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."

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

Reviews
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 *



Book Information
ISBN 9780195313710
Author Robert Gjerdingen
Format Hardback
Page Count 528
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 1g
Dimensions(mm) 219mm * 284mm * 32mm