| Variant title |
Musical-rhetorical figures in German Baroque music |
| Contents |
Luther on music: a theological basis for German Baroque music -- Toward Musica poetica: the emergence of a German Baroque music -- The concept of the affections in German Baroque music -- Principles of rhetoric in German Baroque music -- Treatises and sources: Joachim Burmeister, Johannes Nucius, Joachim Thuringus, Athanasius Kircher, Elias Walther, Christoph Bernhard, Wolfgang Caspar Prinz, Johann Georg Ahle, Tomáš Baltazar Janovka, Mauritius Johann Vogt, Johann Gottfried Walther, Johann Mattheson, Meinrad Spiess, Johann Adolf Scheibe, Johann Nikolaus Forkel -- Definitions and translations of the musical-rhetorical figures. |
| Abstract |
This book provides an unprecedented examination of the development of Baroque musical thought. The initial chapters, which serve as an introduction to the concept and teachings of musical-rhetorical figures, explore Martin Luther's theology of music, the development of the Baroque concept of musica poetica, the idea of the affections in German Baroque music, and that music's use of the principles and devices of rhetoric. The author then turns to more detailed considerations of the musical-rhetorical figures that were developed in Baroque treatises and publications. After brief biographical sketches of the major theorists, Bartel examines those theorists' interpretations and classifications of the figures. The book concludes with a detailed presentation of the musical-rhetorical figures, in which each theorist's definitions are presented in the original language and in parallel English translations. |
| General note | Revised and enlarged edition of: Handbuch der musikalischen Figurenlehre. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 458-465) and index. |
| Language | Text is in English and German with English translations. |
| LCCN | 97002450 |
| ISBN | 0803212763 (cl : alk. paper) |
