What Is Ars Combinatoria?

Gjerdingen argues that “the fluid mixing and matching of schemata would seem to exemplify perfectly the ars combinatoria [or ‘art of combinations’] … this was a philosophical tradition cited by Riepel and other eighteenth-century musicians” (Gjerdingen, 2007: 99 & 115).

Select Bibliography

Gjerdingen, Robert O. Music in the Galant Style (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007).