ABSTRACT
The central foundation for each of the preceding chapters, whether direct or indirect, has been the two concepts of the stylus phantasticus and the stylus hyporchematicus as defined by Athanasius Kircher in 1650 and widely disseminated throughout Europe in the mid-seventeenth century. This final chapter will examine selected resonances of these styles as they moved throughout Europe from the Habsburg lands to influence composers both to the south and the north.
