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Bach Bibliography
Yo Tomita
Arts and Humanities Data Service;
Queen's University Belfast
http://www.pads.ahds.ac.uk/bachbi or http://www.npj.com/bach/
Visited 1 January 2001
Keyword Music
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) is one of the most studied and researched composers of the western classical music tradition. This Web site is a colossal tribute both to the composer and to the corpus of work relating to his music. A collection of 16,480 entries record bibliographic details of all scholarly pertinent references. The hosting of this database on the world wide Web provides excellent facilities for the international academic research community.
What started out as the single-handed endeavour of a dedicated Bach scholar is now a major resource. Yo Tomita, supported by the Queen's University of Belfast School of Music, created and is responsible for maintaining this bibliography. The Web site also owes a debt to Max Schneider who in 1905 produced a listing of some 480 Bach references covering the period 1800-1904. This listing was published in the second issue of the Bach Jahrbuch....