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Article: Tanya Kevorkian. 2007. Baroque Piety: Religion, Society, and Music in Leipzig, 1650-1750.(Book review)
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- Intersections: Canadian Journal of Music/ Revue Canadienne de Musique
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- March 22, 2008
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Tanya Kevorkian. 2007. Baroque Piety: Religion, Society, and Music in Leipzig, 1650-1750. Aldershot: Ashgate. xiii, 251 pp. ISBN 978-0-7546-5490-2 (paper).
This publication paints a tremendously valuable "big picture" of religion, religious culture, and the conflict between Pietists and non-Pietists in Leipzig during the second half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth century. Judging from the title, music seems to have played a minor role before and during J. S. Bach's tenure as Kantor. Yet Kevorkian opens with a resounding "In August 1730, in a lengthy and impassioned memo to the Leipzig town council, Johann Sebastian Bach complained ...
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