Title: A woman's voice in baroque music
First published: 2008
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.
Subjects: German Women poets, Women poets, German, Music, baroque, Women musicians, MUSIC, Instruction & Study, Voice, Lyrics, Printed Music, Vocal, Cantatas (Bach, Johann Sebastian)
People: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Mariane von Ziegler
Time periods: 18th century
LC classification: ML410.B1 P425 2008