Music in the Galant Style
- Author: Gjerdingen, Robert O.
Gjerdingen has provided us with an invaluable inventory of eighteenth-century galant style, a rich resource that captures, explains, and (more or less) codifies familiar musical gestures for... — More…
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$118.50Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- /Part I - Children in Need
- 2. Little Boys on Their Own
- 3. Masters Take Up the Challenge
- 4. Child Labor
- 5. Institutionalized Apprenticeship
- 6. Social Class
- /Part II - Technologies of Training
- 7. Schemas and Exemplars
- 8.Solfeggi and the Acquisition of Style
- 9.Partimenti and the Power of Improvisation
- 10. Counterpoint and Collocation
- 11. Intavolature and the Techniques of Instruments.
- 12. Dispositions and the Mastery of Complexity
- Part III - Trial by Contest
- 13. Little Masters, Real Masters, and Masterpieces
- 14. The Contest Piece as a Probe of Memory
- 15. Affordance and the Musical Habitus
- 16. Predicting Creativity Within a Tradition
- 17. A Sickly Young Woman Speaks Elegant Harmony
- Part IV - Transforming Commonplaces
- 18. The Oval and Cross
- 19. A Framework for Elaboration
- 20. The Beaux-Arts Framework
- 21. A Beaux-Arts Framework for Music
- 22. Learning Old Music in an Age of Digital Reproduction
- Appendix A: For Further Study
- Appendix B: Movimenti, Schemas, and Exemplars
- Index of Names
