Dreyfus Laurence. Bach’s Continuo Group: Players and Practice in His Vocal Works

Harvard University Press, 1990. — 274 p.:musical example: tables. - (Studies in the History of Music volume 3)
When Bach's cantatas, masses, passions, and chorales were originally performed under the composer's direction, which instruments played the basso continuo, the line that establishes the harmonic framework?Bach's Continuo Group answers this and other fundamental questions and probes the rationale behind Baroque performance conventions.The Organ and the Harpsichord
The Accompaniment of Recitatives
The Bassoon
The String Instruments in the Continuo Group
Catalog of Original Performance Parts for Bach's Vocal Works
Bach's Continuo Parts Arranged by Date of Performance