"Hearing Bach's Passions" by Daniel R. Melamed
OxfUni Press | 2005 | ISBN: 0195169336 019534703X 9780195347036 9780195169331 | 179 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Highly accessible to the non-specialist, the book assumes no technical musical knowledge and does not rely on printed musical examples. Based on the most recent scholarship and using lucid prose, the book opens up the debates surrounding this repertory to music lovers, choral singers, church musicians, and students of Bach's music.