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 kno...

•  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. Inta...