Table Of ContentTHE STYLUS PHANTAST/GUS AND FREE KEYBOARD
MUSIC OF THE NORTH GERMAN BAROQUE
The Stylus Phantasticus and Free
Keyboard Music of the North
German Baroque
PAUL COLLINS
Mary Immaculate College, University ofL imerick
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Collins, Paul
The sulytS Phantasticus dna Free Keyboard Music of eht North German
Baroque.
.1 Keyboard instrument cisum - Germany- 17th century - History dna
.msicitirc .2 ,elytS .lacisuM .3 Music- ht71 century- Philosophy dna
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The Stylus Phantasticus and Free Keyboard Music of eht North German
Baroque
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Includes bibliographical references dna .xedni
.1 ,elytS .lacisuM .2 Music--17th century--Philosophy dna .scitehtsea
.3 Keyboard instrument music--Germany--17th century--History dna .msicitirc
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NBSI :31 978-0-7546-3416-4 (hbk)
Contents
List ofM usic Examples vi
List of Tables and Figures ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xiii
List ofA bbreviations xiv
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2 Kircher's Musurgia universalis )0561( dna eht stylus phantasticus 92
3 The stylus phantasticus ni yrutnec-htneethgie :sgnitirw ,akvonaJ
,drassorB ,nosehttaM ,rehtlaW dna uaenissarG 35
4 ehT snigiro of eht stylus phantasticus dna eht style's pihsnoitaler ot
cirotehr 17
5 ehT eerf draobyek skrow of eht north namreG nagro loohcs dna eht
stylus phantasticus 90
noisulcnoC 061
Notes 261
Bibliography 012
Index 522
List of Music Examples
1.3 Froberger, Capriccio [II], FbWV 502
(Libra di Capricci e Ricercate, c1658), 1.b 56
2.3 Mattheson, Sonate pour le Clavecin (1713), sb 41-50 66
3.3 Mattheson, Sonata a due Cembali (c1705), sb 57-62 67
1.4 Pandolfi, Third sonata ('La Melana') morf
Sonate a Violin a Solo per Chiesa e Camera ... opera terza
(1660), sb 104-13 74
1.2.4 Merulo, Toccata prima del 5° tono morf Toccate
d'Intavolatura D'Organo ... Libra Secondo (1604), bs 31-2 67
4.2.2 Merulo, Toccata decima dell (f tono morf
Toccate d'Intavolatura D 'Organa ... Libra Secondo
(1604), bs 4---1 76
1.3.4 Frescobaldi, Toccata nona morf II secondo libra
di Toccate d'intavolatura di cembalo e organo (1627/37),
bs 46-8 08
4.3.2 Frescobaldi, Toccata nona morf II secondo libro, sb 24-6 08
3.3.4 Frescobaldi, Toccata nona from// secondo libro, sb 4---16 18
1.4.4 ,issoR Toccata prima morf Toccate e Correnti (c1634),
sb 1-9 38
4.4.2 ,issoR Toccata prima, sb 9-11 48
3.4.4 ,issoR Toccata prima, sb 14-18 48
1.5.4 ,issoR Toccata settima, bs 12-13 58
4.5.2 ,issoR Toccata settima, bs 96--55 68
6.4 ,issoR Toccata terza, sb 8-11 78
1.5 Froberger, Toccata ,VI FbWV 401 (Libro Secondo, ,)9461
sb 1-8 39
1.2.5 Froberger, Toccata ,VI bs 13-17 94
5.2.2 Froberger, Toccata ,VI bs 20-23 59
3.5 Weckmann, Toccata vel praeludium Primi Toni, sb 4---1 96
4.5 Weckmann, Toccata vel praeludium Primi Toni, sb 28-35 96
1.5.5 Froberger, Toccata ,I FbWV 101 (Libro Secondo, ,)9461
bs 1-2 89
a
5.5.2 Louis Couperin, Opening of 'Prelude I' imitation
ed .rM Froberger' 89
1.6.5 Froberger, Toccata V {'da sonarsi alia levatione'),
FbWV 501 (Libra Secondo, ,)9461 bs 6-8 99
5.6.2 Louis Couperin, Extract morf unmeasured prelude
ni F major 99
1.7.5 Froberger, Toccata ,II FbWV 201 (Libro Secondo, ,)9461
sb 4---33 101
List ofM usic Examples iiv
5.7.2 Froberger, Toccata ,III FbWV 301 (Libro Secondo, ,)9461
sb 4--32 101
8.5 Buxtehude, Praeludium inC major, BuxWV ,731
bs 95-103 201
9.5 Froberger, Toccata IV ('da Sonarsi alia Levatione'),
FbWV 601 (Libro Secondo, ,)9461 31.b 301
1.01.5 Tunder, Praeludium ni F major, sb 4--1 501
5.10.2 Tunder, Praeludium ni G minor, sb 4--1 501
3.01.5 Tunder, Praeludium ni G minor, sb 1-6 601
11.5 Tunder, Praeludium ni G minor, sb 50-64 701
