Yo Tomita: List of publications and work in progress

Books

• J. S. Bach's `Das Wohltemperierte Clavier II': A Critical Commentary, 3 vols.
  • Volume I: Autograph Manuscripts (Leeds: Household World, 1993) iv+146p.
  • Volume II: All the Extant Manuscripts (Leeds: Household World, 1995) xxx+1001p.
  • Volume III: Non-Autograph Manuscripts: (planned for future)
• Fugal Composition: A Guide to the Study of Bach's '48' by Joseph Groocock, Edited by Yo Tomita, (Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing, 2003) xiii+230p.
• Bach Studies from Dublin: Selected Papers from the Ninth Biennial Conference on Baroque Music, held in Trinity College Dublin, 12-16 July 2000. Irish Musical Studies, volume 8. Edited by Anne Leahy and Yo Tomita (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004) 272pp.
• International Symposium: Understanding Bach's M-minor Mass. Discussion Book 1 and 2, edited by Yo Tomita, Elise Crean, Ian Mills and Tanja Kovačević (Belfast: School of Music and Sonic Arts, 2007), 511p
• The Genesis and Early History of Bach's Well-tempered Clavier, Book II: a composer and his editions, c.1738-1850 (Aldershot: Ashgate, forthcoming) vol.1: Background; vol.2: Analysis. Prepared jointly with Richard Rastall.
• The Baroque Masters: Bach (Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2011. xxxvii, 574p. ISBN: 978-0-7546-2891-0. (= The Baroque Composers, Series Editor: David Ledbetter)
• Exploring Bach's B-minor Mass (Cambridge University Press, c.2013) xxx, 314p. ISBN: 978-1107007901.
• The Cambridge Bach Encyclopedia (Cambridge University Press, c.2014).
  

Chapters in Books

• "Reading Soul from Manuscripts: Some Observations on Performance Issues in J. S. Bach's Habits of Writing His Music", Essays in Honor of Christopher Hogwood. The Maestro's Direction, ed. Thomas Donahue (Lanham: The Scarecrow Press, 2011), pp. 13-40. [ISBN: 978-0-8108-7737-5]
• "'Most ingenious, most learned, and yet practicable work': The English Reception of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century seen through the Editions Published in London", The Piano in Nineteenth-Century British Culture: Essays on Instruments, Performers and Repertoire, eds. Therese Ellsworth and Susan Wollenberg (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), pp. 33-67. [ISBN-10: 0754661431; ISBN-13: 978-0754661436]
• "Bach and Dresden: A New Hypothesis on the Origin of the Goldberg Variations (BWV 988)", Music and Theology: Essays in Honor of Robin A. Leaver, ed. Daniel Zager (Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2006), pp. 169-192 [ISBN 0810854147]

• "The dawn of the English Bach movement manifested in Sources of the '48'". The English Bach Awakening: Knowledge of J. S. Bach and his Music in England 1750–1830, ed. Michael Kassler (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004), pp. 35-167 [ISBN 1-84014-666-4]
• "Pursuit of Perfection: Stages of Revisions reflected in the Wesley/Horn '48'", ditto, pp. 341-77.
• "Samuel Wesley as Analyst of Bach fugues", ditto, pp. 379-402.
• "Bach's Credo in England: an early history" Irish Musical Studies, viii (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004), pp. 205-227. [ISBN 1-85182-857-5]

• "Streben nach Korrektheit: Samuel Wesley als Herausgeber von Bachs Klavierwerken". Bachs Musik für Tasteninstrumente. Bericht über das 4. Dortmunder Bach-Symposion 2002, ed. Martin Geck (Dortmund: Klangfarben-Musikverlag, 2003), pp. 87-103.

• "Gibt es bisher unbekannte Kanons von Bach? Einige Ergebnisse juengster Forschungen zur Fruehzeit der Bach-Bewegung in England", Leipziger Beiträge zur Bachforschung, v, ed. Ulrich Leisinger (Georg Olms Verlag, 2002), pp. 497-519.

