Galant

Proper noun. (music) a musical stylistic term principally occurring during the transition from the Baroque to the Classical period, a few decades either side of 1750, which showed more classically simplistic traits in comparison to the highly embellished and texturally complex precedent in the Baroque period.

This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.

This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.