Title: The stylus phantasticus and free keyboard music of the North German baroque
Description: "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."--Jacket.
Subjects: History and criticism, Keyboard instrument music, Music, Musical Style, Philosophy and aesthetics, Style, musical, Music, philosophy and aesthetics, Keyboard instruments, Style musical, Musique, Philosophie et esthétique, Instrument à clavier, Musique d', Histoire et critique, MUSIC / Musical Instruments / Piano & Keyboard, MUSIC / Printed Music / Percussion, Stylus phantasticus, Tasteninstrument, Muziek, Muziekfilosofie
Places: Germany
Time periods: 17th century