Music in the Galant Style
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Published:11th Oct '07
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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."
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 * Ludwig Holtmeier, 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 *
ISBN: 9780195313710
Dimensions: 284mm x 219mm x 32mm
Weight: 1488g
528 pages