Partimento and Continuo Playing in Theory and in Practice

01. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-90-5867-828-7
Verlag: Leuven University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 136 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 411 g

Reihe: Geschriften van het Orpheus Instituut/Collected Writings of the Orpheus Institute

This volume is a collection of essays based on lectures given at the International Orpheus Academy for Music Theory on ‘Music and Theory: Thoroughbass in Practice, Theory, and Improvisation'. Hence the point of departure was not ‘Music Theory' as such, but the interaction between music theory, music history, performance practice, aesthetics, and related sciences. This multidisciplinary approach, with the accent on the interplay between music performance and music theory, is reflected in the contributions to this book.

Thomas Christensen, in his contribution, shows how the development of tonal harmonic theory went hand in hand with the practice of thoroughbass. Both Robert Gjerdingen and Giorgio Sanguinetti focus on the Neapolitan tradition of partimento. Gjerdingen addresses the relation between the realization of partimenti and contrapuntal thinking, illustrated by examples of contrapuntal imitation and combination in partimenti, leading to the ‘partimentofugue'. Sanguinetti elaborates on the history of this partimentofugue from the early 18th until the late 19th century. Rudolf Lutz, finally, presents his use of partimenti in educational practice, giving examples of how reviving this old practice can give new insights to composers, conductors and musicians.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moelants, Dirk

Weitere Mitwirkende

Christensen, Thomas

Gjerdingen, Robert

Sanguinetti, Giorgio

Lutz, Rudolf

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Thomas Christensen
Thoroughbass as music theory

Robert Gjerdingen
Partimenti written to impart a knowledge of counterpoint and composition

Giorgio Sanguinetti
Partimento-fugue: the Neapolitan angle


Rudolf Lutz
The playing of Partimento


Personalia

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Über Autor(innen)

Moelants, Dirk
Dirk Moelants is a viola da gamba player and musicologist working as a Lecturer at the University of Amsterdam and as guest Professor at Ghent University.

Christensen, Thomas
Thomas Christensen is Professor of Music and the Humanities at the University of Chicago.

Gjerdingen, Robert
Robert Gjerdingen is Professor of Music Theory and Cognition at Northwestern University.

Lutz, Rudolf
Rudolf Lutz is Lecturer at the University of Music in Basel, the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, and Artistic Director of the J.S. Bach Foundation in St. Gallen.

Sanguinetti, Giorgio
Giorgio Sanguinetti is Associate Professor at the University of Rome 'Tor Vergata'.