Music in the Galant Style

"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".


CONTENIDO:

Introduction
The Romanesca
The Prinner
The Fonte
A Minuet by Giovanni Battista Somis
The Do-Re-Mi
The Monte
A Theme and Variations by Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
The Meyer
A Theme and Variations by Joseph Haydn
Clausulae
An Andante by Christopg Willibald Gluck
The Quiescenza
The Ponte
A Grave Sostenuto by Baldassare Galuppi
The Fenaroli
An Allegro by Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
The Sol-Fa-Mi
An Andante by Johann Christian Bach
The Indugio
A Cantabile bu Simon Leduc
A Larghetto by Leonardo Leo
An Andantino by Baldassare Galuppi
An Andantino Affettuoso by Niccolò Jommelli
The Child Mozart
An Allegro by Wolfganf Amadeus Mozart
Il Filo: A Poco Adagio by Joseph Haydn
A Model Adagio by Johann Joachim Quantz
A Model Allegro by Francesco Galeazzi
Summary and Cadenza

Appendix A: Schema Prototypes
Appendix B: Partimenti
Notes
Index of Music Sources
General Index