About Galante music
Galante music is a music genre that emerged in Europe in the 1720s. It is usually classed as a form of Baroque music.
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In music, galant refers to the style which was fashionable in the upper-class societies of Western Europe from the 1720s to the 1770s. In the 19th and 20th centuries, musicologists gave the term a narrower meaning. They used it to describe compositions that moved away from the Baroque's rhetorical formal style, but only partly showed traits of the pre-classical period. The galant style can be seen as a step towards the formally freer, sensitive style, Empfindsamkeit, that prepared the early classical period.
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What is Galante music?
Galante music is a music genre that emerged in Europe in the 1720s. It is usually classed as a form of Baroque music.
Where and when did Galante music originate?
Galante music originated in Europe in the 1720s.