Exploring both the theoretical background of stylus phantasticus (or "fantastic style") and its application by composers and performers, Paul Collins surveys the development of Athanasius Kircher's original concept and its influence, and highlights the intriguing relationship between composition and performance, the concept of fantasy, and the understanding of originality and individuality in seventeenth-century culture.
Exploring both the theoretical background of stylus phantasticus (or "fantastic style") and its application by composers and performers, Paul Collins surveys the development of Athanasius Kircher's original concept and its influence, and highlights the intriguing relationship between composition and performance, the concept of fantasy, and the understanding of originality and individuality in seventeenth-century culture.
Dr Paul Collins is Lecturer in the Department of Music, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland.
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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.
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.
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