Bach Network UK is delighted to announce publication of volume twelve of UNDERSTANDING BACH, our peer reviewed, open access journal. Full texts can be read and downloaded on www.bachnetwork.co.uk/understanding-bach/ub12/ Editorial team: Richard D. P. Jones, Barbara M. Reul, Ruth Tatlow and Yo Tomita RICHARD D. P. JONES, Editorial STEPHEN A. CRIST, A Compositional Testing Ground: Arias in J. S. Bach’s Weimar Church Cantatas GERGELY FAZEKAS, Formal Deviations in the First Kyrie of the B minor Mass MICHAEL MAUL (translated by BARBARA M. REUL), ‘Having to perform and direct the music in the Capellmeister’s stead for two whole years’: Observations on How Bach Understood His Post during the 1740s STACEY DAVIS, Creating Clarity and Contrast: A Dialogue with Rachel Podger on the Analysis and Performance of Implied Polyphony in Bach’s Unaccompanied Violin Works HARRY WHITE, Evangelists of the Postmodern: Reconfigurations of Bach since 1985 YOUNG SCHOLARS’ FORUM NOELLE HEBER, Bach and Money: Sources of Salary and Supplemental Income in Leipzig from 1723 to 1750 HANNAH FRENCH, Bach’s Unsung Champion: Sir Henry J. Wood _______________________________________________ AMS-Announce mailing list and bulletin board: READ THE GUIDELINES prior to submitting a post: http://www.ams-net.org/announce.php TO SEE THE ARCHIVED POSTS: http://listserv.unl.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=AMS-ANNOUNCE TO UNSUBSCRIBE, or switch to/from Digest mode: log in to http://listserv.unl.edu and edit your subscription.