Contents

pp.：  7 – 8

List of Tables and Figures

pp.：  9 – 10

Tables

pp.：  9 – 8

Figures

pp.：  9 – 10

List of Abbreviations

pp.：  11 – 12

Foreword (Wright)

pp.：  13 – 18

Acknowledgements

pp.：  19 – 22

Introduction

pp.：  23 – 40

1. From ‘Fifth Evangelist’ to the Neue Bachausgabe

pp.：  25 – 27

2. Theological Bach Research: Back to the Sources

pp.：  28 – 30

3. Considering Anti-Judaism in Bach’s Music

pp.：  31 – 31

4. Bach and Theology Re-assessed

pp.：  32 – 33

5. Purpose and Scope of This Study

pp.：  34 – 40

Part I. Composer and Work

pp.：  41 – 42

Chapter 1. Learning the Craft of a Church Musician

pp.：  43 – 53

1. Bach’s Schooling

pp.：  43 – 45

2. Singer, Instrumentalist, Church Musician

pp.：  46 – 50

3. ‘Singing preaching and praising of God’

pp.：  51 – 53

Chapter 2. ‘It Pleased God That I Should be Called’—Bach’s Office and Craft

pp.：  54 – 65

1. The Purpose of Church Music

pp.：  58 – 60

2. ‘Gnaden-Gegenwart’: God’s Presence in Sacred Music

pp.：  61 – 62

3. Music for the Glory of God

pp.：  63 – 65

Chapter 3. Proclaiming Scripture through Music—The Development of Bach’s Cantatas

pp.：  66 – 89

1. Musical and Textual Models for Bach’s Early Cantatas

pp.：  67 – 70

2. The ‘Modern’ Cantata

pp.：  71 – 75

3. From Köthen to Leipzig: from Capellmeister to Lutheran Cantor

pp.：  76 – 81

4. The Leipzig Cantata: Words and Music that Amplify Scripture

pp.：  82 – 87

5. Composing, Rehearsing and Performing the Cantata

pp.：  88 – 89

Chapter 4. Bach’s St John Passion

pp.：  90 – 118

1. The Development of the Lutheran Responsorial Passion

pp.：  92 – 95

2. The Liturgical and Homiletic Context of Bach’s St John Passion

pp.：  96 – 99

3. The Libretto of Bach’s St John Passion

pp.：  100 – 112

3.1. Textual Elements of the St John Passion: Biblical Text

pp.：  102 – 105

3.2. Madrigalic Texts

pp.：  106 – 107

3.3. Chorales

pp.：  108 – 112

4. The Purpose and Message of Bach’s St John Passion

pp.：  113 – 118

Part II. Commentary

pp.：  119 – 120

Chapter 5. Introduction to the Commentary

pp.：  121 – 121

Chapter 6. Study Translation (Firth)

pp.：  122 – 156

Chapter 7. Commentaries and Sermon Collections Consulted in Preparation

pp.：  157 – 162

1. Abraham Calov’s ‘Great German Bible’ (1682)

pp.：  158 – 157

2. Johannes Olearius’ Haupt Schlüßel (1681)

pp.：  158 – 159

3. Sermon Collections: Martin Luther (1528–1529)

pp.：  160 – 162

Chapter 8. Commentary

pp.：  163 – 320

1. Prima Parte—First Part of the Passion

pp.：  163 – 205

Exordium—Prologue

pp.：  163 – 168

Hortus—Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane

pp.：  169 – 181

Pontifices—Jesus Before the Chief Priests

pp.：  182 – 205

2. Parte Secunda: Nach der Predigt

pp.：  206 – 320

Pilatus—Jesus Before Pilate

pp.：  206 – 280

Crux—Jesus Dies on the Cross

pp.：  281 – 311

Sepulchrum—Jesus is Laid in the Tomb

pp.：  312 – 320

Bibliography

pp.：  321 – 343

1. Primary Source Material: Manuscript Sources

pp.：  321 – 320

2. Primary Source Material: Printed Sources and Music

pp.：  321 – 327

3. Secondary Source Material: Books

pp.：  328 – 334

4. Secondary Source Materials: Articles

pp.：  335 – 342

5. Secondary Source Materials: Unpublished Dissertations

pp.：  343 – 343

Index of Names

pp.：  344 – 346

Index of Places

pp.：  347 – 347

Index of Bach’s Works by BWV Number

pp.：  348 – 349

Index of Themes

pp.：  350 – 351