Music in the Galant Style
Author | : Robert Gjerdingen |
Publisher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 527 |
Release | : 2007-10-05 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780195313710 |
ISBN-13 | : 0195313712 |
Rating | : 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Download or read book Music in the Galant Style written by Robert Gjerdingen and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2007-10-05 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."