The Stylus Phantasticus and Free Keyboard Music of the North German Baroque - Collins, Paul 1965- (Aldershot, Hants Burlington, VT Ashgate, 2005)
Classifications of musical style during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries -- Kircher's musurgia universalis (1650) and the stylus phantasticus -- The stylus phantasticus in eighteenth-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
Includes bibliographical references (p. [210]-224) and index.
Keywords: Kircher, Athanasius -- 1602-1680; Brossard, Sébastien de -- 1655-1730; Mattheson, Johann -- 1681-1764; Walther, Johann Gottfried -- 1684-1748; Grassineau, James -- c. 1715-1769; 17th Century (1601-1700); 18th Century (1701-1800); Keyboard music; Organ; Music philosophy and esthetics; Musical style; Germany