The big collection is here for all the pianists out there. I know that many of my friends tear there hair out over these pieces. I posted videos of Glenn Gould playing some of these works along with the scores. Listen to him singing if you’ve never heard him play. Thank goodness it doesn’t bleed that far into the real recordings I have of him.
Here are some good resources for those looking to analyze the WTC (courtesy of the aggregation by the first link below):
–http://www2.nau.edu/tas3/wtc/wtc.html
-Christoph Wolff’s lecture series Bach Manuscripts: Recovery of the Hidden Archive
–Complete score of the WTC at the William and Gayle Cook Music Library at Indiana University School of Music
-History of the WTC and primary sources for Book II by Dr. Yo Tomita at Queen’s University, Belfast (Book I and Book II)
-David Ledbetter, Bach’s Well-tempered Clavier: the 48 Preludes and Fugues, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002)
-Joseph Groocock (ed. Yo Tomita), Fugal Composition: A Guide to the Study of Bach’s “48”, (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2003)
-William Renwick, Analyzing Fugue: A Schenkerian Approach, (Pendragon Press, 1995)
-Prout’s Analysis of J.S. Bach’s forty-eight fugues and mnemonics for the 48 subjects of the WTC.
-Bradley Lehman’s work on Bach’s graphic mnemonic for well-tempered intonation
-Aryeh Oron’s stupendous Bach Cantatas Website
-Eric Altschuler, “Bachanaalia: the Essential Listener’s Guide to Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier” (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1994)
-Siglind Bruhn, J.S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier: In-depth Analysis and Interpretation
-Earsense, 48 Jewels
-Imy Fujita, Music of Sacred Temperament
–Glory to God Alone: The Life of J. S. Bach courtesy of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America). This introduction to the life and work of J. S. Bach includes commentary by Christoph Wolff and Robin Leaver.
-Thomas Rossin, video on the discovery and significance of Bach’s Bible
The Bach WTC Books One and Two: