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Beyond Bach: Music and Everyday Life in the Eighteenth Century de Andrew Talle

Beyond Bach: Music and Everyday Life in the Eighteenth Century

Autor Andrew Talle
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 apr 2017

Ceea ce diferențiază Beyond Bach de alte studii muzicologice este refuzul de a plasa geniul individual în centrul narativ, alegând în schimb să exploreze viața cotidiană a muzicii în Germania secolului al XVIII-lea. În timp ce majoritatea lucrărilor se concentrează pe analiza partiturilor sau pe biografia hagiografică, Andrew Talle ne propune o călătorie socială, investigând cum interacționau oamenii obișnuiți cu sunetul. Ne-a atras atenția rigoarea cu care autorul reconstruiește un univers dispărut, apelând la surse mai puțin convenționale, precum registrele de conturi sau jurnalele personale, pentru a popula scena cu amatori, constructori de instrumente și mecena.

Observăm un accent deosebit pus pe cultura claviaturii, privită nu doar ca exercițiu artistic, ci ca liant social. Această perspectivă transformă lectura într-o experiență imersivă, susținută vizual de fotografii color și tabele detaliate care oferă o structură clară datelor istorice. Lucrarea completează excelent titlul Engaging Bach de Matthew Dirst; dacă acesta din urmă analizează modul în care lucrările pentru claviatură au format canonul Bach prin recepția lor ulterioară, Beyond Bach adaugă dimensiunea umană și materială a momentului zero, arătând cine erau cei care cumpărau instrumentele și cum se integra muzica în rutina lor zilnică.

Apreciem modul în care Andrew Talle reușește să mențină un ton academic elevat, fără a pierde din vedere vitalitatea personajelor sale. Este un volum care nu doar explică muzica, ci o așază înapoi în mâinile celor care au trăit-o, oferind o nuanțare necesară imaginii noastre despre „perioada Bach”.

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ISBN-13: 9780252040849
ISBN-10: 0252040848
Pagini: 376
Ilustrații: 11 color photographs, 4 charts, 10 music examples, 16 tables
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 51 mm
Greutate: 0.79 kg
Editura: University of Illinois Press
Colecția University of Illinois Press

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cercetătorilor și studenților la conservator, dar și amatorilor pasionați de baroc care doresc să înțeleagă contextul social real al epocii. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă inedită asupra modului în care se construiau, se vindeau și se foloseau instrumentele cu claviatură, descoperind că muzica lui Bach nu a existat într-un vid cultural, ci într-o piață vibrantă și competitivă.

Despre autor

Andrew Talle este un cercetător respectat, specializat în istoria socială a muzicii și în opera lui Johann Sebastian Bach. Expertiza sa se concentrează pe intersecția dintre practicile muzicale și viața cotidiană din secolul al XVIII-lea, fiind recunoscut pentru abilitatea de a extrage semnificații profunde din documente de arhivă aparent aride. Prin contribuțiile sale, Talle a reușit să aducă la lumină aspecte uitate ale culturii muzicale germane, oferind o voce celor care au susținut infrastructura artistică a vremii, de la artizani la interpreți amatori.

Descriere scurtă

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 re-creation of keyboard playing's social milieu illuminates the era's reception of Bach's immortal works.

Recenzii

"This book is an outstanding contribution to and expansion of our factual knowledge base regarding eighteenth-century German musical life, with emphasis on the keyboard." --BACH: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute
"This is a fascinating, readable, and well-documented book. . . . Recommended."--Choice

"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 discusses a rich, fascinating, hitherto largely inaccessible source material, and presents it in the form of an engaging, readable narrative, making this book not only appealing to specialists, but also to a more general audience interested in eighteenth-century German music and culture." --Eighteenth-Century Music
"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
"For all its scrupulous erudition and factual density, Talle's writing is eminently readable: unpretentious, lively, and frequently humorous, as he reconstructs the routines and conventions his subjects observed in their musical pursuits. These included the role music played in their social, commercial, and even erotic lives. At times the text reads like a soap opera; at times it is almost a ribald, lascivious page-turner."--Robert L. Marshall, Early Music America
"Beyond Bach is a treasure trove of information about the place of music making in the daily lives of ordinary people in J.S. Bach's Germany. Andrew Talle's careful selection of citations from his fascinating source materials is woven together by easy-to-read prose, resulting in an entertaining and enjoyable read. . . . [Beyond Bach] deserves a place among the classics."--Swedish Journal of Music Research
"I recommend [Beyond Bach] for anybody with an interest in the composer and the world that made him. 18th century Leipzig and its environs come to vivid life -- men, women, music, politics, inns and palaces. We learn a great deal about the "other" composers of the time, and Talle sends us off in search of their music. Learned, sophisticated, not at all condescending and sometimes very funny indeed, Talle's book is both admirable scholarship and a great ‘read.’"--Tim Page, University of Southern California Thorton School of Music

"Beyond Bach is an indispensable text for lovers of eighteenth-century music and anyone who seeks to understand the broad social context of music not only by Bach but also by his contemporaries and adversaries." --Notes

"Andrew Talle's fluent and friendly style brings it all to life in a way that any Germanophile, and any lover of the Baroque, of Bach, and of history would find an irresistible and rewarding read. Very highly recommended!" --American Organist Magazine

"Andrew Talle provides a richly textured discussion of the roles music played in the everyday." --Journal of the American Musicology Society

"Excellently researched and well-presented and engaging. Little has been done in approaching musicians of J. S. Bach's time in Germany through the lens of social history. As one of the first books to do this and to do it very well, Talle's volume marks a major contribution to the field."--Mark Peters, author of A Woman's Voice in Baroque Music: Mariane von Ziegler and J. S. Bach

"Talle's study is meticulously researched and documented, making excellent use of an impressively large number of primary and secondary sources. There is currently nothing like it in any language, and its significance goes well beyond Bach studies."--Steven Zohn, author of Music for a Mixed Taste: Style, Genre, and Meaning in Telemann's Instrumental Works

Notă biografică

Andrew Talle is Associate Professor of Music Studies at the Bienen School of Music of Northwestern University. He is the editor of Bach Perspectives, Volume Nine: Bach and His German Contemporaries.