Art of Partimento C

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-539420-7
Verlag: Hurst & Co.

Buch, Englisch, 420 Seiten, Format (B × H): 187 mm x 271 mm, Gewicht: 956 g

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 Neopolitan 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sanguinetti, Giorgio

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikinstrumente Instrumentenunterricht & Lernanleitungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Klassik (ca. 1750-1830)
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Barock (ca. 1600-1750)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part One: History
1. Of Some Odd Musical Manuscripts
2. What are Partimenti?
3.The Partimento in Italy and in Naples
4. The Neapolitan Conservatori: an Historical Outline
5. Teaching Methods in the Conservatories of Naples
6. Partimento Sources: Transmission and Typology
7. A Genealogy of Masters

Part Two: Theory
8. Partimento as Composition Theory
9. The Rules: a Synoptic View

Part Three: Practice
10. Prelude to Realization
11. The Unfigured Partimento
12. The Art of Diminution
13. Imitation
14. Motivic Coherence
15. "Authentic" Realizations

Part Four: A Guide to Realization
16. Lezione, Prelude, Modular Etude
17. Tutti/solo: Concerto and Toccata
18. Sonata
19. Fantasia, Variation, Dance
20. Imitative Genres
21. Fugue
Epilogue
List of Souces
Bibliography
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Giorgio Sanguinetti is Associate Professor of Music Theory at the University of Rome - Tor Vergata.