usic 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 an authoritative and readily understandable study of the core compositional style of the eighteenth-century. Introduction 3(22) The Romanesca 25(20) The Prinner 45(16) The Fonte 61(12) A Minuet 73(4) Giovanni Battista Somis The Do-Re-Mi 77(12) The Monte 89(18) A Theme and Variations 107(4) Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf The Meyer 111(18) A Theme and Variations 129(10) Joseph Haydn Clausulae 139(38) An Andante 177(4) Christoph Willibald Gluck The Quiescenza 181(16) The Ponte 197(20) A Grave Sostenuto 217(8) Baldassare Galuppi The Fenaroli 225(16) An Allegro 241(12) Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf The Sol-Fa-Mi 253(10) An Andante 263(10) Johann Christian Bach The Indugio 273(12) A Cantabile 285(12) Simon Leduc A Larghetto 297(12) Leonardo Leo An Andantino 309(6) Baldassare Galuppi An Andantino Affettuoso 315(18) Niccolo Jommelli The Child Mozart 333(26) An Allegro 359(10) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart II Filo: A Poco Adagio 369(30) Joseph Haydn A Model Adagio 399(16) Johann Joachim Quantz A Model Allegro 415(18) Francesco Galeazzi Summary and Cadenza 433(20) Appendix A: Schema Prototypes 453(12) Appendix B: Partimenti 465(16) Notes 481(20) Index of Music Sources 501(8) General Index 509