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Beyond Bach : Music and Everyday Life in the Eighteenth Century / Andrew Talle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Talle, Andrew.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Keyboard players--Germany--Social conditions--18th century.
- Keyboard players.
- Music--Social aspects--Germany--History--18th century.
- Music.
- Germany--Social life and customs--18th century.
- Germany.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (278 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- This work investigates the musical life of Johann Sebastian Bach's Germany from the perspectives of those who lived in it.
- Contents:
- Civilizing instruments
- The mechanic and the tax collector
- A silver merchant's daughter
- A dark-haired dame and her Scottish admirer
- Two teenage countesses
- A marriage rooted in reason
- Male amateur keyboardists
- A blacksmith's son
- May God protect this beautiful organ
- How professional musicians were compensated
- The daily life of an organist.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2017.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780252099342
- 0252099346
- OCLC:
- 958932479
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