Music in the Galant Style

Music in the Galant Style
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Publisher : OUP USA
Total Pages : 527
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ISBN-10 : 9780195313710
ISBN-13 : 0195313712
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Book Synopsis Music in the Galant Style by : Robert Gjerdingen

Download or read book Music in the Galant Style written by Robert Gjerdingen and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2007-10-05 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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