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Beyond Bach: Music and Everyday Life in the Eighteenth Century
Andrew Talle
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Hardback. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 3JF; AVGC4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3963. .
Reverence for J. S. Bach's music and its towering presence in our cultural memory have long affected how people hear his works. In his own time, however, Bach stood as just another figure among a number of composers, many of them more popular with the music-loving public. Eschewing the great composer style of music history, Andrew Talle takes us on a journey that looks at how ordinary people made music in Bach's Germany. Talle focuses in particular on the culture of keyboard playing as lived in public and private. As he ranges through a wealth of documents, instruments, diaries, account ... Read more
Reverence for J. S. Bach's music and its towering presence in our cultural memory have long affected how people hear his works. In his own time, however, Bach stood as just another figure among a number of composers, many of them more popular with the music-loving public. Eschewing the great composer style of music history, Andrew Talle takes us on a journey that looks at how ordinary people made music in Bach's Germany. Talle focuses in particular on the culture of keyboard playing as lived in public and private. As he ranges through a wealth of documents, instruments, diaries, account ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252040849
SKU
V9780252040849
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About Andrew Talle
Andrew Talle teaches musicology at the Peabody Conservatory and is a Gilman Scholar at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the editor of Bach Perspectives, Volume Nine: Bach and His German Contemporaries.
Reviews for Beyond Bach: Music and Everyday Life in the Eighteenth Century
"This book is an outstanding contribution to and expansion of our factual knowledge base regarding eighteenth-century German musical life, with emphasis on the keyboard."
BACH: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute "Beyond Bach is a treasure trove of information about the place of music making in the daily lives of ordinary people in J.S. Bach's Germany. Andrew Talle's ... Read more
BACH: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute "Beyond Bach is a treasure trove of information about the place of music making in the daily lives of ordinary people in J.S. Bach's Germany. Andrew Talle's ... Read more