• 『ロンドン自筆譜』と《平均律クラヴィーア曲集》。バッ ハ全集第12巻 （東京・小学館、1998年), 64-83

Journal Articles

• "Mendelssohn and The Schübler Chorales (BWV 645-650): A New Source found in the Riemenschneider Bach Institute Collection",  Bach, xliv/1 (2013), 1-45. (Jointly written with Nobuaki Ebata and Ian Mills)
• "Veiled aspects of Bach Reception in the long Nineteenth Century Exposed through a Macro-examination of Printed Music: with Particular Focus on The Well-Tempered Clavier", Understanding Bach, vii (2012), pp. 20-53.
• "《ロ短調ミサ曲》とバッハ研究： 作品の伝承と楽譜編集史からみる研究上の諸問題"  国立音楽大学音楽研究所年報　第24集　(2012), pp.145-182.
• "The Implications of Bach's Introduction of New Fugal Techniques and Procedures in the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book Two", Understanding Bach, vi (2011), pp. 35-50.
• "《ゴルトベルク変奏曲》の成立をめぐって： 現代におけるピアニストへの一提言" 国立音楽大学音楽研究所年報 第23集 (2011), pp. 91-115.　（注：PDFファイルは校正稿で、頁番号が異なっている）
• "オリジナル資料から学ぶバッハの《パルティータ》　第2番と第6番" 国立音楽大学音楽研究所年報　第22集 (2010), pp. 107-131.
• "Neue Quellen zu Johann Sebastian Bachs Violinsoli (BWV 1001-1006). Zur Rekonstruktion eines wichtigen Überlieferungszweigs" [with Tanja Kovačević], Bach-Jahrbuch, xcv (2009), pp. 49-74.
• "Bachowskie przebudzenie Mozarta - studium kontekstu, Przegląd Muzykologiczny: rocznik Instytutu Muzykologii UW, vii (2009), pp. 191-223.
• "バッハの自筆譜から我々は何を学べるか――演奏者と研究者の永遠の課題"　国立音楽大学音楽学研究所年報 第21集 (2009), pp.159-174.
• "Anna Magdalena as Bach's Copyist", Understanding Bach, ii (2007), pp. 59-76
• "Psalm and the Well-Tempered Clavier II: revisiting the old question of Bach’s source of inspiration" Bach, xxxii/1 (2001), pp. 17-43.
• "Bach and his Early Drafts: Some observations on little known early versions of Well-Tempered Clavier II and the 'Goldberg' Variations from the Manfred Gorke Collection", Bach, xxx/2 (1999), pp. 49-72.
• "Bach Reception in Pre-Classical Vienna: Baron van Swieten's circle edits the 'Well-Tempered Clavier' II" Music and Letters, lxxxi/3 (2000), pp. 364-391.
• "The Online Bach Bibliography", Ariadne, xxvi (Dec.2000) [web journal]
• "Das Wohltemperierte Clavier in England, Abschriften aus dem Besitz von Charles Burney und Friedrich Wilhelm Mapurg", Bach-Jahrbuch, lxxxiv (1999), pp. 143-149.
• "Analysing Bach's Ink through a glass darkly." Musical Times, cxxxix/1865 (Winter 1998), pp. 37-43.
• "The Sources of J. S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier II in Vienna, 1777-1801." Bach, xxix/2 (1998) pp. 8-79.
• "New technology and piano study in higher education: getting the most out of Computer-Controlled Player Pianos" British Journal of Music Education, XIII (1996), pp. 135-141 (written jointly with Graham Barber).
• "Bach, The Font: Inline Music Graphics for Databases and Spreadsheets." Computing in Musicology, ix (1993-94), pp. 61-64.
• "The Spreadsheet in Musicology: An efficient working environment for statistical analysis in text critical study." Musicus, iii (Dec., 1993), pp. 31-37.

Conference Proceedings

• "Breaking the Limits: Some Preliminary Considerations on Introducing an e-Science Model to Source Studies", Musicology and Globalization. Proceedings of the International Congress in Shizuoka 2002 (Tokyo: Academia Press, 2004), pp. 233-7

Dictionary Entries

• "Bach, Johann Sebastian", Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia, ed. Cliff Eisen and Simon Keefe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 38-41.

• "Sources, manuscript" Oxford Composer Companions: J. S. Bach, edited by Malcolm Boyd (Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 457-460.

Critical Edition of Music

• J. S. Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier Teil II. Hrsg. von Yo Tomita (München: G. Henle Verlag, 2007)

On-Line Publication on WWW

• Bach Bibliography (Released on 5 May 1997)
This is a catalogue of Bach-related references with sophisticated search facilities. The search engine of the database is created by Malcolm Vincent, Computing Services, QUB.

