Music in the galant style : [being an essay on various schemata characteristic of eighteenth-century music for courtley chambers, chapels, and theaters

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." Music In The Galant Style Is The First Book To Examine The Cognitive Development Of Elite Eighteenth-century Musicians. Hundreds Of Musical Examples From More Than Seventy Composers Illustrate The Standard Patterns That Formed A Core Vocabulary For Aspiring Galant Musicians. These Patterns - Schemata - Provided An Aural Medium Of Exchange Between A Patron And His Or Her Musicians. By Providing A Known Context For Most Phrases And Cadences, The Galant Schemata Helped To Foster A Music Culture In Which The Patron's Public Display Of Taste And Discernment Was A Central Feature. In Documenting The Link Between Training In Partimenti And The Student Musician's Cognitive Development Of A Repertory Of Preferred Schemata, Music In The Galant Style Pioneers A New Approach To This Centuries-old, But Still Living Music Tradition. By Analogy To Historically Informed Performance Practice, The Book Suggests A New Type Of Historically And Cognitively Informed Music Analysis. It Offers A New Set Of Tools To Explore The Very Particular Sense Of Musical Etiquette That Pervaded Contemporary Discourse On Eighteenth-century Music And Its Musicians. The Book Will Help Students, Scholars, Performers, And All Lovers Of Eighteenth-century Music To Develop A Deeper Understanding Of Eighteenth-century Music And To Broaden Their View Of The Repertoire.--jacket. The Romanesca -- The Prinner -- The Fonte -- A Minuet By Giovanni Battista Somis -- The Do-re-mi -- The Monte -- A Theme And Variations By Carl Ditters Von Dittersdorf -- The Meyer -- A Theme And Variations By Joseph Haydn -- Clasulae -- An Andante By Christoph Willibald Gluck -- The Quiescenza -- The Ponte -- A Grave Sostenuto By Baldassare Galuppi -- The Fenaroli -- An Allegro By Carl Ditters Von Dittersdorf -- The Sol-fa-mi -- An Andante By Johann Christian Bach -- The Indugio -- A Cantabile By Simon Leduc -- A Larghetto By Leonardo Leo -- An Andantino By Baldassre Galuppi -- An Andantino Affettuoso By Niccolò Jommelli -- The Child Mozart -- An Allegro By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Il Filo : A Poco Adagio By Joseph Haydn -- A Model Adagio By Johann Joachim Quantz -- A Model Allegro By Francesco Galeazzi -- Summary And Cadenza. Robert O. Gjerdingen. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 481-500) And Indexes.