Recent archival discoveries have begun to alter longstanding assumptions about the methods and materials of J. S. Bach’s pedagogy. Contrary to the widespread belief, it was not the ornate, four-part, vocal Choralgesang style that played the central role in Bach’s teaching. Rather, it was the Choralbuch style, where relatively simple thoroughbass chorale harmonizations were improvised at the keyboard. This two-volume series makes these findings accessible to scholars, teachers, and students by providing translations and modern editions of relevant sources from Bach’s circle. Volume one provides a modern pedagogical edition of the thoroughbass chorales in C. P. E. Bach’s New Melodies for Some Chorales in the New Hamburg Chorale Book (1787), thoroughbass exercises from the anonymous “Precepts and Principles” (1738; attributed to Bach’s circle), the first English translation of David Kellner’s enormously popular treatise, True Instruction in Thoroughbass (2nd ed. 1737), a list of thoroughbass rules by J. S. Bach, and a newly created Thoroughbass Primer for Beginners. Volume two is a modern edition of the anonymous Sibley Chorale Book, which has been recently attributed to J. S. Bach’s circle of pupils in Dresden, c.1735.

Volume One
・Sources by J. S. Bach, C. P. E. Bach, and D. Kellner, with a Tutor by D. Remeš. Thoroughbass Primer for Beginners : a brief introduction to the basics of thoroughbass and chorale harmonization / Derek Remeš
・Some Rules of Thoroughbass : a new translation of J. S. Bach's short list of rules on signatures and doubling / J. S. Bach
・The Principles of Playing in Four Parts and The Most Common Cadences : typical sequences and cadences in thoroughbass, likely originating from J. S. Bach's circle / Anonymous, 1738
・New Melodies to Some Songs in the New Hamburg Chorale Book : fourteen figured-bass chorales once published as an appendix to David Kellner's treatise / by C. P. E. Bach
・True Instruction in Thoroughbass : the most popular eighteenth-century thorougbass treatise, which has ties to J. S. Bach's circle / David Kellner

Volume Two
・The Sibley Chorale Book. Remarks on the Sibley Chorale Book
・The Sibley Chorale Book : two-hundred twenty-seven figured-bass chorales likely originating from J. S. Bach's circle / Anonymous, c. 1735
・Index of Melodies in the Sibley Chorale Book