Music in the Galant Style By Robert O. Gjerdingen 9780195313710

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Theory of music & musicology

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Music in the Galant Style : Oxford University Press : 9780195313710 : 0195313712 : 11 Oct 2007 : 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."

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