Music in the Galant Style

Gjerdingen has provided us with an invaluable inventory of eighteenth-century galant style, a rich resource that captures, explains, and (more or less) codifies familiar musical gestures for our delectation and further investigation.

Auteur

Robert Gjerdingen is Professor of Music at Northwestern University's School of Music

Texte du rabat

Music in the Galant Style is an authoritative and readily understandable study of the core compositional style of the eighteenth-century.

Résumé
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."

Contenu

• 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 Affettuoso by 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