Bach's changing world
Subtitle: voices in the community
By: edited by Carol K. Baron
Contributors: Baron, Carol
Series: Eastman studies in music -- [v. 37]
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Bach, Johann Sebastian, -- 1685-1750; Music -- Social aspects -- Germany -- Leipzig -- History -- 18th century; Music -- Germany -- Leipzig -- Religious aspects -- History -- 18th century
Description: "Bach's Changing World: Voices in the Community studies the community in which Bach spent the last, longest, and most prestigious part of his life: the Leipzig middle class. These essays by prominent musicologists and scholars of religious history and German culture highlight the dynamic religious, social, and political forces that emerged during the composer's lifetime. Using entertainment venues and all forms of commercially produced and distributed literature - "popular" in that world - as well as "official" documents, they explore Leipzig's distinctive middle-class public culture. Contemporary thought was fragmented, intellectually complex, and unable to assimilate the multiplicity of ideas, beliefs, and values that were simultaneously current.

The ambiguities and transitional structures in that early modern world have contributed to the inconsistencies that are part of Bach's legacy." "The essays are complemented by statements (never before translated) about Lutheran church music by two of Bach's close contemporaries, Gottfried Ephraim Scheibel and Johann Kuhnau."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Transitions, transformations, reversals : rethinking Bach's world ; Tumultuous philosophers, pious rebels, revolutionary teachers, pedantic clerics, vengeful bureaucrats, threatened tyrants, worldly mystics : the religious world Bach inherited / Carol K. Baron; title: Family values and dysfunctional families : home life in the moral weeklies and comedies of Bach's Leipzig / John Van Cleve; title: Bach in the midst of religious transition / Joyce L. Irwin; title: Bach's situation in the cultural politics of contemporary Leipzig / Ulrich Siegele; title: The reception of the cantata during Leipzig church services, 1700-1750 / Tanya Kevorkian; title: From salon to Kaffeekranz : gender wars and the coffee cantata in Bach's Leipzig / Katherine R. Goodman; title: A treatise on liturgical text settings (1710) / by Johann Kuhnau; title: Random thoughts about church music in our day (1721) / by Gottfried Ephraim Scheibel