Back موسيقى الغالانت Arabic Estil galant Catalan Galantní styl Czech Den galante stil Danish Galante Musik German Στυλ γκαλάν (μουσική) Greek Música galante Spanish Galant musika Basque موسیقی گالانت Persian Galantti tyyli Finnish
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In music, galant refers to the style which was fashionable in the upper-class societies of Western Europe from the 1720s to the 1770s. In the 19th and 20th centuries, musicologists gave the term a narrower meaning. They used it to describe compositions that moved away from the Baroque's rhetorical formal style, but only partly showed traits of the pre-classical period. The galant style can be seen as a step towards the formally freer, sensitive style, Empfindsamkeit, that prepared the early classical period.