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Sex, Death, and Minuets - Anna Magdalena Bach and Her Musical Notebooks (Hardcover)
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Sex, Death, and Minuets - Anna Magdalena Bach and Her Musical Notebooks (Hardcover)
Series: New Material Histories of Music
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At one time a star in her own right as a singer, Anna Magdalena
(1701-60) would go on to become, through her marriage to the older
Johann Sebastian Bach, history's most famous musical wife and
mother. The two musical notebooks belonging to her continue to live
on, beloved by millions of pianists young and old. Yet the
pedagogical utility of this music--long associated with the sound
of children practicing and mothers listening--has encouraged a rosy
and one-sided view of Anna Magdalena as a model of German feminine
domesticity. Sex, Death, and Minuets offers the first in-depth
study of these notebooks and their owner, reanimating Anna
Magdalena as a multifaceted historical subject--at once pious and
bawdy, spirited and tragic. In these pages, we follow Magdalena
from young and flamboyant performer to bereft and impoverished
widow--and visit along the way the coffee house, the raucous
wedding feast, and the family home. David Yearsley explores the
notebooks' more idiosyncratic entries--like its charming ditties on
illicit love and searching ruminations on mortality--against the
backdrop of the social practices and concerns that women shared in
eighteenth-century Lutheran Germany, from status in marriage and
widowhood, to fulfilling professional and domestic roles, money,
fashion, intimacy and sex, and the ever-present sickness and death
of children and spouses. What emerges is a humane portrait of a
musician who embraced the sensuality of song and the uplift of the
keyboard, a sometimes ribald wife and oft-bereaved mother who used
her cherished musical notebooks for piety and play, humor and
devotion--for living and for dying.
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Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
New Material Histories of Music |
Release date: |
April 2019 |
Authors: |
David Yearsley
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
336 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-226-61770-1 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-226-61770-X |
Barcode: |
9780226617701 |
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