Most studies of the Mass in B Minor deal with the history of the work, its reception history, primary sources, performance practice issues, rhetoric, and even theological and numerical symbolism. However, little research focuses on an in-depth analysis of the music itself. Of the few analytical studies undertaken, to date only a limited number attempt to explain Bach's use of parody technique or unity in the whole composition. This thesis focuses on understanding three primary concerns in regards to the Mass in B minor: to comprehend how preexistent material was adapted to the context of the Mass, how this material functions in the network of the entire composition, and how unity is achieved by means of large-scale voice leading. The results of this study not only provide new information about this monument of Western music, but also provide insight to the deep sense of large-scale structure in Bach's work.

Ziel des Projekts „Forschungsportal Bach“ ist der Aufbau eines umfassenden Online-Repositoriums, das Zugang zu allen erhaltenen Dokumenten der Musikerfamilie Bach – der einflussreichsten Familiendynastie in der Musikgeschichte – vom späten 16. bis zum frühen 19. Jahrhundert bietet. Zum ersten Mal in der Geschichte der Bachforschung wird das Material, das in Bibliotheken, Archiven und Privatsammlungen erhalten ist, digital erfasst, indiziert, verarbeitet, annotiert und via Online-Portal zugänglich gemacht. Die digitalisierten Dokumente werden mittels „Transkribus“ automatisch transkribiert, mit Hilfe des TEI Publishers annotiert und schließlich als digitale Edition veröffentlicht. Dabei werden u.a. die in den Dokumenten erwähnten Werke sowie Wasserzeichen ausgewählter Archivalien mit dem Portal „Bach digital“ verknüpft.

In the tradition of the Bach Cello Suite sources, it is generally accepted that the G minor Lute Suite, Source H (BWV 995), is Bach's transcription of his Fifth Cello Suite. Questions on the origin of the Lute Suite autograph were the stimulus for an investigation of its relationship to the other Cello Suite sources. Its provenance was examined in detail based on evidence in the extant manuscripts. The results of the study point to the improbability of the transcription concept, suggesting instead that the Lute Suite autograph and the Fifth Cello Suite were derived separately by Bach from a lost original lute source.

Hinter „Bach Digital“ verbirgt sich die Idee einer digitalen Bibliothek aller erhaltenen Originalhandschriften Johann Sebastian Bachs. Das seit 2008 von der DFG geförderte Projekt wird vom Bach-Archiv Leipzig, der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin und der SLUB Dresden betreut, in denen etwa 90% der Originalhandschriften überliefert sind. Um in absehbarer Zeit alle Bach-Autographe zu vereinen, werden Vorgespräche mit der Library of Congress in Washington, der New York Public Library und der British Library in London geführt.

The problem with, which this thesis is concerned is that of analyzing and comparing the fugal writing and contrapuntal style of J. S. Bach in the fugue expositions of The Well-Tempered Clavier and that of Paul Hindemith in the fugue expositions of the Ludus Tonalis. This comparison is made on the basis of a comprehensive analysis of the fugal expositions both collections of fugues mentioned ( The Well-Tempered by Bach and the Ludus Tonalis by Hindemith). Chapter I includes a discussion of the careers and compositional techniques of Bach and Hindemith. An emphasis is placed on a comparison of Bach's fugal writing with that of his immediate predecessors (composers of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries who were writing in the fugal style) and on a comparison Of Hindemith's theory of tonality, as expressed in The Craft of Musical Composition, with that of the traditional harmonic concept of Bach's day. Chapter II deals with the evolution of the fugal concept. In this chapter, imitative forms of composition which gradually evolved toward the fugue are traced from their very early beginnings through the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. Emphasis is placed on the fugal form that Bach used and on Hindemith's neo-Baroque approach to fugal writing in the twentieth century. In Chapters III and IV, analyses are made of the expositions in the forty-eight fugues of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier and Hindemith's Ludus Tonalis .There is a discussion of the number of voices, order of entries", order of statements of the theme, key relationships, and redundant entries. Also discussed In these chapters are the beginning and ending notes of the Subject, a change in tonality of the subject range and length of the subjects. There is, further, a discussion of the real and tonal answers and the reasons for the use of a tonal answer, recurring countersubject, invertible counterpoint, interludes, length of the exposition, and the cadences at the end of the fugue expositions. in Chapter V the fugal writing of Bach, as demonstrated in the fugue expositions of The Well-Tempered Clavier, and that of Hindemith, as demonstrated in the fugue expositions of the Ludus Tonalis, are compared. This comparison of these two styles of fugal writing shows the two composers' techniques and procedures to be very much alike except in Hindemith's expanded concept of tonality. Although Bach's set of fugues has set a standard for this type of writing, Hindemith has shown that this old form is still capable of being used with originality when adapted to twentieth-century practices.

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Analysis in relation to performance of the six authentic motets of J.S. Bach: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied ; Geist hilft unsrer Schwachheit auf ; Fürchte dich nicht ; Jesu, meine Freude ; Komm, Jesu, komm ; Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden.

Den Schwerpunkt der zweisprachig (deutsch-litauisch) geschriebenen Abhandlung bilden Aussagen zur Freundschaft und zum Umgang der Brüder Grotthuß mit C. Ph. E. Bach. Melnikas wertet dabei die mehrfach den Namen Grotthuß aufweisenden Bachschen Pränumerantenlisten ebenso aus, wie er auf D. E. von Grotthuß\' Kollekteurstätigkeit in diesem Zusammenhang eingeht.