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 often overlooked. As a music educator who studies improvisation pedagogy, the obsolescence of the practice in the modern pedagogical landscape seems lamentable.Based on my own belief in the potential of this lost tradition to inspire new creative means to musical fluency, the present paper seeks to answer some important questions: What are partimenti?Why do we know so very little of them? How doe...
This article presents a pedagogical approach for teaching modern-day students how to improvise in ei...
When dealing with the difficult issue of determining when and where partimenti came into use, I conj...
In recent years, scholars and musicians have become increasingly interested in the revival of musica...
The technique of partimento developed in eighteenth-century Italy with the purpose of instructing st...
Partimento practice originated in Italy and the most important centre of this art was Naples. In gen...
The purpose of this doctoral dissertation is to examine and advocate for the use of a historical key...
At the height of the Enlightenment, four conservatories in Naples stood at the center of European co...
As a central part of music education in eighteenth-century Neapolitan conservatories, partimenti wer...
In the 18th century, the Italian clavier tradition of partimento was widespread in Europe. It is be...
This presentation investigates the relationship between partimento pedagogy and Rameau’s music theor...
The centrality of thoroughbass to eighteenth-century musical composition has long been recognized; b...
The partimento was a hand-written leaflet that taught eighteenth-century Italian musicians how to co...
Recent research has illuminated a pedagogical approach to keyboard improvisation of the Italian cons...
This volume reflects a multidisciplinary approach, with the accent on the interplay between music pe...
Particularly since the publication of Robert Gjerdingen's Music in the Galant Style (2007), partimen...
This article presents a pedagogical approach for teaching modern-day students how to improvise in ei...
When dealing with the difficult issue of determining when and where partimenti came into use, I conj...
In recent years, scholars and musicians have become increasingly interested in the revival of musica...
The technique of partimento developed in eighteenth-century Italy with the purpose of instructing st...
Partimento practice originated in Italy and the most important centre of this art was Naples. In gen...
The purpose of this doctoral dissertation is to examine and advocate for the use of a historical key...
At the height of the Enlightenment, four conservatories in Naples stood at the center of European co...
As a central part of music education in eighteenth-century Neapolitan conservatories, partimenti wer...
In the 18th century, the Italian clavier tradition of partimento was widespread in Europe. It is be...
This presentation investigates the relationship between partimento pedagogy and Rameau’s music theor...
The centrality of thoroughbass to eighteenth-century musical composition has long been recognized; b...
The partimento was a hand-written leaflet that taught eighteenth-century Italian musicians how to co...
Recent research has illuminated a pedagogical approach to keyboard improvisation of the Italian cons...
This volume reflects a multidisciplinary approach, with the accent on the interplay between music pe...
Particularly since the publication of Robert Gjerdingen's Music in the Galant Style (2007), partimen...
This article presents a pedagogical approach for teaching modern-day students how to improvise in ei...
When dealing with the difficult issue of determining when and where partimenti came into use, I conj...
In recent years, scholars and musicians have become increasingly interested in the revival of musica...