The term stylus phantasticus , or fantastic style, was originated, like so much else, by the polymath Athanasius Kircher, who described it as "the most free and unrestrained method of composing, it is bound to nothing, neither to any words nor to a melodic subject." The style originated in Italy when composers of works for non-keyboard instruments began to emulate the improvisatory style of organ toccatas and the like. It was brought over the Alps to German lands by Johann Jakob Froberger. He is not represented on this ...
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The term stylus phantasticus , or fantastic style, was originated, like so much else, by the polymath Athanasius Kircher, who described it as "the most free and unrestrained method of composing, it is bound to nothing, neither to any words nor to a melodic subject." The style originated in Italy when composers of works for non-keyboard instruments began to emulate the improvisatory style of organ toccatas and the like. It was brought over the Alps to German lands by Johann Jakob Froberger. He is not represented on this collection by Baroque violinist Tekla Cunningham and Pacific MusicWorks, for nothing by him for this combination of instruments has survived. However, there are several works by composers from the German-language sphere where the style reached its greatest development: Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, and best of all, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber. In collections of this sort, where there is one "name" composer amid a host of unknowns, listeners may wonder about the degree to which that...
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VARIOUS ARTISTS-Carlo Farina / Giovanni De Macque / Marco Uccellini / Francesco Corbetta / Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli / Giovanni Battista Fontana...-CD.
