Transitions, Transformations, Reversals: Rethinking Bach's World -
Carol Baron
Tumultuous Philosophers, Pious Rebels, Revolutionary Teachers,
Pedanti Clerics, Vengeful Bureaucrats, Threatened Tyrants, - Carol
Baron
Family Values and Dysfunctional Families: Home Life in the Moral
Weeklies and Comedies of Bach's Leipzig - John W. Van Cleve
Bach in the Midst of Religious Transition - Joyce Louise Irwin
Bach's Situation in the Cultural Politics of Contemporary Leipzig -
Ulrich Siegele
The Reception of the Cantata during Leipzig Church Services,
1700-1750 - Tanya Kevorkian
From Salon to Kaffeekranz: Gender Wars and the Coffee Cantata in
Bach's Lei - Katherine R. Goodman
A Treatise on Liturgical Text Settings (1710), by Johann Kuhnau -
Ruben Weltsch
Random Thoughts About Church Music in Our Day (1721), by Gottfried
Ephraim - Joyce Louise Irwin
Carol K. Baron is Fellow for Life in the Department of Music at Stony Brook University. Carol K. Baron is Fellow for Life in the Department of Music at Stony Brook University.
Offers much insight into the community in which Bach lived and
worked. . . . [Katherine R.] Goodman artfully weaves methodologies
from gender studies, literary history, and musicology. . . . The
translations that end the volume will be useful for musicologists
and church historians. . . . The volume is well-illustrated with
engravings of everyting from gardens, to Prussian troops, to oil
lamps, to the marble altar at St. Thomas' church.
*GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW*
Excellent and thought-provoking. . . . [The] translators [of
Siegele's important essay] have done English readers a great
service. . . . The volume goes some way to combating romanticised
notions of Bach.
*THE CONSORT*
A marvellous account of the Leipzig . . . in which Bach lived and
worked. . . . If you enjoy the Coffee Cantata, read the chapter by
Katherine Goodman on coffee and women poets. . . . This [book]
fascinated me.
*Clifford Bartlett, Early Music Review*
Written in an engaging style, Bach's Changing World is an
informative and satisfying read that makes a substantial
contribution to our understanding of the era in which Bach lived
and worked, whilst also simultaneously providing new or alternative
insights into the life and occasionally the works of the man
himself. --Elise Crean, Queen's University, Belfast, Bach
Bibliography website
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Cogently introduced. . . . An important addition to musical and
theological history. . . . Makes a significant contribution to the
literature on German history and the 18th century.
*CHOICE*
Visually elegant, with a generous selection of illustrations of
Leipzig life [some of them rarely used in modern publications]. By
viewing Bach within his intellectual context, Baron and her
contribuors open an important and stimulating path.
*EARLY MUSIC, 2007*
Carol Baron and her colleagues have done Bach studies a marvelous
service. This volume should prove to be not only a signal
contribution to the too-small bibliography on Bach's cultural
contexts but also a ready resource for its desired growth. General
readers and music lovers, too, will find this accessible book
highly worthwhile. --Michael Marissen, Professor of Music,
Swarthmore College, and author of The Social and Religious Designs
of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos and co-author of An Introduction to
Bach Studies
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