Discussing Bach 10 (September 2026)

Published on 30 September 2026

Images, Emblems, and Forms

Editors: Andrew Frampton, Barbara M. Reul, and Ruth Tatlow

An edited live discussion recorded on 21 June 2025, with Wendy Heller, Joel Speerstra, Bernd Koska, and Ruth Tatlow, moderated by Andrew Frampton

Video with optional subtitles (CCs)

Editorial Introduction (full text)

Authorised Transcript (full text)

Further reading

Wendy Heller, Emblems of Eloquence: Opera and Women’s Voices in Seventeenth-Century Venice (University of California Press, 2003).

Wendy Heller, ‘Bach and the Soprano Voice’, in Rethinking Bach, ed. Bettina Varwig (Oxford University Press, 2021).

Bernd Koska, Bachs Thomaner als Kantoren in Mitteldeutschland, Forum Mitteldeutsche Barockmusik 9 (Ortus, 2018).

Katelijne Schiltz, Music and Riddle Culture in the Renaissance (Cambridge University Press, 2015).

Ruth Tatlow, Bach and the Riddle of the Number Alphabet (Cambridge University Press, 1991).

Ruth Tatlow, Bach’s Church Cantatas, ABS Guides (Oxford University Press, 2025).

Editorial Team: Andrew Frampton, Barbara M. Reul, and Ruth Tatlow

Technical Support: Larry Molinaro and Yo Tomita
Production Support: Larry Molinaro, John Harrington, Philipp Marx, and James Beckers
With thanks to the Bach-Archiv Leipzig