Music in the Galant Style Book Robert O. Gjerdingen 18th Century Haydn Mozart

Description: This textbook, titled "Music in the Galant Style," is a comprehensive guide for students and musicians alike who are interested in the history and criticism of music, as well as instruction and study on music theory. Published by Oxford University Press, Incorporated in 2007, this hardcover book measures 8.5 inches in length, 10.9 inches in width, and 1.2 inches in height, with a weight of 50.9 ounces. Written by Robert Gjerdingen, this textbook is a valuable resource for those interested in the subject area of music. It is written in English and includes 448 pages of detailed information on music theory and history. This book is perfect for anyone who wants to learn more about music or who is interested in pursuing a degree in music education. 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." "A path-breaking work in musical analysis. Professor Gjerdingen opens the doors into the compositional studios of the 18th century, showing us how characteristic idioms within the galant style that formed a lingua franca among musicians across Europe can be modeled-and easily replicated--by a small number of recurring voice-leading 'schema.' Richly illustrated with diverse musical examples and eye-catching graphics, this remarkable and original study will prove invaluable to all analysts and historians of 18th century music."-Thomas Christensen, Professor of Music, University of Chicago"Gjerdingen's study promises to reframe nearly all the work that scholars have lavished on compositional practice in the eighteenth century by answering a question that no one seems to have asked before now - how were eighteenth-century composers (Italian-born and Italian-trained composers above all) able to produce such massive quantities of music in such a broad spectrum of genres, and to do so with both facility and taste?"--Thomas Bauman, Professor of Musicology, Northwestern University"After reading this text, I came away believing that I had learned much that was new, that I had significantly refined my hearing of galant style, and that I had developed a greater appreciation of music that is generally unfamiliar but deserving of greater performance. One can hardly ask more from any book!"-- William E. Caplin, Professor of Music Theory, McGill University"Music in the galant style must count, both in 18th-century music studies and in music theory, as one of the most significant publications of recent decades."--Early Music

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