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The Stylus Phantasticus and Free Keyboard Music of the North German Baroque.

0754634167

The stylus phantasticus and free keyboard music of the North German baroque.

Collins, Paul.

Ashgate Publishing Co.

2005

229 pages

$89.95

Hardcover

ML430

Collins (music, U. of Limerick Limerick, city, Republic of Ireland
Limerick, city (1991 pop. 56,083), seat of Co. Limerick, SW Republic of Ireland, at the head of the Shannon estuary. The city has a port with two docks.
, Ireland) examines the fantastic style in keyboard pieces of North German Baroque composers Composers of the Baroque era, ordered by date of birth: Brief Timeline
Early Baroque era composers (born 1550–1600)
Composers of the Early Baroque era include the following figures listed by the probable or proven date of their birth:
  • Giulio Caccini (c.
, through the theoretical underpinnings that originated from Athanasius Kircher

Athanasius Kircher (listen ) (sometimes erroneously spelled Kirchner
 in the seventeenth century and influenced other music theorists during the eighteenth. The study centers on keyboard preludes and toccatas, their application of Kircher's and other theorist's definitions, and how their style changed from one century to the next; it analyzes the music of Italians Frescobaldi, Merulo, and Rossi, and Froberger, Buxtehude, and other German organists This is a list of famous and notable organists.

See also Active concert and church organists
Austria
  • Rupert Gottfried Frieberger (born 1951)
  • Matthias Giesen
  • Hans Haselböck (born 1928)
  • Martin Haselböck (born 1954)
  • Monika Henking
.

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