Musica Poetica. Musical-Rhetorical Figures in German Baroque Music, Hardback/Dietrich Bartel

Provides an unprecedented examination of the development of Baroque musical thought. Bartel's clear, detailed analysis of German Baroque musical-rhetorical figures, combined with his careful translations of interpretations of those figures from a wide range of sources, make this book an indispensable introduction and resource for all students of Baroque music.