Images and Video
Sites that include a substantial amount of Bach imagery.



Bach BowBACH.Bogen, Curved Bows for String Instruments, Rundbögen für Streichinstrumente
http://pro.wanadoo.fr/bach.bogen/
The BACH.Bogen enables the string player to play on one, two, three and four strings simultaneously and to change flexibly between these combinations. Its high arch allows polyphonous playing and a lever mechanism effects the tension and release of the bow's hairs.
Analysis  Commercial  Educational  Images  Instruments  Performers  Recordings 
Lara St. JohnWell-Tempered Productions / Classical Music Online
http://www.welltempered.com
'Classical Music Online is the premiere online resource dedicated exclusively to classical music.' Also the home of Club Lara!
Audio  Commercial  Events  Images  Links  Performers  Recordings  Works 
Dr Yo Tomita, School of Music, Queen's University
http://www.music.qub.ac.uk/~tomita/index.html
This site features a wealth of information and resources related to Bach including a comprehensive Bach Bibliography, Source Studies of the Well-Tempered Clavier Book II and high quality MIDI files. This site also features the 'Bach' Musicological Font, a high quality font face with additional music symbols that blend seamlessly with the text. There is also information about Yo's publications including J. S. Bach's `Das Wohltemperierte Clavier II': A Critical Commentary, 3 vols. and many online essays.
Analysis  Bibliography  Biography  Commercial  Educational  Images  Links  MIDI  Personal  Recordings  Scores  Works 
Rodarmer Goldberg VariationsPangaea Productions / Kurt Rodarmer
http://www.ppr.com
This site features information and audio clips from Kurt Rodarmer's amazing recording of the Goldberg Variations on the Classical Guitar. 'Pangaea Productions of Santa Clara, California is an audio production company. Our web site features recordings by Kurt Rodarmer and Carlos Vazquez, and the intent is to showcase important figures in the musical world past and present.'
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Dave's J.S. Bach Page
http://www.jsbach.net/
Original MIDI Files, Images, RealAudio Files, Recommended Recordings, a Bach Works Catalog, Links, and More
Analysis  Audio  Images  Links  MIDI  Performers  Personal  Recordings  Scores  Works 


The J.S. Bach Home Page
http://www.jsbach.org
'The complete Johann Sebastian Bach. An extensive biography, tour of Bach's life in Germany, catalog of his works, bibliography, recommended recordings, and other Bach resources on the web. This award-winning site is maintained by Jan Hanford in North Amercia and Jan Koster in Europe.'
Bibliography  Biography  Events  Images  Links  Recordings 


The J.S. Bach Tourist
http://www.let.rug.nl/Linguistics/diversen/bach/tourist1.html
'What is offered on these J.S. Bach tourist pages is not a travel guide in the usual sense but a series of personal impressions of Bach sites, illustrated with pictures and supplemented with some minimal practical information.'
Biography  Images  Personal 


Club JSB
http://www.pennuto.com/music/jsb_ornm.htm
'Dedicated to the music of J.S. Bach and other great composers and performers'
Includes: On J.S. Bach's Fantasy & Fugue, BWV 906, J.S. Bach's Ornament Table, A Tribute to Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Glenn Gould and the Electronic Future
Analysis  Audio  Bibliography  Biography  Educational  Images  MIDI  Personal  Scores  Works 


The Canons and Fugues of J. S. Bach
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~tas3/bachindex.html
Canons & Fugues contains a theory of canonic and fugal processes linked to examples of analyzed canons and fugues by J. S. Bach. Canons include those of the Goldberg Variations and Addendum, Musical Offering, Art of Fugue, Orgelbüchlein, Vom Himmel hoch, Clavier-Übung III, Honorific works and concludes with an essay "Why Did Bach Write Canons?" Fugues include the Art of Fugue, portions of the Well Tempered Clavier, and conclude with directions on how to Analyze a Fugue. The site also contains extensive biography and history including Bach's Education & Career, the Bach Family, the Baroque Ideal, Bach's Contemporaries, and an essay on the importance of Bach's work in contemporary art and criticism "Not Bach, but Meer."
Analysis  Bibliography  Biography  Educational  Images  Links  Scores  Works 


