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Beyond Bach:

Music and Everyday Life in the Eighteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9780252040849
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
By Andrew Talle
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Local release date: 14/06/2017
Format: Hardback 376 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Western "classical" music [AVGC]

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Google Preview: 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.; "This is a book whose chief strength lies not in the conclusions it draws but in the sheer documentary richness which it delivers, and in bringing vividly to life dimensions of music and music-making which have often been neglected."--British Clavichord Society Newsletter

"Talle's Beyond Bach is rich in tales of those living and working within a vibrant but largely forgotten musical culture who loved this music by Bach and others, and who then recreated it by means of a box of taut strings and ingenious levers."--Limelight Magazine; Google Preview content

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Beyond Bach:

Music and Everyday Life in the Eighteenth Century