Robert Gjerdingen was trained at the University of Pennsylvania under Eugene Narmour, Leonard B. Meyer, and Eugene Wolf. He has written extensively on the subjects of music psychology and eighteenth-century musical style. His book Music in the Galant Style (Oxford: 2007) was awarded the Wallace Berry Award by the Society for Music Theory. He is a former editor of Music Perception and the recipient of six years of support from the National Endowment for the Humanities (USA). His websites Monuments of Partimenti, Monuments of Solfeggi, and The Academic Fugue contain dozens of primary sources used by scholars all over the world.
Contact : r-gjerdingen@northwestern.edu
Séance précomposée - Analyzing Models and Creativity in the Long Eighteenth Century 6.B.2 : Teaching Partimento Analysis and Realization in 19th-Century Paris
