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‘THE TRUE FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPOSITION’: HAYDN'S PARTIMENTO COUNTERPOINT
ABSTRACT In his autobiographical sketch Joseph Haydn claims to have learned the ‘true fundamentals of composition’ from Nicola Porpora. Porpora (1686–1768) was a student of Gaetano Greco at the Conservatorio dei Poveri in Naples and later himself became a maestro at the Conservatorio di San Onofrio, where Francesco Durante also taught.
Felix Diergarten
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Job IJzerman, Harmony, Counterpoint, Partimento: A New Method Inspired by Old Masters, New York: Oxford University Press 2018 [PDF]
Matan Entin
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Partimento – praktyka czy sztuka?
J. Solecka
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The Partimento Tradition in the Shadow of Enlightenment Thought [PDF]
How did Enlightenment ideals influence seventeenth-century music theory and composition pedagogy? This article investigates the relationship between partimento pedagogy and Rameau’s music theories as influenced by Enlightenment thought.
Longenecker, Deborah
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ABSTRACTThe pervasiveness of thoroughbass in eighteenth-century German musical pedagogy is illustrated by the way that it extends from continuo realization exercises and chorale harmonizations to complete fugues. This article seeks to demonstrate how partimento fugue can be construed as the missing link between thoroughbass exercises and fully ...
B. Gingras
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Halévy, fugue d’école und basse donnée [PDF]
Fuge als satztechnische Übung – nach Cherubini die ideale Verbindung von strengem Kontrapunkt und freier Komposition – gehörte im 19. Jahrhundert an nahezu allen musikalischen Ausbildungsinstitutionen zum Standardrepertoire, so auch am Conservatoire de ...
Birger Petersen
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Revisiting the Galant in Gjerdingenian Schemata
ABSTRACT Robert Gjerdingen's schema theory focuses the long‐debated ‘galant’ style concretely onto an inventory of stock musical phrases, or ‘galant schemata’. The rich historico‐cognitive discourse sparked by this growing ‘schematicon’ has provided significant theoretical evidence for their historical situatedness, coherence and objectivity; however ...
Hainian Yu
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Eine neue Quelle zur Generalbasslehre von Johann Joseph Fux [PDF]
Eine neu entdeckte Quelle, die eine Johann Joseph Fux zugeschriebene Generalbasslehre überliefert, wirft erneut die Frage nach der Rolle des Generalbasses in Fux’ Kompositions- und Lehrtätigkeit auf.
Christoph Prendl
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Both of these works help shed light on a field that has been increasingly investigated in recent decades: musical pedagogy in Naples in the 18th century.
Giorgio Sanguinetti
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