Music in the Galant Style

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Robert Gjerdingen (Professor of Music, School of Music, Professor of Music, School of Music, Northwestern University)

Music in the Galant Style

Robert Gjerdingen (Professor of Music, School of Music, Professor of Music, School of Music, Northwestern University)

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Oxford University Press Inc
30 August 2007

Music; Theory of music & musicology; Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750); Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830)

"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."""

By: Robert Gjerdingen (Professor of Music School of Music Professor of Music School of Music Northwestern University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 286mm, Width: 220mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 1.462kg
ISBN: 9780195313710
ISBN 10: 0195313712
Pages: 528
Publication Date: 30 August 2007
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1: Introduction 2: The Romanesca 3: The Prinner 4: The Fonte 5: A Minuet by Giovanni Battista Somis 6: The Do-Re-Mi 7: The Monte 8: A Theme and Variations by Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf 9: The Meyer 10: A Theme and Variations by Joseph Haydn 11: Clausulae 12: An Andante by Christoph Willibald Gluck 13: The Quiescenza 14: The Ponte 15: A Grave Sostenuto by Baldassare Galuppi 16: The Fenaroli 17: An Allegro by Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf 18: The Sol-Fa-Mi 19: An Andante by Johann Christian Bach 20: The Indugio 21: A Cantabile by Simon Leduc 22: A Larghetto by Leonardo Leo 23: An Andantino by Baldassare Galuppi 24: An Andantino Affettuoso by Niccolo Jommelli 25: The Child Mozart 26: An Allegro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 27: II Filo: A Poco Adagio by Joseph Haydn 28: A Model Adagio by Johann Joachim Quantz 29: A Model Allegro by Francesco Galeazzi 30: Summary and Cadenza Appendix A: Schema Prototypes Appendix B: Partimenti Notes Index of Music Sources General Index

Robert Gjerdingen is Professor of Music at Northwestern University's School of Music

Reviews for Music in the Galant Style

a strikingly original account that emphasizes the transnational and even iperial matrix of this rise and, by implication, that of the period's most cherished ideals of music, which represents a high achievement indeed Eighteenth-Century Music a dynamic, mobile view of how galant music came about Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland Gjerdingen has provided us with an invaluable inventory of eighteenth-century galant style, a rich resource that captures, explains, and (more or less) codifies familiar musical gestures for our delectation and further investigation. W. Dean Sutcliffe, Music & Letters