Music in the Galant Style

Robert Gjerdingen

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."

Contents

• 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 Affettuosoby 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