Musica Poetica: Musical-Rhetorical Figures in German Baroque Music Book

	Introduction
Pt. 1	Introduction to the Concepts
	Luther on Music: A Theological Basis for German Baroque Music	3
	Toward Musica Poetica: The Emergence of a German Baroque Music	10
	The Concept of the Affections in German Baroque Music	29
	Principles of Rhetoric in German Baroque Music	57
Pt. 2	Treatises and Sources
	Joachim Burmeister	93
	Johannes Nucius	99
	Joachim Thuringus	103
	Athanasius Kircher	106
	Elias Walther	111
	Christoph Bernhard	112
	Wolfgang Caspar Printz	119
	Johann Georg Ahle	122
	Tomas Baltazar Janovka	125
	Mauritius Johann Vogt	127
	Johann Gottfried Walther	131
	Johann Mattheson	136
	Meinrad Spiess	144
	Johann Adolf Scheibe	148
	Johann Nikolaus Forkel	156
Pt. 3	Definitions and Translations of the Musical-Rhetorical Figures
	Definitions and Translations	167
App. 1	Summary of Figure Definitions	439
App. 2	Summary of Figures by Category	444
App. 3	List of Figures by Author	448
App. 4	Summary of Figures by Author	453
	Bibliography	458
	Index	466