Music and urban life in baroque Germany /
A deeply researched account of musical culture in five early modern German cities (Augsburg, Erfurt, Gotha, Leipzig and Munich) offering a new narrative of Baroque music, one that defines the era in terms of social dynamics rather than style and genre development. As Kevorkian demonstrates, musician...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
[2022].
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| Series: | Studies in early modern German history.
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| Summary: | A deeply researched account of musical culture in five early modern German cities (Augsburg, Erfurt, Gotha, Leipzig and Munich) offering a new narrative of Baroque music, one that defines the era in terms of social dynamics rather than style and genre development. As Kevorkian demonstrates, musicians were much more closely integrated into urban society in the course of their educations, performances and careers than has since become the case. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813947013 0813947014 |