Art of Partimento C

by Giorgio Sanguinetti

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195394208
• ISBN13: 9780195394207
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.3" x 10.0"