A Study of the Texts of J.S. Bach's Motets
   Tad Inoue of Japan provides an English version of a research paper dealing with the source material and characteristics of the lyrics with an evaluation of these writings.
   http://homepage3.nifty.com/dikaios/CMstudy/English/papers/B-Motets.htm

Acoustic Illusions: Endlessly Rising Canon
   Stefan Scheller demonstrates the illusion of the Shepard Effect using Bach's Canon per Tonus. Includes links, credits, theoretical discussion, and illustration using M. C. Escher.
   http://www.uni-bonn.de/~uzs083/akustik.html

BACHorgan.com
   Dedicated to building a community of those who love the Bach's pipe organ music. Includes biography, workshops, tributes, organ schools and purchase information, clip art, jokes, sheet music, recording and book sales, and links.
   http://www.bachorgan.com

Bach Bibliography
   A comprehensive, searchable catalogue of books, articles, theses, papers and facsimile editions on the works of Johann Sebastian Bach.
   http://www.music.qub.ac.uk/~tomita/bachbib/

Bach Central Station
   A large directory of J.S. Bach resources on the internet.
   http://www.jsbach.net/bcs/

Bach Plucked
   The composer's string music, especially lute and guitar, with specialized articles and links to internet resources .
   http://www.bachplucked.com/

Bach's Leipzig in pictures, 1725-1750
   Contemporary prints of Bach's Leipzig showing familiar scenes and some lesser-known facets of Leipzig city life, institutions and facilities. Of unusual interest is the city's piped fresh water supply.
   http://www.baroquemusic.org/bachleipzig.html

Bach's Life in Pictures
   Color illustrations with captions and music samples documenting the major periods in Bach's life.
   http://www.baroquemusic.org/bachillustrated.html

Bach's Method of Transcription
   Study of his compositional ideas using the clavier transcription (BWV 964) of the A minor Sonata for solo violin (BWV 1003). Includes musical notation to illustrate the author's points.
   http://www.delmar.edu/music/bachtran.html

Bach's Notation of Tempo and Early-Music Performance: Some Reconsiderations
   Revisitation of the ongoing debate among factions of early music artists attempts to ascertain the more "historically correct" time signature for the composer's works. Includes endnotes, chart, and links.
   http://homepages.kdsi.net/~sherman/bachtempo.htm

Bach's organ works complete BWV listing
   Complete BWV listing of Bach's Organ Works with links to CD recordings on Silbermann Organs from the Baroque Music Club.
   http://www.baroquecds.com/organtable.html

Bach, Johann Sebastian
   Musical biography with early influences, summaries of instrumental talents, professional positions, and compositions, historical significance, and partial list of works from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.
   http://www.wqxr.com/cgi-bin/iowa/cla/learning/grove.html?record=589

Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685 - 1750), Germany
   Biographical data, recommended CDs, books and sheet music, bibliography, and links to biographical essays from Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers.
   http://stevenestrella.com/composers/composerfiles/bach1750.html

Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
   brief biography, caricature, summaries of his choral and vocal, organ, other keyboard, chamber, orchestral, and concerto output, and Naxos discography.
   http://www.naxos.com/mainsite/default.asp?pn=Composers&char=B&ComposerID=52

Bach, Mozart, and the Musical Midwife
   Speculation preceding examination of known facts about Amadeus transcribing music by Sebastian. Includes looks at other related composers and certain theoretical studies.
   http://schillerinstitute.org/music/m_rasmus_801.html

Bach-Archiv Leipzig
   "Our purpose is to collect and examine literary and documentary material about the life, work and history of Johann Sebastian Bach and his family - and to present his work to the public through exhibitions, lectures, guided tours and publications.&qu
   http://www.bach-leipzig.de/

Biography of J.S. Bach
   Brief sketch of his life, focusing on his rapidity of composition and technical skills both in playing and maintaining various instruments.
   http://users.tellurian.net/tom/jsbach/index.htm

Biography of Johann Sebastian Bach
   Detailing personal, professional life, and family life with annotated and rated sheet music offerings from Piano Paradise.
   http://www.pianoparadise.com/bach.html

Bist Du bei Mir: BWV 508
   An essay on the controversy over authorship of the religious song Be Thou with Me. Janet I. Wasserman argues that it originates with Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel and was later adapted by Bach.
   http://www.carolinaclassical.com/articles/bach1.html

