MUSIC IN THE GALANT STYLE C

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.