Includes bibliographical references (pages [210]-224) and index.
Contents:
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.
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