The Keyboard Music of J.S. Bach provides an introduction to and comprehensivediscussion of all the music for harpsichord and other stringed keyboardinstruments ... » 

The Keyboard Music of J.S. Bach provides an introduction to and comprehensivediscussion of all the music for harpsichord and other stringed keyboardinstruments by Johann Sebastian Bach 16851750. Often played today on themodern piano these works are central not only to the Western concert repertorybut to musical pedagogy and study throughout the world.Intended as both a practical guide and an interpretive study the book consistsof three introductory chapters on general matters of historical context styleand performance practice followed by fifteen chapters on the individual workstreated in roughly chronological order. The works discussed include all ofBachs individual keyboard compositions as well as those comprising his famouscollections such as the WellTempered Clavier the English and French Suitesand the Art of Fugue. «