Music and Urban Life in Baroque Germany

by Tanya Kevorkian

Music and Urban Life in Baroque Germany offers a new narrative of Baroque music, accessible to non-music specialists, in which Tanya Kevorkian defines the era in terms of social dynamics rather than style and genre development. Towns were crucial sites of music-making. Kevorkian explores how performance was integrated into and indispensable to everyday routines, celebrations such as weddings, and political culture. Training and funding likewise...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813947014
• ISBN13: 9780813947013
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.7" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher