| Beyond Bach: Music and Everyday Life in the Eighteenth Century Contributor(s): Talle, Andrew (Author) |
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ISBN: 025208389X ISBN-13: 9780252083891 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Genres & Styles - Classical - History | Europe - Germany - History | Modern - 18th Century |
| Dewey: 786.094 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (1.36 lbs) 376 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany - Chronological Period - 18th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 ledgers, and works of art, Talle brings a fascinating cast of characters to life. These individuals--amateur and professional performers, patrons, instrument builders, and listeners--inhabited a lost world, and Talle's deft expertise teases out the diverse roles music played in their lives and in their relationships with one another. At the same time, his nuanced recreation of keyboard playing's social milieu illuminates the era's reception of Bach's immortal works. |