The essays in this volume use an interdisciplinary approach to explore the cantata's rise as a common musical model with a stable basic structure and highly variable areas of application in 18th century Germany. The cantata fostered and accelerated the societal, aesthetic, and cultural process of dynamization embodied in the idea of the early Enlightenment.

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Wolfgang Hirschmann, Universität Halle-Wittenberg; Dirk Rose, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.