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."
Produktinformation
Utgivningsdatum2019-12-26
Mått213 x 277 x 25 mm
Vikt1 202 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor528
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780190095819
UtmärkelserWinner of the Society for Music Theory's Wallace Berry Award
Robert Gjerdingen is Professor of Music at Northwestern University's School of Music
1: Introduction2: The Romanesca3: The Prinner4: The Fonte5: A Minuet by Giovanni Battista Somis6: The Do-Re-Mi7: The Monte8: A Theme and Variations by Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf9: The Meyer10: A Theme and Variations by Joseph Haydn11: Clausulae12: An Andante by Christoph Willibald Gluck13: The Quiescenza14: The Ponte15: A Grave Sostenuto by Baldassare Galuppi16: The Fenaroli17: An Allegro by Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf18: The Sol-Fa-Mi19: An Andante by Johann Christian Bach20: The Indugio21: A Cantabile by Simon Leduc22: A Larghetto by Leonardo Leo23: An Andantino by Baldassare Galuppi24: An Andantino AffettuosoÂby Niccolo Jommelli25: The Child Mozart26: An Allegro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart27: II Filo: A Poco Adagio by Joseph Haydn28: A Model Adagio by Johann Joachim Quantz29: A Model Allegro by Francesco Galeazzi30: Summary and CadenzaAppendix A: Schema PrototypesAppendix B: PartimentiNotesIndex of Music SourcesGeneral Index
A path-breaking work in musical analysis. Professor Gjerdingen opens the doors into the compositional studios of the 18th century, showing us how characteristic idioms within the galant style that formed a lingua franca among musicians across Europe can be modeled-and easily replicated