Bach's Changing World:

Carol K. Baron is Fellow for Life in the Department of Music at Stony Brook University. Carol K. Baron is Fellow for Life in the Department of Music at Stony Brook University.

• Transitions, Transformations, Reversals: Rethinking Bach's World - Carol BaronTumultuous Philosophers, Pious Rebels, Revolutionary Teachers, Pedanti Clerics, Vengeful Bureaucrats, Threatened Tyrants, - Carol BaronFamily Values and Dysfunctional Families: Home Life in the Moral Weeklies and Comedies of Bach's Leipzig - John W. Van CleveBach in the Midst of Religious Transition - Joyce Louise IrwinBach's Situation in the Cultural Politics of Contemporary Leipzig - Ulrich SiegeleThe Reception of the Cantata during Leipzig Church Services, 1700-1750 - Tanya KevorkianFrom Salon to Kaffeekranz: Gender Wars and the Coffee Cantata in Bach's Lei - Katherine R. GoodmanA Treatise on Liturgical Text Settings (1710), by Johann Kuhnau - Ruben WeltschRandom Thoughts About Church Music in Our Day (1721), by Gottfried Ephraim - Joyce Louise Irwin

Offers much insight into the community in which Bach lived and worked. . . . [Katherine R.] Goodman artfully weaves methodologies from gender studies, literary history, and musicology. . . . The translations that end the volume will be useful for musicologists and church historians. . . . The volume is well-illustrated with engravings of everyting from gardens, to Prussian troops, to oil lamps, to the marble altar at St. Thomas' church.