Sex, Death, and Minuets Anna Magdalena Bach and Her Musical Notebooks
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New Material Histories of Musi
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ePUB 3
Kopierschutz
Nein
Family Sharing
Nein
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
22.12.2022
Verlag
The University of Chicago PressSeitenzahl
360 (Printausgabe)
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4591 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9780226617848
"Insightful commentary on the Bach family's musical life and... the culture in which the Bachs lived.... Important and fascinating... Highly recommended." -
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At one time a star in her own right as a singer, Anna Magdalena (1701-60) would go on to become, through her marriage to the older Johann Sebastian Bach, history's most famous musical wife and mother. The two musical notebooks belonging to her continue to live on, beloved by millions of pianists young and old. Yet the pedagogical utility of this music-long associated with the sound of children practicing and mothers listening-has encouraged a rosy and one-sided view of Anna Magdalena as a model of German feminine domesticity.
Sex, Death, and Minuets offers the first in-depth study of these notebooks, reanimating Anna Magdalena as a historical subject-at once pious and bawdy, spirited and tragic. In these pages, we follow Magdalena from young and flamboyant performer to bereft and impoverished widow. David Yearsley explores the notebooks' entries against the backdrop of the social practices and concerns that women shared in eighteenth-century Lutheran Germany. What emerges is a humane portrait of a musician who embraced the sensuality of song and the uplift of the keyboard, a sometimes ribald wife and oft-bereaved mother who used her cherished musical notebooks for piety and play, humor and devotion-for living and for dying.
"Fascinating." -Laurence Dreyfus, University of Oxford
"Yearsley's account... will doubtless stand as the definitive account of the 'Bachin' and her notebooks for years to come." -Bettina Varwig, University of Cambridge
"A warm, insightful, and compelling portrait." -Matthew Dirst, University of Houston
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At one time a star in her own right as a singer, Anna Magdalena (1701-60) would go on to become, through her marriage to the older Johann Sebastian Bach, history's most famous musical wife and mother. The two musical notebooks belonging to her continue to live on, beloved by millions of pianists young and old. Yet the pedagogical utility of this music-long associated with the sound of children practicing and mothers listening-has encouraged a rosy and one-sided view of Anna Magdalena as a model of German feminine domesticity.
Sex, Death, and Minuets offers the first in-depth study of these notebooks, reanimating Anna Magdalena as a historical subject-at once pious and bawdy, spirited and tragic. In these pages, we follow Magdalena from young and flamboyant performer to bereft and impoverished widow. David Yearsley explores the notebooks' entries against the backdrop of the social practices and concerns that women shared in eighteenth-century Lutheran Germany. What emerges is a humane portrait of a musician who embraced the sensuality of song and the uplift of the keyboard, a sometimes ribald wife and oft-bereaved mother who used her cherished musical notebooks for piety and play, humor and devotion-for living and for dying.
"Fascinating." -Laurence Dreyfus, University of Oxford
"Yearsley's account... will doubtless stand as the definitive account of the 'Bachin' and her notebooks for years to come." -Bettina Varwig, University of Cambridge
"A warm, insightful, and compelling portrait." -Matthew Dirst, University of Houston
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