Kevorkian, Tanya.

Baroque piety : religion, society, and music in Leipzig, 1650-1750 / Tanya Kevorkian. - Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007. - ix, 251 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-243) and index.

Congregants' everyday practices -- Experiencing the service -- Seating the religious public : church pews and society -- The producers -- The clergy, the city council, and Leipzig inhabitants -- Elites in and beyond Leipzig : the Dresden court and the consistories -- Leipzig's cantors : status, politics and the adiaphora -- The Pietist alternative -- Sociability and religious protest : the collegia pietatis of 1689-1690 -- The Pietist shadow network -- The construction boom and beyond -- Social change and religious life.

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Public worship--History--Germany--Leipzig--17th century.
Public worship--History--Germany--Leipzig--18th century.
Music--History and criticism.--Germany--Leipzig--17th century
Music--History and criticism.--Germany--Leipzig--18th century
Music--Social aspects.
Music--Religious aspects.
Piety.


Leipzig (Germany)--Church history--17th century.
Leipzig (Germany)--Church history--18th century.

BR855 / .K48 2007

274.3/212207