Music in the Galant Style
Book Details
Author(s)Robert Gjerdingen
PublisherOxford University Press
ISBN / ASIN0195313712
ISBN-139780195313710
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Sales Rank757,642
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Music in the Galant Style is an authoritative and readily understandable study of the core compositional style of the eighteenth century. Gjerdingen adopts a unique approach, based on a massive but little-known corpus of pedagogical workbooks used by the most influential teachers of the century, the Italian partimenti. He has brought this vital repository of compositional methods into confrontation with a set of schemata distilled from an enormous body of eighteenth-century music, much of it known only to specialists, formative of the "galant style."
