The Stylus Phantasticus and Free Keyboard Music of the North German Baroque
- Author: Collins, Paul
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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.