This is the only English translation of this important book by the world's most distinguished Bach scholar. This work is widely regarded as the most authoritative and comprehensive treatment of the Bach cantatas. It begins with a historical survey of the seventeenth-century background to the cantatas, and performance practice issues. The core of the book is a work-by-work study in which each cantata in turn is represented by its libretto, a synopsis of its movements, and a detailed analytical commentary. This format makes it extremely useful as a reference work for anyone listening to, performing in, or studying any of the Bach cantatas. All the cantata librettos are given in German-English parallel text. For the English edition the text has been carefully revised to bring it up to date, taking account of recent Bach scholarship.

该文集收录了音乐理论家韩宝强先生对音乐理论，尤其是音乐声学领域进行研究的文章，涉及“音乐基础理论”、“乐器学”、“律学与音乐形态学”、“音乐听觉心理学”、“计算机与声学技术”等论题。

Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who (when we can discern his personality at all) seems so ordinary, so opaque—and occasionally so intemperate?
John Eliot Gardiner grew up passing one of the only two authentic portraits of Bach every morning and evening on the stairs of his parents’ house, where it hung for safety during World War II. He has been studying and performing Bach ever since, and is now regarded as one of the composer’s greatest living interpreters. The fruits of this lifetime’s immersion are distilled in this remarkable book, grounded in the most recent Bach scholarship but moving far beyond it, and explaining in wonderful detail the ideas on which Bach drew, how he worked, how his music is constructed, how it achieves its effects—and what it can tell us about Bach the man.
Gardiner’s background as a historian has encouraged him to search for ways in which scholarship and performance can cooperate and fruitfully coalesce. This has entailed piecing together the few biographical shards, scrutinizing the music, and watching for those instances when Bach’s personality seems to penetrate the fabric of his notation. Gardiner’s aim is “to give the reader a sense of inhabiting the same experiences and sensations that Bach might have had in the act of music-making. This, I try to show, can help us arrive at a more human likeness discernible in the closely related processes of composing and performing his music.”
It is very rare that such an accomplished performer of music should also be a considerable writer and thinker about it. John Eliot Gardiner takes us as deeply into Bach’s works and mind as perhaps words can. The result is a unique book about one of the greatest of all creative artists.

本书是经典与解释辑刊第42期，论题为“柏拉图与古典乐教”，讨论了音乐在以柏拉图为核心的古典传统中的位置与角色，涉及乐理、音乐政治学、音乐与教化的关系等层面，其中弥漫着一类明显的暗示，即认为，受过良好教育的灵魂，归根结底，应是那种具有乐感的灵魂，音乐教育塑造人的个性，使人获得健全的感受和洞察能力，让人的言谈举止变得优雅，质言之，“人类生活处处皆需节律与和谐”。

Finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. A landmark biography of Bach on the 250th anniversary of the composer's death, written by the leading Bach scholar of our age. Although we have heard the music of J. S. Bach in countless performances and recordings, the composer himself still comes across only as an enigmatic figure in a single familiar portrait. As we mark the 250th anniversary of Bach's death, author Christoph Wolff presents a new picture that brings to life this towering figure of the Baroque era. This engaging new biography portrays Bach as the living, breathing, and sometimes imperfect human being that he was, while bringing to bear all the advances of the last half-century of Bach scholarship. Wolff demonstrates the intimate connection between the composer's life and his music, showing how Bach's superb inventiveness pervaded his career as musician, composer, performer, scholar, and teacher. And throughout, we see Bach in the broader context of his time: its institutions, traditions, and influences. With this highly readable book, Wolff sets a new standard for Bach biography. "A monumental work that must find its way into the library of every musician and every dedicated lover of music."—Isaac Stern "It's unlikely that anyone will fashion a finer tribute to [Bach's] genius."— Los Angeles Times Book Review "A magisterial biographical portrait...necessarily learned, but also user-friendly, helpful and entertainingly informative."— Chicago Tribune "Likely to be the standard one-volume Bach biography for some time to come."— New York Review of Books "A work of clarity worthy of its subject and his music."— Wall Street Journal "Undoubtedly the most important Bach biography since Phillipp Spitta's life written over a century ago."— The New Republic 42 black and white illustrations

《见证：肖斯塔科维奇回忆录》是肖斯塔科维奇口述，由伏尔科夫记录并整理。
肖斯塔科维奇是世界范围内知名的音乐家，他的“肖五”“肖七”等名作早已享誉全球，他本人也成为了符号化的传奇。但是，其个人经历却并不为世人所熟知。在肖氏晚年，他将自己一生的经历做了细致的梳理与回忆。而这本书的出版，改变了无数的指挥家与乐团对其作品演奏的方式。
在书中，他的回忆以灰色调为主：权力的阴影下造成的不可逆转的人格扭曲、面对人性的抉择时失去的珍贵友谊、忠于人格却最终被迫害的悲惨人祸——这些沉重的往事几乎占据了回忆录的大部分篇幅。书中也写到了人性的良善——如其和索列尔金斯基、格拉祖诺夫和图哈切夫斯基等人的真挚友谊。肖氏对朋友们的回忆饱含深情、非常真挚。书中还涉及不少前苏联重要人物：政治、音乐、文学等方面的大人物一一登场亮相。本书文风节制、准确、细致、平和。以一种娓娓道来的方式，带领读者回到那个特殊的年代去再次认识这位知名音乐家——在特殊年代里，为了像人一样活着，他付出的努力与饱受的煎熬。
2015年8月9日肖氏逝世40周年，出版此书以示纪念。

