Historical context : society, beliefs and world-view: Bach family / Malcolm Boyd. Bach and the domestic politics of electoral Saxony / Ulrich Siegele. Music and Lutheranism / Robin A. Leaver. Bach's metaphysics of music ; 'Mind unconscious that it is calculating'? Bach and the rationalist philosophy of Wolff, Leibniz and Spinoza / John Butt
Profiles of the music: Early works and the heritage of the seventeenth century / Stephen A. Crist. Mature vocal works and their theological and liturgical context / Robin A. Leaver. Instrumental music / Werner Breig. Keyboard works : Bach as teacher and virtuoso / Richard D.P. Jones. Composition as arrangement and adaptation / Werner Breig. Bachian invention and its mechanisms / Laurence Dreyfus
Influence and reception: Bach as teacher and model / Stephen Daw. Changing issues of performance practice / George B. Stauffer. Bach reception : some concepts and parameters ; Reinterpreting Bach in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Martin Zenck.
