Bach's Changing World:: Voices in the Community (Eastman Studies in Music) (Eastman Studies in Music)

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. 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 -- Family Values And Dysfunctional Families : Home Life In The Moral Weeklies And Comedies Of Bach's Leipzig / John Van Cleve -- Bach In The Midst Of Religious Transition / Joyce L. 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 Leipzig / Katherine R. Goodman -- A Treatise On Liturgical Text Settings (1710) / By Johann Kuhnau -- Random Thoughts About Church Music In Our Day (1721) / By Gottfried Ephraim Scheibel. Edited By Carol K. Baron. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. 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. 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 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. 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. 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. 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 to a 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.BR> 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.