Gjerdingen, Robert – Music in the Galant Style

Description

Music in the Galant Style is an authoritative and readily understandable study of the core compositional style of the eighteenth-century.

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 Affettuoso by 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