“Was wird sich dein Gesang aus Satans Kindern machen?”Cantata BWV 210: "O holder Tag, erwünschte Zeit": A Response by Bach to a Changing Musical Aesthetic

As the Enlightenment took hold in Europe, all aspects of eighteenth-century society felt its effects. Musical tastes, caught in this ideological shift, began to move from the more codified complexity of counterpoint toward the more simplified aesthetic known as galant. Johann Sebastian Bach, now in...

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Main Author: Pauls, Charlene
Other Authors: Johnston, Gregory
Language:en_ca
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/35925