# Galant style

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{{Short description|18th-century movement in music, arts and literature}}
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The '''galant''' style was an 18th-century movement in music, visual arts and literature. In Germany a closely related style was called the ''[empfindsamer Stil](/source/Sensitive_style)'' (sensitive style).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cmed.faculty.ku.edu/private/classical.html |title=The Classical Period (1775-1825) |first=James F. |last=Daugherty |publisher=[University of Kansas](/source/University_of_Kansas) |date= |accessdate=2014-02-24}}</ref> Another close relative is [rococo](/source/rococo) style.{{clarify|date=August 2015}}<!--How close is "close"? The section on music in the linked article, [Rococo#Music](/source/Rococo), says the terms "rococo","galante", and "empfinsamer Stil" are simply the Italian, French, and German terms for the samething.--> The galant style was drawn in opposition to the strictures of the [Baroque](/source/Baroque) style, emphasizing light elegance in place of the Baroque's dignified seriousness and high grandeur.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fuoU7-twCGkC&pg=PA123 |title=Music Listening Today |first=Charles |last=Hoffer |publisher=[Cengage Learning](/source/Cengage_Learning) |date=2012 |accessdate=2014-02-24 |page=123 |isbn=9780495916147|lccn=2010940572 |edition=4}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=axkfh3VAyoIC&pg=PA69 |title=The Baroque Piano: The Influence of Society, Style, and Musical Trends on the Great Piano Composers |editor-first=Nancy |editor-last=Bachus |publisher=[Alfred Music](/source/Alfred_Music) |date=2006-07-01 |accessdate=2014-02-24 |page=69 |isbn=0739042955}}</ref>

==Music==
{{main article|Galant music}}
In music, the galant emphasis was on simplicity, immediacy of appeal, and elegance.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lcsproductions.net/MusicHistory/MusHistRev/Terms/StyleGalant.html |title=Style Galant |publisher=Lcsproductions.net |date= |accessdate=2014-02-24}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zFlxJd07NDoC&dq=galant+architecture&pg=PR14 |title=From Vivaldi to Viotti: A History of the Early Classical Violin Concerto |first=Chappell |last=White |publisher=[Gordon and Breach](/source/Gordon_and_Breach) |date=1994 |accessdate=2014-02-24 |page=xiv |isbn=2881244955}}</ref>

==Fashion==
In fashion, galant featured perfumed [handkerchief](/source/handkerchief)s and [powdered wigs](/source/Wigs) for both sexes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/398976/Western-music/15766/Precursors-of-the-Classical-style#ref363111 |title=Western music: The sonata and concerto |first=Ralph Thomas |last=Daniel |publisher=[Encyclopædia Britannica](/source/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica) |date= |accessdate=2014-02-24}}</ref> The fantastic exotic asymmetry of [bizarre silk](/source/bizarre_silk) patterns were symptomatic of galant tastes.{{Citation needed|date=August 2016}}

==References==
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==External links==
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