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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 reali

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Author

Giorgio Sanguinetti

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199908998

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Technology, History, Music