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Music in the Galant Style

By Robert O. Gjerdingen

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2007
ISBN
0195313712, 9780195313710
LCC
ML240.3 .G54 2007
Open Library ID
OL10135048M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
25 MB (26434196 bytes)
Pages
527\527
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

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."

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