Review Articles

• 'Siegbert Rampe, ed., Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier I: Tradition • Entstehung • Funktion • Analyse. Ulrich Siegele zum 70. Geburtstag’, Eighteenth-Century Music, iii/1 (2006), pp. 155-7
• 'Karl Hochreither, Performance Practice of the Instrumental-Vocal Works of Johann Sebastian Bach.’, Eighteenth-Century Music, i/1 (2004), pp. 92-3
• 'News and views' [Bach: the Goldberg Variations by Peter Williams (Cambridge University Press, 2001) vi, 112p] In: The Musical Times, cxlii/1877 (2001), pp. 65-66.
• 'CD Review: J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II, performed on the Harpsichord, Clavichord, Organ and Fortepiano by Robert Levin. Haenssler (CD 92.117)', The American Bach Society Newsletter, Fall 2001, pp. 2-4.
• 'Triple counterpoint' [The Social and Religious Designs of J. S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos by Michael Marissen (Princeton Univ. Press, 1995, 2/1999) 150p; Bach's Works for Solo Violin: Style, Structure, Performance by Joel Lester (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999) x, 186p; The Essential Bach Choir by Andrew Parrott (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2000) xi, 223p] In: The Musical Times, cxli/1871 (2000), pp. 63-67.
• 'Basic Bach' [An Introduction to Bach Studies by Daniel R. Melamed and Michael Marissen (New York, Oxford University Press, 1998), xi + 189 pp. ISBN 0-19-512231-3. In: The Musical Times cxl/1867 (1999), pp. 74-75
• 'A darker Bach' [The New Bach Reader: A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents. Edited by Hans T. David and Arthur Mendel. Revised and Enlarged by Christoph Wolff (New York and London, W. W. Norton, 1998), liv + 551 pp. ISBN 0-393-04558-7; Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis. Kleine Ausgabe (BWV2a) nach der von Wolfgang Schmieder vorgelegten 2. Ausgabe. Herausgegeben von Alfred Duerr und Yoshitake Kobayashi unter Mitarbeit von Kirsten Beisswenger (Wiesbaden, Leipzig and Paris, Breitkopf & Haertel, 1998), xxvii + 490 pp. ISBN 3-7651-0249-0.] In: The Musical Times cxxxix/1865 (1998) 66-68.
• For a full list of my online reviews in the Bach Bibliography, click here.

Select list of CD liner notes (commentaries on Bach's works)

• J. S. Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier II (Masaaki Suzuki, harpsichord, BISCD-1513/14) 2008
• J. S. Bach: The Clavier-Übung II (Masaaki Suzuki, harpsichord, BIS-CD-1) 2006
• J. S. Bach: French Suites (Masaaki Suzuki, harpsichord, BIS-CD-1113/14)  2003
• J. S. Bach: Six Partitas (Masaaki Suzuki, harpsichord, BIS-CD-1313/14)  2002
• J. S. Bach: Clavier-Uebung III (Masaaki Suzuki, organ BIS-CD-1091/92) 2000
• Ｊ・ Ｓ・バッハ《幻想曲とフーガ集》 （チェンバロ：鈴木雅明、キングレコード） 2000
• J. S. Bach: Fantasien und Fugen (Masaaki Suzuki, harpsichord. BIS-CD-1037) 2000
• Ｊ・ Ｓ・バッハ《インヴェンションとシンフォニア》 （チェンバロ：鈴木雅明、キングレコード） 1999
• J. S. Bach: Inventions and Sinfonias (Masaaki Suzuki, harpsichord, BIS-CD-1009) 1999
• Bach's Orchestral Works (Philips) 1997
• Ｊ・ Ｓ・バッハ《ゴールトベルク変奏曲》 （チェンバロ：鈴木雅明、キングレコード） 1997
• J. S. Bach: Goldberg Variations (Masaaki Suzuki, harpsichord. BIS-CD-819) 1997
• J. S. Bach: Das wohltemperierte Klavier, I Teil (Masaaki Suzuki, harpsichord. BIS-CD-813/14) 1996
• Ｊ・ Ｓ・バッハ《平均律クラヴィーア曲集》第一巻　（チェンバロ：鈴木雅明、キングレコードKICC204/5）1996

Last updated: 26 June  2013