To those whom Bach's Passions are great music, and those to whom they are religious experiences, as well as singers, students, musicians and musicologists, welcomed this illuminating work when it first appeared in Great Britain. As the Daily Telegraph said at the time: "to read Mr. Smallman is to see Bach's Passions in a quite new perspective and - though we learn how much he owed to his predecessors - to marvel once again at the depth of feeling with which he infused tradtional forms." Now a new world audience has an opportunity to enjoy the Bach Passions in this light. First published in 1957, the work has been newly enlarged and revised by the author for this edition. Ten new appendices amplify the text in light of recent scholarship; a new bibliography and preface have been added; and the list of passions available in modern editions has been newly revised. In addition, a new frontispiece depicting pages from a musical manuscript of Longaval completes the list of new features which make this fine study more valuable than ever. - Dust jacket.