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    • Baron, Carol K.

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Bach's changing world : voices in the community

edited by Carol K. Baron

(Eastman studies in music)

University of Rochester Press, 2006

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Bach's Changing World is a study of popular culture in the community in which Bach spent the last, the longest, and the most productive part of his life: the Leipzig middle-class. The Leipzig middle-class evolved with the cooperation and gratitude of an extravagant, greedy, and disinterested absolutist ruler. Bach's Changing World documents how this community and other German communities responded toa variety of religious, social, and political demands that emerged during the years of the composer's lifetime. An accepted, admired, and trusted member of this community, as evidenced by the commissions he received for secular celebrations from royalty and members of the middle-class alike -- in addition to functioning as church composer -- Bach shared its values. Contributors: Carol K. Baron, Susan H. Gillespie, Katherine Goodman, Joyce L. Irwin, Tanya Kevorkian, Ulrich Siegele, John Van Cleve, and Ruben Weltsch. Carol K. Baron is Fellow for Life in the Department of Music at Stony Brook University, where she was co-founder and administrator of the Bach Aria Festival and Institute.

Table of Contents

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

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