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"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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Author:   Robert Gjerdingen (Professor of Music, School of Music, Professor of Music, School of Music, Northwestern University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 21.90cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 28.40cm
Weight:   1.488kg
ISBN:  

9780195313710

ISBN 10:   0195313712
Pages:   528
Publication Date:   11 October 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface 1. Introduction /Part I - Children in Need 2. Little Boys on Their Own 3. Masters Take Up the Challenge 4. Child Labor 5. Institutionalized Apprenticeship 6. Social Class /Part II - Technologies of Training 7. Schemas and Exemplars 8.ASolfeggi and the Acquisition of Style 9.Partimenti and the Power of Improvisation 10. Counterpoint and Collocation 11. Intavolature and the Techniques of Instruments. 12. Dispositions and the Mastery of Complexity Part III - Trial by Contest 13. Little Masters, Real Masters, and Masterpieces 14. The Contest Piece as a Probe of Memory 15. Affordance and the Musical Habitus 16. Predicting Creativity Within a Tradition 17. A Sickly Young Woman Speaks Elegant Harmony Part IV - Transforming Commonplaces 18. The Oval and Cross 19. A Framework for Elaboration 20. The Beaux-Arts Framework 21. A Beaux-Arts Framework for Music 22. Learning Old Music in an Age of Digital Reproduction Appendix A: For Further Study Appendix B: Movimenti, Schemas, and Exemplars Index of Names

Reviews

a strikingly original account that emphasizes the transnational and even iperial matrix of this rise and, by implication, that of the period's most cherished ideals of music, which represents a high achievement indeed Eighteenth-Century Music a dynamic, mobile view of how galant music came about Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland 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. W. Dean Sutcliffe, Music & Letters

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. W. Dean Sutcliffe, Music & Letters

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

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