Thesis
J. S. Bach at the coffee house: music as edifying practice
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This thesis proposes a new critical perspective on Bach's Collegium musicum and its performances at a Leipzig coffee house. Based on a range of fresh literary, architectural, and administrative sources, I argue that coffee houses in Bach’s time were highly prestigious, if often controversial performance-venues. As a cultural sphere, they were guided by a neo-humanist ideal, known as 'useful edification' (nützliche Erbauung), which has not been recognised by scholars so far. Yet, applied to...
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+ Arts and Humanities Research Council
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Schwalbach, B
Grant:
2007/134046/University of Oxford/Magdalen College
Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2012
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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- Language:
- English
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- Deposit date:
- 2016-11-15
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- Copyright holder:
- Burkhard Schwalbach
- Copyright date:
- 2012
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