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.
