
Music in the Galant Style
Robert Gjerdingen(Author)
Oxford University Press Inc
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)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions

Robert Gjerdingen
Music in the Galant Style
Book
12/2019
Oxford University Press Inc
€69.10
Shipment within 15-20 days

Robert Gjerdingen
Music in the Galant Style
E-Book
10/2007
1st Edition
OUP eBook
€54.49
Available for download

Robert Gjerdingen
Music in the Galant Style
E-Book
10/2007
1st Edition
OUP eBook
€24.99
Available for download
Person
Robert Gjerdingen is Professor of Music at Northwestern University's School of Music
Author
Professor of Music, School of MusicProfessor of Music, School of Music, Northwestern University
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