A book review is presented for Bach against Modernity, authored by Michael Marissen, by Mark Peters.
Author Biography
Mark Peters, Ph.D., is Professor of Music and director of Thinking and Writing courses at Trinity Christian College. Peters holds a Ph.D. in historical musicology from the University of Pittsburgh. He is author of A Woman’s Voice in Baroque Music: Mariane von Ziegler and J. S. Bach (Ashgate, 2008) and co-editor with Reginald L. Sanders of Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach (Lexington, 2018). His other publications include articles in Bach: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Instituteand the Yale Journal of Music & Religion and chapters in U2 and the Religious Impulse: Take Me Higher (ed. Scott Calhoun) and The Routledge Research Companion to Johann Sebastian Bach (ed. Robin A. Leaver). He is a past-president of the Society for Christian Scholarship in Music (2019-2021) and served as Book Review co-editor of Christian Scholar’s Review (2016-2020). Peters has presented his research at meetings of the American Musicological Society, American Bach Society, Bach Colloquium, and the Society for Christian Scholarship in Music. His current research explores theological, liturgical, poetic, and musical perspectives on the Magnificat in eighteenth-century Germany.
