Table of Contents:
  • Under the spell of opera? : Bach's oratorio trilogy / Christoph Wolff
  • Johann Sebastian Bach and Barthold Heinrich Brockes / Daniel R. Melamed
  • Drama and discourse : the form and function of chorale tropes in Bach's oratorios / Markus Rathey
  • Oratorio on five afternoons : from the Lübeck Abendmusiken to Bach's Christmas oratorio / Kerala J. Snyder
  • The triumph of "instrumental melody" : aspects of musical poetics in Bach's St. John passion / Laurence Dreyfus
  • Bach's Ascension oratorio : God's kingdoms and their representation / by Eric Chafe.