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Partimento as improvisation pedagogy: renewing a lost art [PDF]
Throughout the 18thcentury, the practice of partimento flourished in Italian conservatories, spreading eventually to Paris where it functioned as a key pedagogical tool of the "Italian school." Partimenti can be understood to be instructional bass lines, and was used by thousands of classical composers and improvisers across Europe, a fact that is ...
Stéphanie Khoury
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‘THE TRUE FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPOSITION’: HAYDN'S PARTIMENTO COUNTERPOINT [PDF]
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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Applications of partimento towards present-day compositional practices
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.
Sameer Anjur Ramchandran
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Nicolas Bernier’s ‘Principes de composition’ and the Italian partimento tradition
Abstract French compositional treatises penned between c.1600 and c.1750 rarely if ever provide any instructional exercises with basses, from which apprentice composers could create multi-voice pieces by applying the rules described by their authors.
Jean-Paul C. Montagnier
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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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A Study of Partimento : The Rules of Fedele Fenaroli
During the 17th-18th century, composers of the Neapolitan School dominated the western music world. There is a training system in the Neapolitan tradition called "Partimento." Because of their rise, almost every musician by that time had learned or at least got influenced by partimento.
宸 湯
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PARTIMENTO FUGUE IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY GERMANY: A BRIDGE BETWEEN THOROUGHBASS LESSONS AND FUGAL COMPOSITION [PDF]
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 ...
Bruno Gingras
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Partimento – praktyka czy sztuka?
Joanna Solecka
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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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Partimento as a research object in the 21st century musicology [PDF]
Mityukova, Zalina Z.
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