Music in the Galant Style
Robert O. Gjerdingen
Topics
- Musical Composition
- Musical Analysis
- Music of the Galant Period (Baroque, Classical, and early Romantic)
What do you need this book for?
- Learning how composers composed music during the Galant period.
- Discovering the psychological-compositional patterns of Baroque and Classical composers.
- Playing numerous examples and learning techniques to apply in your compositions.
Description
How did the musician of the Galant period compose music?
An immersion into the psychological-compositional patterns of the composers of the 17th and 18th centuries, through the study and analysis of numerous musical examples.
A book that is certainly very academic and challenging to read in many parts, but also a book capable of enlightening the mind on a new way of seeing music and the compositional process!
