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."
- ISBN10 0199718369
- ISBN13 9780199718368
- Publish Date December 2007
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Edition New ed.
- Format eBook
- Pages 527
- Language English