The Stylus Phantasticus And Free Keyboard Music Of The North German Baroque

by Paul Collins

2021-01-08 03:29:45

The concept of stylus phantasticus (or ''fantastic style'') as it was expressed in free keyboard music of the north German Baroque forms the focus of this book. Exploring both the theoretical background to the style and its application by composers a... Read more
The concept of stylus phantasticus (or ''fantastic style'') as it was expressed in free keyboard music of the north German Baroque forms the focus of this book. Exploring both the theoretical background to the style and its application by composers and performers, Paul Collins surveys the development of Athanasius Kircher''s original concept and its influence on music theorists such as Brossard, Janovka, Mattheson, and Walther. Turning specifically to fantasist composers of keyboard works, the book examines the keyboard toccatas of Merulo, Fresobaldi, Rossi and Froberger and their influence on north German organists Tunder, Weckmann, Reincken, Buxtehude, Bruhns, Lubeck, Bohm, and Leyding. The free keyboard music of this distinguished group highlights the intriguing relationship at this time between composition and performance, the concept of fantasy, and the understanding of originality and individuality in seventeenth-century culture. Less

Book Details

File size9.21 X 6.14 X 0 in
Print pages248
PublisherRoutledge
Publication date July 7, 2016
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780754634164
PAUL COLLINS is the author of seven books, which have been translated into ten languages. His work has appeared in Slate, New Scientist, and the New York Times, and he is regularly featured on NPR&rsq...

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