Music in the Galant Style

Author/Contributor(s):	Gjerdingen, Robert
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Date:	11/15/2019
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.