Baroque Piety: Religion, Society, and Music in Leipzig, 1650-1750
Editorial ASHGATE PUBLISHING LTD
Festland Spanien
- Verlag ASHGATE PUBLISHING LTD
- ISBN13 9780754654902
- ISBN10 0754654907
- Gegenstandsart Buch
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Musikgeschichte Und -theorieBaroque Piety: Religion, Society, and Music in Leipzig, 1650-1750
Editorial ASHGATE PUBLISHING LTD
Festland Spanien
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Drawing upon a rich array of sources from archives in Leipzig, Dresden and Halle, Dr Tanya Kevorkian illuminates culture in Leipzig before and during J.S. Bach's time spent in the city. Working with these sources, it has been possible to reconstruct the contexts of Baroque and Pietist cultures at key periods in their development much more specifically than has been done previously. Kevorkian shows that high Baroque culture emerged through a combination of traditional frameworks and practices, and an infusion of change that set in from around 1680. For example, new secular arenas appeared, influencing church music and provoking reactions from Pietists, who developed alternative meeting, networking and liturgical styles. The book focuses on the everyday practices and active roles of audiences in public religious life. It examines music performance and reception from the perspectives of both 'ordinary' people and elites. Church services are studied in detail, providing a broad sense of how people behaved and listened to the music. Kevorkian also reconstructs the world of patronage and power of city councillors and clerics as they interacted with other Leipzig inhabitants, and thereby illuminating the working environment of J.S. Bach, Telemann and other musicians. In addition, Kevorkian reconstructs the social history of Pietists in Leipzig from 1688 to the 1730s.