Music in the Galant Style

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.


Author: Robert Gjerdingen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 10/05/2007
Pages: 528
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.28lbs
Size: 11.18h x 8.63w x 1.24d
ISBN: 9780195313710

About the Author

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