Classic Cat
   Directory of free Bach mp3s made available by the performing artists.
   http://www.classiccat.net/bach_js/index.htm

Classical Music Archives: J.S.Bach
   Over 1500 complete compositions in MIDI, MP3, and Windows Media audio formats, including live recordings of featured artists. Includes two biographies, time line, download and playing instructions, and links to artist pages.
   http://www.classicalarchives.com/bach.html

Dave's J.S. Bach Works Catalog
   Complete works catalog, directory of internet resources, recommended recordings, MIDI and RealAudio files, images, icons, links, and a monthly quiz and CD giveaway.
   http://www.jsbach.net/catalog/index.html

Dorset Bach Cantata Club
   Information for amateur singers and orchestral players wishing to join a long-established choir & orchestra for weekend study and performance of Bach cantatas and related works.
   http://uk.geocities.com/dbcclub/index.html

Early Music Myths
   Paul Baker of Diabolus in Musica uses the music of Bach to illustrate perceived problems and solutions to various performance issues, including choir size and instrument choice.
   http://www.diabolus.org/myths/myths.htm

Emmanuel Music
   Founded in 1970 by Craig Smith to perform the complete cycle of over 200 sacred cantatas of J.S. Bach in the liturgical setting for which they were intended. Includes extensive translations and program notes.
   http://www.emmanuelmusic.org

Exeter Bach Society
   News of Bach concerts in the Cathedral which support its Music Foundation Trust. Includes contact and membership information and an events diary.
   http://members.aol.com/exbach/

Glory to God Alone: The Life of J.S. Bach
   Glory to God Alone: The Life of J.S. Bach is a video documentary. Filmed on location in Germany, it features Bach scholars Christoph Wolff, Robin Leaver and guitar virtuoso Christopher Parkening.
   http://www.elca.org/co/mosaic/winter02.html

Grave of Johann Sebastian Bach
   Find a Grave details the burial, reburial, and subsequent moving of the composer's remains to Thomaskirche, Leipzig, Germany with portrait of composer and photographs of grave plate and church exterior.
   http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=4237

J. S. Bach Texts
   Complete vocal works with English translations. Limited permission to copy in programs and program notes.
   http://www.uvm.edu/~classics/faculty/bach/

J. S. Bach: Canons and Fugues
   Tim Smith's studies of the composer's life and music, concentrating on the contrapuntal music.
   http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~tas3/bachindex.html

J. S. Bach: His Predecessors
   Gives overview of his influences, including the German and Italian keyboard schools, French polyphony and organ music, as well as mathematics.
   http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/articles/bachjs/predcssr.html

J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
   Brief chronology, partial list of works with MIDI audio for selected BMV numbers, gallery, and contact information.
   http://chuchristine.tripod.com/

J.S. Bach Archive and Bibliography
   Biographical information, pictures and the full texts of over forty cantatas.
   http://odur.let.rug.nl/Linguistics/diversen/bach/intro.html

J.S. Bach Home Page
   An extensive biography, tour of Bach's life in Germany, catalog of his works, bibliography, recommended recordings, and links. Award-winning site, maintained by Jan Hanford in North America and Jan Koster in Europe.
   http://www.jsbach.org/

Johann Sebastian BACH Cantata 198: The Trauer Ode.
   Mourning Ode on the death of Queen Christiana of Poland/Saxony, 1727. Illustrated history, full text, and music samples.
   http://www.baroquemusic.org/198trauerode.html

Johann Sebastian Bach
   City-by-city musical biography with hymn tunes, cantatas, organ chorales, and bibliography from Hymnuts.
   http://hymnuts.luthersem.edu/hcompan/writers/bach.htm

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
   Detailed biography of the life of J.S. Bach with links to many of his Cantata scores as Adobe PDF files.
   http://www.carolinaclassical.com/bach/index.html

Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750
   Basic information on the composer. Drop-down menu allows focus on specific periods of his life. Links to lives of other composers.
   http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Choir/3228/Bach/index.html

Johann Sebastian Bach Startpagina
   Netherlands directory of categorized links from Europe, Asia, and the United States including English, Dutch, and German.
   http://bach.pagina.nl/

Johann Sebastian Bach's Achievement
   Article examining the role the composer's works had in helping to reunite a Europe torn by post-Reformation conflict even as it became the standard upon which almost all subsequent Western music was based.
   http://www.fermentmagazine.org/essays/jsbach1.html

Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician
   Review of the biography by Christoph Wolff details the book's contents and points out highlights.
   http://www.cosmopolis.ch/english/cosmo7/wolffbach.htm

Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well Tempered Tuning Is Unequal
   Paper on his ideas of Wohltemperirt and the history of the system. Also information about tuning a harpsichord in this system.
   http://ha.kellner.bei.t-online.de/

Music History 102: Johann Sebastian Bach
   Biography, illustrations, and Real Audio RAM files from the Internet Public Library. Written by by Robert Sherrane, Cataloging librarian The Juilliard School, New York.
   http://www.ipl.org/div/mushist/bar/bach.htm

Music of Intellect: Bach's Goldberg Variations
   Detailed study of the intellectual and psychological dimensions of one of these works. Includes MIDI audio samples plus pianistic information about Schoenberg, Schumann, and Mari Kumamoto.
   http://www.geocities.jp/imyfujita/goldberg/indexe.html

Musica Classica: Johann Sebastian Bach
   Classical music dictionary entry with life, works, catalogue, illustrations, and MIDI audio files.
   http://www.karadar.net/Dictionary/bach.html

On Bach and the Curved Bow
   A review of Michael Bach's performance of Bach's solo cello suites (Mode Records) using a curved cello bow which allows him to play chords without arpeggiation. Review considers the significance and historical implications of the curved bow in the perform
   http://www.music.princeton.edu/~jwp/texts/bachbow.html

Oregon Bach Festival
   A summer festival held in Eugene, Oregon directed by Helmuth Rilling. Booking information and schedules of concerts and master classes.
   http://bachfest.uoregon.edu/

Riemenschneider Bach Institute
   Archive and research institute at Baldwin-Wallace College. Organization, contact, and journal subscription information provided, along with links and festival details.
   http://www.bw.edu/~bachinst

Rifkin's Pesky Idea
   Reprinted article examines the possibility that Bach used one singer per part rather than a larger choir in many of his vocal works.
   http://homepages.kdsi.net/~sherman/oneperpart.html

Schering's Wacky Theory
   Joshua Rifkin defends his own ideas on Bach's use of single-voiced choir parts by way of scholar Arnold Schering.
   http://homepages.kdsi.net/~sherman/Scherings.htm

The Bach-Portal
   Directory of annotated links. Listing by institutions, departments and societies, general links, catalogue of works and bibliographies, works, related Baroque composers, his world, performance practice, and Baroque instruments.
   http://www.bach-portal.com

The Global Bach Community
   An organization devoted to linking and supporting local Bach organizations worldwide.
   http://www.bach-net.org

The Industrious Herr Bach
   Biography, timeline, quotes, key works, suggested recordings and reading, selected works, and links from Humanities Web.
   http://www.humanitiesweb.org/cgi-bin/human.cgi?s=c&p=c&a=i&ID=31

The London Bach Society
   Provides newsletter, details of the annual Bach festival, history of the organisation, database of his works and details of sponsership and membership.
   http://www.bachlive.co.uk/

The Oboe and the Oboe d'amore in Bach's Church Cantatas
   A well documented examination of Bach's possible oboists, as well as the instrument's range and notational problems, covering compositions from Mülhausen to Leipzig.
   http://idrs.colorado.edu/Publications/Journal/JNL6/bach.html

The Well Tempered Clavier: Music of Sacred Temperament
   Exploration of the intellectual and spiritual dimensions of the works involved. Includes MIDI audio samples.
   http://www.geocities.jp/imyfujita/index.html

Tradition and Individual Style in the Motets of J. S. Bach
   Essay examines how the composer expanded this musical genre within the context of its existing form.
   http://web.calstatela.edu/centers/Wagner/bach.htm

Well-Tempered Clavier
   Index summarizing fugue-by-fugue analysis drawing comparisons from visual arts, physics, mathematics, literature and astronomy. Links to scores with digital sound and many resources on the life and works of Bach, designed for a course at Northern Arizona
   http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~tas3/wtc

Well-Tempered Clavier: Hypermedia Analysis
   Analytical essays and animations by Tim Smith, performance-related essays by David Korevaar, and Korevaar's performances of the music. [Shockwave]
   http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~tas3/wtc.html

mfiles - Johann Sebastian Bach
   Biography and music examples in the form of sheet music and sound files.
   http://www.mfiles.co.uk/composers/johann-sebastian-bach.htm