Alexandre H. Hohmann's Bach Page
http://www.voicenet.com/~hohmann/bach/
'These pages are dedicated to the music and life of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), perhaps the greatest genius in Western music. ... These pages contain pictures of Bach and of some of the many places in which he worked and lived, the texts (with English translation) of a few of his vocal works, documents and letters and, soon, a chronology of his life and a list of references.'
Bibliography  Biography  Images  Personal 


Teri Noel Towe's Johann Sebastian Bach Pages
http://www.rainbowflag.com/homepage/teritowe/jsbindex.html
Portraits, Places Familiar to Sebastian Bach, Pipe Organs Played by Sebastian Bach, Rebuilding the Frauenkirche in Dresden, Sebastian Bach's Handwriting, Some Early Printed Editions, Recommended Recordings
Bibliography  Images  Instruments  Links  Personal  Recordings  Scores  Works 


GMD - Music Archive
http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/
Downloadable PostScript versions of Bach Scores and CD catalogs for various labels.
Images  Recordings  Scores 


Emanuele Visentini's Musae
http://www.aliasnet.it/musae/bacheng.htm
Bach the One and Only ( The Genius of Eisenach )
Bibliography  Images 


Classical Music Online: Lara St. John
http://www.onworld.com/CMO/laraStJn.html
An article about one individual's first encounter with the lovely Lara St. John.
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Lara St. John's Home Page
http://www.larastjohn.com
Home page of the lovely Lara St. John who recorded a remarkable CD of the 2nd Partita and 3rd Sonata for Solo Violin. A great site with audio clips.
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Bachhaus Eisenach ( in German )
http://www.bachhaus.de/
'We are a museum about J.S. Bach and his family. The house is the supposed birthplace of J.S. Bach. Rooms in Barock style and original instruments of the time can be seen.'
Biography  Events  Images 


Glenn Gould: A Perspective
http://www.uottawa.ca/~weinberg/gould.html
Glenn Gould information, resources, and links.
Images  Links  Performers 


The Official Glenn Gould Web Site
http://www.glenngould.com/
An excellent Gould site maintained by Sony. Has a discography, audio files, links, and more.
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Bach: A small contribution to his web presence
http://mitglied.tripod.de/RobKruijt/bachjs/bachjs00.htm
On this web-site, some less known illustrations of stations in the life and work of Sebastian Bach are provided.
Biography  Educational  Images  Instruments  Personal 


Bach: What a Family
http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Musician/Bach.html
A well done site with some biographical information about Bach's family and a family tree.
Biography  Images 


Johann Sebastian Bach: The St. Matthew Passion
http://amr1.com/cat-des/mu/mu8655.htm
'Filmed at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, where for 25 years Bach himself was an organist.'
Commercial  Images 


A Tour with then Bach Choir of Bethlehem
http://home.ptd.net/~cheinze/GermanyPictureJourney.html
Many great pictures!
Biography  Images  Personal 


The Glenn Gould Archive
http://www.gould.nlc-bnc.ca/
'This site was developed by the National Library of Canada which is the official repository of the archives of the late concert pianist, Glenn Gould.'
Audio  Images  Links  Performers  Recordings 


Xinh's JS Bach Index / J.S. Bach Mass in B Minor
http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~xinh/jsbindex.html
Writings on J.S. Bach's Mass in B Minor including: Composition of the work, Organization of movements, Text of the Mass in B Minor, Balance in musical style, Symmetry in Credo, Closer look at individual movements .

Analysis  Bibliography  Biography  Educational  Images  Links  Personal  Scores  Works 


Nicholas Baumgartner's Bach Emporium
http://www.oberlin.edu/~nbaumgar
'A consolidation of many Bach-links available on the Internet. This is a project for a computer science class at Oberlin, for which I drew upon my love for J.S. Bach.'
Audio  Bibliography  Biography  Educational  Images  Links  Performers  Personal 


The Lute Page
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute/lute.html
Images  Instruments  Scores 


KVNO 90.7FM - Johann Sebastian Bach
http://www.kvno.unomaha.edu/ips/kvno/Deutscher/Bach.html
Biography  Images 


'Goldberg Variations' by J.S. Bach
http://www.rjgeib.com/music/Top-Ten/gould.html
'The Glenn Gould liner notes to the 1956 Bach Goldberg Variations'
Images  Performers  Recordings 


Glenn Gould: A Perspective
http://www.uottawa.ca/~weinberg/gould.html
Images  Performers  Recordings 





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