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: 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 AffettuosoÂby 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
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