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Stephen Rose - The Musician in Literature in the Age of Bach, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

The Musician in Literature in the Age of Bach

Av Stephen Rose

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Using novels and autobiographies from Bach's Germany, Stephen Rose suggests new ways of interpreting the lives and social status of musicians. This study focuses on satirical novels written by musicians that describe the lives of performers and composers, as well as the autobiographies of Bach's contemporaries. These narratives represent musicians variously as picaresque outcasts, honourable craft-workers, foolish bunglers and respected virtuosos. They probe the lives of musicians considered taboo or aberrant in the period, such as street entertainers and Italian castratos. The novels and autobiographies also reveal two major debates that shaped the mindset and social identity of musicians: was music a sensual or rational craft, and should musicians integrate within society or be regarded as outsiders? Quoting from an array of little-known novels, this book shows how an interdisciplinary approach can transform our understanding of Bach and his contemporaries.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2014-07-10
  • Mått: 170 x 244 x 13 mm
  • Vikt: 400 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 248
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9781107428041
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Stephen Rose is Lecturer in Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. His research explores German music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in its social, material and performing contexts. He has contributed to The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music (2005), The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Music (2009) and An Introduction to Music Studies (2008), all published by Cambridge University Press. His articles and reviews have appeared in many publications including Early Music, for which he is also Reviews Editor, and the Journal of the Royal Musical Association. He is active as an organist and harpsichordist.

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'The decades around 1700 saw the publication of a clutch of fictional literature by German writers about music and musicians, a body of works largely overlooked by musicologists so far. Stephen Rose's book … draws attention to this group of sources, in order to shed new light on musical life in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Germany. His study investigates literary works by Johann Beer, Johann Kuhnau, Wolfgang Caspar Printz and Daniel Speer, all of which introduce musical characters as their main protagonists. Through their entertaining, scandalous or moralistic narratives, these novels reflect and engage with a number of prominent contemporary debates: about the role of musicians in society, about music's affective powers and dangers, or about its embattled position between the forces of sense and reason. Rose's detailed exposition of these highly instructive materials raises a host of intriguing questions that invite further thought, research and discussion.' Early Music

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