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Below is a small sampling of relevant Buxtehude scholarship and resources.
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A recent (2010) catalog of all Buxtehude's works, including cantatas. The document contains publisher information for known print editions of each work.
Friis, Niels. Diderik Buxtehude, den store Dansker: En biografi. Copenhagen: Nordlund, 1945.
Karstädt, Georg. Thematisch-systematisches Verzeichnis der musikalischen Werke von Dietrich Buxtehude : Buxtehude-Werke-Verz. (BuxWV). Wiesbaden: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1974.
Moser, Hans-Joachim. Dietrich Buxtehude: Der Mann und sein Werk. Edition Merseburger 1115. Berlin: Merseburger, 1957.
Pirro, André. Dietrich Buxtehude. Geneva, Switzerland: Minkoff, 1976.
Snyder, Kerala J. Dieterich Buxtehude, Organist in Lübeck. New York : London: Schirmer Books ; Collier Macmillan, 1987.
Bostrom, Kerry L. “The Use of Recitative and the Communal Style in the Solo Cantatas of Dietrich Buxtehude.” Bach 17, no. 3 (1986): 22–32. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41640271.
Buszin, Walter E. “Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707): On the Tercentenary of His Birth.” The Musical Quarterly 23, no. 4 (1937): 465–90. http://www.jstor.org/stable/738896.
Cox, David. “Buxtehude and His Passion Music.” The Musical Times 112, no. 1537 (1971): 232–34. https://doi.org/10.2307/956401.
Gombosi, Otto. “Space Illusion in Baroque Music.” The Choral Journal 25, no. 9 (1985): 5–7. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23546829.
Rathey, Markus. “Buxtehude Vocal Music.” Early Music 39, no. 4 (2011): 639–41. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41502334.
Reid, Susan L. “The Twenty-One SSATB Vocal Works of Dietrich Buxtehude: An Annotated Bibliography.” The Choral Journal 39, no. 4 (1998): 9–20. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23552709.
SALTZER, RUDOLPH. “Interpretation of the Score — The Conductor at Work.” The Choral Journal 10, no. 8 (1970): 10–11. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23543426.
Wollny, Peter, and Stephen Rose. “From Lübeck to Sweden: Thoughts and Observations on the Buxtehude Sources in the Düben Collection.” Early Music 35, no. 3 (2007): 371–83. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30054648.
Ashforth, D. (1964). Dietrich buxtehude: His life and contribution to the development of the lutheran church cantata (Order No. U279859). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (301224481). https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/dietrich-buxtehude-his-life-contribution/docview/301224481/se-2
Board, R. (2006). Dietrich buxtehude's “Membra jesu nostri”: A study in baroque affections and rhetoric (Order No. 3234959). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (305317004). https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/dietrich-buxtehudes-membra-jesu-nostri-study/docview/305317004/se-2
Breitag, P. J. (2003). A conductor's guide to buxtehude's “Jesu, meine freude” (Order No. 1419322). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (305228206). https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/conductors-guide-buxtehudes-jesu-meine-freude/docview/305228206/se-2
Busarow, L. C. (2007). Selected baroque compositions with instrumental accompaniment for amateur choir (Order No. 3262158). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (304831138). https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/selected-baroque-compositions-with-instrumental/docview/304831138/se-2
Cooper, J. (2017). The seven planets in bach, buxtehude, and a dresden ballet of 1678 (Order No. 13836497). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (2184827214). https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/seven-planets-bach-buxtehude-dresden-ballet-1678/docview/2184827214/se-2
Eakin, T. C. (1974). Christmas cantatas: Their history and their place in the contemporary church service (Order No. 13871467). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (2219260258). https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/christmas-cantatas-their-history-place/docview/2219260258/se-2
Holst, R. I. (1995). Toward a stylistic history of the north german "cantata" in the second half of the seventeenth century (Order No. 9542720). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (304246353). https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/toward-stylistic-history-north-german-cantata/docview/304246353/se-2
Johnson, C. W. (2021). Musical rhetoric, the affections and performance considerations for choir in three buxtehude cantatas: Alles, was ihr tut mit worten oder mit werken, BuxWv 4 der herr ist mit mir, BuxWv 15; and jesu meine freude, BuxWv 60 (Order No. 28767826). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (2596293834). https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/musical-rhetoric-affections-performance/docview/2596293834/se-2
Kim, Y. J. (2012). Dieterich buxtehude's membra jesu nostri: An historical overview, analysis and conducting guide (Order No. 3503836). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (1010270366). https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/dieterich-buxtehudes-membra-jesu-nostri/docview/1010270366/se-2
Little, F. E. (1970). Dietrich buxtehude: A study of four sacred cantatas for solo tenor with performing editions (Order No. 10060526). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (1789299795). https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/dietrich-buxtehude-study-four-sacred-cantatas/docview/1789299795/se-2
Roberts, R. (1975). The sacred cantatas of dietrich buxtehude: Their texts and music (Order No. U411724). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (301303005). https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/sacred-cantatas-dietrich-buxtehude-their-texts/docview/301303005/se-2
Seeley, G. S. (1966). A study and performance of seventeenth-century german advent and christmas cantatas (Order No. EP62147). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (1652568249). https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/study-performance-seventeenth-century-german/docview/1652568249/se-2
Simmons, S. (2006). Dialog and dualism: A study of lutheran theology applied to selected buxtehude vocal cantatas (Order No. 3237520). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (305299725). https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/dialog-dualism-study-lutheran-theology-applied/docview/305299725/se-2
Sturk, S. (2009). Development of the german protestant cantata from 1648 to 1722 (Order No. 3376715). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (304961512). https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/development-german-protestant-cantata-1648-1722/docview/304961512/se-2
URNESS, D. E. (1975). A Catalogue Of The Vocal Works Of Dietrich Buxtehude (Order No. 7613454). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (302766207). https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/catalogue-vocal-works-dietrich-buxtehude/docview/302766207/se-2
WHITTEN, R. L. (1966). THE GERMAN BAROQUE CHURCH CANTATA AND ITS USE IN TWENTIETH CENTURY CORPORATE WORSHIP (Order No. 6702130). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (302215754). https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/german-baroque-church-cantata-use-twentieth/docview/302215754/se-2