galant style

{{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 (sensitive style).{{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 |date= |accessdate=2014-02-24}} Another close relative is rococo style.{{clarify|date=August 2015}} The galant style was drawn in opposition to the strictures of the Baroque style, emphasizing light elegance in place of the Baroque's dignified seriousness and high grandeur.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fuoU7-twCGkC&pg=PA123 |title=Music Listening Today |first=Charles |last=Hoffer |publisher=Cengage Learning |date=2012 |accessdate=2014-02-24 |page=123 |isbn=9780495916147|lccn=2010940572 |edition=4}}{{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 |date=2006-07-01 |accessdate=2014-02-24 |page=69 |isbn=0739042955}}