A woman's voice in baroque music
Subtitle: Mariane von Ziegler and J. S. Bach
By: Mark A. Peters.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hampshire, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780754658108
Subjects: Bach, Johann Sebastian, -- 1685-1750; Ziegler, Mariane von; Women poets, German -- 18th century
Description: "At the end of his second year in Leipzig, J.S. Bach composed nine sacred cantatas to texts by Leipzig poet Mariane von Ziegler (1695-1760). Despite the fact that these cantatas are Bach's only compositions to texts by a female poet, the works have been Largely ignored in the Bach literature." "A Woman s Voice in Baroque Music is the first book to deal in depth with issues of women in music in relation to Bach, and one of the few comprehensive studies of a specific repertory of Bach's sacred cantatas. It therefore provides a significant new perspective on both Ziegler as poet and cantata librettist and Bach as cantata composer."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-184) and index.
Table of contents: title: Woman's voice : Mariane von Ziegler as poet; title: Anonymous voice : Mariane von Ziegler's sacred cantata texts; title: Divine voice : the significance of the vox Christi for Ziegler and for Bach; title: The composer's voice : Bach's compositional procedures in the Ziegler cantatas; title: Woman's voice restored : the reception of the Ziegler cantatas and their significance in Bach's output.