate Publishing, 2011: 111-119 (Chapter 11); In Cantors at the Crossroads: Essays in Church Music in Honor of Walter E. Buszin (St. Louis: Concordia, 1967: 507-517); Bach-Bibliographie.
+Hans-Joachim Schulze, "Bach's Chorale Cantatas," in Commentaries on the Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach, trans. James A. Brokaw II (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 2024), IOPN Library Illinois, Amazon.com; source: Die Bach-Kantaten: Einführungen zu Sämtlichen Kantaten Johann Sebastian Bachs (Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2006.
+Harald Streck, Die Verskunst in den poetischen Texten zu den Kantaten J. S. Bachs (The Art of Verse in the Poetic Texts of J. S. Bach's Cantatas), (Hamburg: Verl. d. Musikalienhandlg. Wagner, 1971), Hamburger Beiträge zur Musikwissenschaft; 5; authors of chorale cantatas in four groups:
1^st group: BWV 78, 8, 96, 5, 115, 26, 62, 124 & 1 (also 181).
2^nd group: BWV 9, 101, 113, 180 (also 190,65 & adaptations of 66, 134, 184).
3^rd group: BWV 33, 99, 130, 114, 38, 139, 116, 91, 121, 133, 122, 41, 123, 3, 111, 125.
4^th group: possibly by various authors & of inferior poetic quality: BWV 20,2, 7, 135, 10, 93, 178, 94, 92, 127.
Table of Contents (Inhaltverzeichnis), GBV|VZG.
Also published in BACH, Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute (Berea OH, July 1980: 18-35.
+Alfred Dürr, 2.5 Leipzig Cycle II (1724-25), in The Cantatas of J. S. Bach: With Their Librettos in German-English Parallel Text, rev. & trans. Richard D. P. Jones (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005: 29-36), Amazon.com.
+Klaus Hoffmann, Cantatas from Leipzig 1724, BCW: scroll down to "O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 20." +Renata Steiger, ed., "Johann Sebastian Bachs Choralkantaten als Choral Bearbeitungen," Internationale Arbeits Gemainschaft für Theologische Bachforschung Bulletin 3; Heidelberg 1991.
+Friedhelm Krummacher, "Bach’s Zyklus der Choralk: Auifgeben und Lösungen," Göttingen, 1995, as cited in An Introduction to Bach Studies, Daniel R. Melamed and Michael Marissen (Oxford University Press: New York, 1998: 116).

Monographs

+Klek, Konrad, Dein ist allein die Ehre (Yours alone is the honor), Johann Sebastian Bach's Geistliche Kantaten erklärt (Bach's Sacred Cantatas Explained): Vol. 1, Choralkanten (Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2015); 40 cantatas 2nd cycle, 11 cantatas later added, 5 not assigned to cycle; Amazon.com.
+Markus Rathey, IV. Der Zweite Leipziger Jahrgang — Choralkantaten, in Bach's Kantaten: Das Handbuch, Vol. 1, ed. Reinmaar Emans & Sven Hiemke (44 cantatas surveyed) (Laaber: Lilenthal, 2012), Amazon.de.
+W. Gillies Whittaker, "Choral Cantatas," in vol. 1, Church Cantatas, Middle Period (Leipzig) (London: Oxford University Press, 1959), Amazon.com.
+Konrad Kuster, "Die Choralkanten im 2. Leipziger Jahrgang," in Bach Handbuch, ed. Konrad Kuster (Kassel: Bärenreiter/Metzler, 2nd ed. 2017), Amazon.de; abstract, Research Gate.
+Martin Geck, "The Leipzig Cantatas: Chorale Cantata Cycle," in Johann Sebastian Bach: Life and Work, trans. John Hargraves (Orlando: Harcourt Inc., 2006), Amazon.com.