5.12 Tunder, Praeludium in G minor (fragment) 801
31.5 Buxtehude, Praeludium ni G minor, BuxWV148, sb 1-5 901
5.14 Weckmann, Toccata ni A minor, sb 1-24 Ill
51.5 Weckmann, Praeambulum Primi inoT a ,5 sb 1-24 211
5.16 Weckmann, Praeambulum Primi Toni a ,5 sb 71-6 411
71.5 Weckmann, Fantasia in D minor, bs 91-111 511
5.18 Weckmann, Toccata in E minor (KN ,)2/741 bs 11-14 611
5.19 Weckmann, Toccata ni E minor (KN ,)3/741 bs 47-56 711
5.20 Anonymous, Praeludium 'a 5 vocum' ni G major
(KN ,)45/511702 sb 103-16 811
12.5 Reincken, Toccata, sb 1-12 ll9
1.22.5 Buxtehude, Praeludium ni F sharp minor, BuxWV146,
bs 14-27 221
5.22.2 Buxtehude, muidu1earP in A major, BuxWV151,
sb 62-75 321
1.32.5 Buxtehude, Praeludium inC major, BuxWV137,
sb 1-11 421
5.23.2 Buxtehude, Praeludium in A minor, BuxWV153,
sb 62-8 521
3.32.5 Buxtehude, Praeludium ni F major, BuxWV145,
bs 120-127 621
5.24 Buxtehude, muidu1earP ni D major, BuxWV139,
bs 1-20 721
1.52.5 Buxtehude, Praeludium ni E major, BuxWV141,
bs 104-10 921
5.25.2 Buxtehude, Praeludium ni F sharp minor, BuxWV146,
bs 48-50 031
1.62.5 Buxtehude, Praeludium ni G minor, BuxWV148,
sb 1-10 231
5.26.2 Buxtehude, Praeludium in G minor, BuxWV148,
bs 11-21 331
5.27 Buxtehude, muidu1earP ni A major, BuxWV151,
bs 1-13 431
5.28 Buxtehude, Praeludium ni F prahs minor, BuxWV146,
bs /79-90 731
iiiv List ofM usic Examples
5.29 Buxtehude, Praeludium ni F prahs minor, BuxWV146,
sb 90-94 831
5.30 Buxtehude, Praeludium ni F sharp minor, BuxWV146,
sb 95-113 931
13.5 Buxtehude, Praeludium ni D major, BuxWV139,
bs 87-94 141
5.32 Buxtehude, Praeludium ni D major, BuxWV139,
sb 95-110 241
1.33.5 Buxtehude, Praeludium inC major, BuxWV138,
sb 65-9 441
5.33.2 Buxtehude, Praeludium ni Emajor, BuxWV141,
sb 73-5 541
5.34 Buxtehude, Toccata ni D ,ronim BuxWV155,
bs 04---521 641
53.5 Bruhns, 'Great' Praeludium in E minor, sb 130-34 841
5.36 Bruhns, 'Great' Praeludium ni E minor, sb 95-7 941
5.37 Bruhns, 'Great' Praeludium ni E minor, sb 110-26 051
83.5 Bruhns, Praeludium ni G major, sb 74-82 251
93.5 ,kcebUL Praeludium ni D minor, sb 1-18 451
5.40 Bohm, Praeludium inC major, bs 74-7 651
14.5 Leyding, Praeludium ni E talf major, sb 103-34 751
List of Tables and Figures
Tables
1.1 Palisca's suggested 'scheme of coordinates' based on
the preface ot Monteverdi's Madrigali guerrieri et
amorosi, libro ottavo (1638) 3
2.1 Summary of Scacchi's threefold classification of
musical styles with subdivisions (after Palisca (1983,
1994) and Bianconi (1987)) 6
3.1 Mattheson's Genera Stylorum and stylistic subdivisions
(1717, p.l31) 52
Figures
1.1 Schematization of Bernhard's style theory (after Mtiller
Blattau (1926), Palisca (1994), and Seidel (1998)) 01
2.1 Frontispiece engraving by .F Baronius (after Johann
Paul Schor) rof Kircher's Musurgia universalis (1650) 21
3.1 Schematization of Kircher's style theory (after Katz
(1926) and Seidel (1998)) 81
1.2 Kircher, 'In lectulo per noctes quesivi', Musurgia, 243-
5 (book )evif 36
2.2 Kircher, Three-voice composition, Musurgia, 311-13
(book )evif 39
1.3.2 Froberger, Fantasia sopra Ut, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La,
opening bars (Musurgia, 466) 42
2.3.2 Froberger, Fantasia, opening bars of section two
(Musurgia, 467) 34
3.3.2 Froberger, Fantasia, opening bars of section three
(Musurgia, 468) 34
2.3.4 Froberger, Fantasia, section four (Musurgia, 471) 44
2.3.5 Froberger, Fantasia, opening bars of section evif
(Musurgia, 471) 54
2.3.6 Froberger, Fantasia, opening bars of section six
(Musurgia, 473) 54
2.3.7 · Froberger, Fantasia, opening bars of section seven
(Musurgia, 474) 46
2.4 Extract morf Colista, Symphonia rof ruof lutes,
Musurgia, 480-81 (book six) 48
5.2 Extract from Allegri, Symphonia for ruof stringed
instruments, Musurgia, 487-9 (book six) 50
