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The Musician in Literature in the Age of Bach
Analysing novels and autobiographies from Bach's Germany, this book presents new insights into the lives, mindset and status of musicians.
German Winter Nights
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Women, Medicine and Theatre 1500–1750
Well illustrated, accessibly presented, and drawing on a comprehensive range of historical documents, including British, German and other European images, and literary as well as non-literary texts (many previously unconsidered in this context), this study offers the first interdisciplinary gendered assessment of early modern performing itinerant healers (mountebanks, charlatans and quacksalvers). As Katritzky shows, quacks, male or female, combined, in widely varying proportions, three elements: the medical, the itinerant and the theatrical. Above all, they were performers. They used theatricality, in its widest possible sense, to attract customers and to promote and advertise their pharmac...
Musical Authorship from Schütz to Bach
Explores the meanings of the term 'author' for seventeenth-century German musicians, examining how compositions were made and used.
Neither Voice nor Heart Alone
In tracing theological approaches to music in the era between Luther and Bach, the author reveals the variety and tension in German Lutheran theology. Both dogmatism and devotionalism helped shape Lutheran spirituality. The introduction of Italian Baroque style into church music, however, evoked controversies which pitted Pietism against Orthodoxy and preachers against musicians.
Transformations of the German Novel
At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the German literary establishment considered the novel the contemptible entertainment of the uneducated. By the end of the century, the novel had eclipsed the epic poem as the most appropriate genre for depicting humankind and its preoccupations. The story of the novel's emergence as a respected and productive artistic genre is intimately bound up with the vicissitudes of the most popular of all German baroque works, Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen's (1621/22-1676) Der abentheurliche Simplicissimus: Teutsch (1668/69). Between 1756 and 1785, Simplicissimus quietly found its way into bookshops three times in radically different forms, in ad...
Wider die Frau
Misogynie ist kein zeitgebundenes Phänomen. Die angeblichen Vorzüge und Fehler von Frauen sind seit der Antike fortwährend Gegenstand und Motiv von Erörterungen gewesen. Frauenfeindlichkeit manifestiert sich auf vielfältige Weise in allen Lebensbereichen und stellt in Geschichte und Gegenwart ein repressives Machtmittel dar. Allerdings manifestiert sich Misogynie niemals als absolute Kategorie, sondern nur in diversen Ausprägungen misogynen Sprechens. Es hat bestimmte diskursive Funktionen zu erfüllen sowie zur Ordnung und Hierarchisierung von Diskursen beizutragen. Die vielfältigen Aspekte misogynen Sprechens in den unterschiedlichen Epochen, Regionen und Kontexten werden in diesem Band aus literaturwissenschaftlicher, sozial- und kulturgeschichtlicher Perspektive beleuchtet.
Bach and the Riddle of the Number Alphabet
In 1947 Friedrich Smend published a study claiming that J. S. Bach used a natural-order alphabet (A = 1 to Z = 24) in his works. He demonstrated that Bach incorporated significant words into his music, and provided himself with a symbolic compositional theme. Here, Dr Tatlow investigates the plausibility of Smend's claims with new evidence, challenging Smend's conclusions.
Theater as Metaphor
The papers of the present volume investigate the potential of the metaphor of life as theater for literary, philosophical, juridical and epistemological discourses from the Middle Ages through modernity, and focusing on traditions as manifold as French, Spanish, Italian, German, Russian and Latin-American.
Composers' Intentions?
This book comprises selected essays concerning musical performance practice by conductor Andrew Parrott, an acknowledged expert in the field. Spanning some thirty-five years of Parrott's career as both performer and researcher, the volume brings together seminal writings on Monteverdi, Purcell and J. S. Bach, as well as an expanded version of a major new article from 2015. With a focus on vocal and choral music, the book covers a broad timespan (from the fourteenth to eighteenth centuries) and multifarious approaches (from extensive scholarly articles to radio broadcasts). Authoritative, provocative and readable, Parrott's writing is packed with detailed information of value to scholars, per...
