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The Art of Partimento - History, Theory, and Practice (Hardcover)
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The Art of Partimento - History, Theory, and Practice (Hardcover)
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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 vanished in the early nineteenth
century, its legacy lived on in the music of the next generation.
In The Art of Partimento, performer and music-historian Giorgio
Sanguinetti chronicles the history of this long-forgotten
Neapolitan art. Sanguinetti has painstakingly reconstructed the
oral tradition that accompanied these partimento manuscripts, now
scattered throughout Europe. Beginning with the origins of the
partimento in the circles of Corelli, Pasquini, and Alessandro
Scarlatti in Rome and tracing it through the peak of the tradition
in Naples, The Art of Partimento gives a glimpse into the daily
life and work of an eighteenth century composer.
The Art of the Partimento is also a complete practical handbook to
reviving the tradition today. Step by step, Sanguinetti guides the
aspiring composer through elementary realization to more advanced
exercises in diminution, imitation, and motivic coherence. Based on
the teachings of the original masters, Sanguinetti challenges the
reader to become a part of history, providing a variety of original
partimenti in a range of genres, forms, styles, and difficulty
levels along the way and allowing the student to learn the art of
the partimento for themselves at their own pace.
As both history and practical guide, The Art of Partimento presents
a new and innovative way of thinking about music theory.
Sanguinetti's unique approach unites musicology and music theory
with performance, which allows for a richer and deeper
understanding than any one method alone, and offers students and
scholars of composition and music theory the opportunity not only
to understand the life of this fascinating tradition, but to
participate in it as well.
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