目录
一种精神腐蚀剂.......................伍雍谊
—对我国三十、四十年代黄色歌曲的认识
怎样看待港台“流行歌曲”..............周荫昌
关于“流行音乐”的对话.................瞿维
分清轻音乐与靡靡之音..................丁善德
从衡量靡靡之音的尺寸谈起..............王云阶
因势利导，循循善诱...................周大风
——谈港澳流行庸俗歌曲的渗入
还历史本来面目........................南咏
——关于《何日君再来》的答问
也谈《何日君再来》问世经过.............应国靖
《蔷薇处处开》是一首什么样的歌曲？........陆维
资本主义世界的“流行音乐”.............伍雍谊

一首歌是怎么被造出来的？从没有词、没有曲，到最终被人们听到，这中间都发生了些什么？在我们无法看到的音乐幕后，那些制造了一首首歌曲的音乐人们，他们的世界是怎么样的？这部梁欢自编自导的纪录片电影《音乐的秘密》，希望能为你解答所有的疑惑。

本书从音乐史及其文化背景中探讨音乐符号，从肖邦、贝多芬到西贝柳斯，从尼采到格雷马斯、罗兰•巴尔特，符号学的视角让熟悉的音乐呈现出别样的意义，包括生物的、性别的、超越的等多种层面，如万花筒一般新奇。作者以丰富例证展示了这个相当前沿的学科的独特魅力，梳理出一套具有说服力的音乐“元语言”，旨在为音乐符号学提供一本实用指南。

《音乐百科全书》由中央音乐学院组织全国专业音乐不同学科领域专家学者近500人编纂，分上、下两卷，收录条（词）目4100余条，共计约650万字，并附有170余幅彩色插图。内容由音乐学相关学科、中国音乐史、中国传统音乐（汉族）、中国传统音乐（少数民族）、西方音乐史、作曲技术理论、音乐表演艺术、世界民族音乐、乐器等九个分支组成。
本书的出版将是中国音乐出版业的一件大事，体现出改革开放以来我国音乐学术研究所取得的成就。它不仅将满足广大专业音乐工作者和音乐爱好者的需要，而且也将向世界提供了一种了解中国音乐的有效途径。

本书汇集了2002—2007年间Music in Art曾刊载的部分文章之中译稿，分“上编-图像中的乐器叙事”、“中编-视觉艺术中的音乐表述”、“下编-音乐形象中的文化维度与意义”三部分，共26篇文章。其中，11篇为乐器研究，涉及乐器起源及传播、文化信仰与交流、消费与社会生活、乐器图像志分类、复制技术与装饰、娱乐与性文化、社会阶层与殖民文化遗迹以及哲学意义与文化象征等；其余15篇则分别关注了民居建筑图像中的音乐主题、地域风格的表现方式与象征意义、音乐和谐数学比例的关系、音乐图像及其历史文化语境、崖石刻画与史前人类宗教艺术活动、草图肖像所反映的音乐家性格、圣诗文本和书页图案与音乐表演、货币装帧与音乐政治、收藏爱好与作曲家生活情趣、器皿装饰与音乐神话寓意以及弦乐四重奏的视觉意识形态。

彼得•伊里奇•柴科夫斯基是俄罗斯最著名的浪漫乐派作曲家，成功实现了俄罗斯的民族文化与西方音乐传统的有机融合。他的音乐注重对人的心理刻画，时而热情奔放，时而细腻婉转，具有强烈的感染力，被誉为“俄罗斯之魂”。
《柴科夫斯基和他的世界》收录了七位柴科夫斯基研究专家的八篇专题文 章，通过大量详实的文献资料，全方位、多角度地向我们展示了解柴科夫斯基的个人生活、创作生涯，以及俄罗斯当时广阔的社会文化图景，必将对我们更加清晰透彻地理解这位世界乐坛巨擘及其作品大有裨益。 其中对柴科夫斯基的同性恋、死因及他与俄罗斯白银时代政治与文化之关系，尤其他与契诃夫的交往等，均有详实交代。

本书编选了格伦·古尔德最富代表性的文章，包括一些从未发表的作品，按音乐、表演、媒体等辑分类，在编者精心的编排下，仿佛一部完整的古典乐章，精彩呈现了这位音乐怪杰的玩笑与沉思，堪称是对其音乐人生的最好注释。古尔德的文风精灵古怪，与他的钢琴演奏形成奇妙的呼应。无论是关于贝多芬 、莫扎特、理查·施特劳斯的评论，还是对于马勒、勋伯格创作的理解，他机智幽默的表达中充满真知灼见。对国内众多的古尔德迷来说，本书是一部缺席已久、期待已久、应当第一时间购买收藏的必读之作。

本书介绍了音乐神话；佛国世界的音乐；音声中的哲学；早期佛教与俗乐供养佛僧的音乐；佛教音乐传入中土；中土佛教音乐：唱诵音乐等内容。从一些认识的角度去观察佛教哲学、佛教文学、佛教美术、佛教音乐等新专业异军突起的意义。