Music in the Galant Style
Published on 11. October 2007
Book
Hardback
528 pages
978-0-19-531371-0 (ISBN)
Description
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."
Reviews / Votes
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 *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
29 halftones, 299 music examples
Dimensions
Height: 286 mm
Width: 221 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
1573 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-531371-0 (9780195313710)
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Person
Robert Gjerdingen is Professor of Music at Northwestern University's School of Music
Content
1: Introduction
2: The Romanesca
3: The Prinner
4: The Fonte
5: A Minuet by Giovanni Battista Somis
6: The Do-Re-Mi
7: The Monte
8: A Theme and Variations by Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
9: The Meyer
10: A Theme and Variations by Joseph Haydn
11: Clausulae
12: An Andante by Christoph Willibald Gluck
13: The Quiescenza
14: The Ponte
15: A Grave Sostenuto by Baldassare Galuppi
16: The Fenaroli
17: An Allegro by Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
18: The Sol-Fa-Mi
19: An Andante by Johann Christian Bach
20: The Indugio
21: A Cantabile by Simon Leduc
22: A Larghetto by Leonardo Leo
23: An Andantino by Baldassare Galuppi
24: An Andantino Affettuoso by Niccolo Jommelli
25: The Child Mozart
26: An Allegro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
27: II Filo: A Poco Adagio by Joseph Haydn
28: A Model Adagio by Johann Joachim Quantz
29: A Model Allegro by Francesco Galeazzi
30: Summary and Cadenza
Appendix A: Schema Prototypes
Appendix B: Partimenti
Notes
Index of Music Sources
General Index
2: The Romanesca
3: The Prinner
4: The Fonte
5: A Minuet by Giovanni Battista Somis
6: The Do-Re-Mi
7: The Monte
8: A Theme and Variations by Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
9: The Meyer
10: A Theme and Variations by Joseph Haydn
11: Clausulae
12: An Andante by Christoph Willibald Gluck
13: The Quiescenza
14: The Ponte
15: A Grave Sostenuto by Baldassare Galuppi
16: The Fenaroli
17: An Allegro by Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
18: The Sol-Fa-Mi
19: An Andante by Johann Christian Bach
20: The Indugio
21: A Cantabile by Simon Leduc
22: A Larghetto by Leonardo Leo
23: An Andantino by Baldassare Galuppi
24: An Andantino Affettuoso by Niccolo Jommelli
25: The Child Mozart
26: An Allegro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
27: II Filo: A Poco Adagio by Joseph Haydn
28: A Model Adagio by Johann Joachim Quantz
29: A Model Allegro by Francesco Galeazzi
30: Summary and Cadenza
Appendix A: Schema Prototypes
Appendix B: Partimenti
Notes
Index of Music Sources
General Index