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Solfeggio and Partimento

, 2020
The chapter outlines the way solmization has been described as a “vocal” system at odds with the “keyboard” system of figured bass (partimento).
Nicholas Baragwanath
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Applications of partimento towards present-day compositional practices

, 2020
The technique of partimento developed in eighteenth-century Italy with the purpose of instructing students in improvisation, composition and general musical knowledge. Partimenti took the notational form of a single staff wherein a variety of clef changes could be employed.
S. Ramchandran
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The Art of Partimento: History, Theory, and Practice

Choice Reviews Online, 2012
At the height of the Enlightenment, four conservatories in Naples stood at the center of European composition. Maestros taught their students to compose with unprecedented swiftness and elegance using the partimento, an instructional tool derived from the basso continuo that encouraged improvisation as the path to musical fluency. Although the practice
G. Sanguinetti
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