Russell Stinson is Emeritus Professor of Music at Lyon College (Batesville, Arkansas) and Director of Music at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Wilkesboro, North Carolina. He has served on the faculties of Stony Brook University, the University of Louisville, the University of Michigan, and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and he has been a church and concert organist for over fifty years. His many publications on the music of J. S. Bach include five previous books published by Oxford University Press.