The Stylus Phantasticus and Free Keyboard Music of the North German Baroque

Contents

• Contents: Preface
• Classifications of musical style during the 17th and early 18th centuries
• Kircher's Musurgia universalis (1650) and the stylus phantasticus
• The stylus phantasticus in 18th-century writings: Janovka, Brossard, Mattheson, Walther, and Grassineau
• The origins of the stylus phantasticus and the style's relationship to rhetoric
• The free keyboard works of the north German organ school and the stylus phantasticus
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index.