Partimenti Workshop 2025: Open for Registration!
I want to let you know that the Partimenti Workshop 2025 is now open for enrolment!
This workshop will get your musical creativity flowing, give you reliable and practical tools to improvise, compose, and understand music, and help you trust your musical ideas.
Partimenti
This week we are going to continue with Zingarelli’s first partimenti. Here’s the whole thing, make sure to play the whole thing through before you zoom in on this weeks section.
Free Partimenti Lesson
Remember send me a realization of this partimento—send me a score or a recording of your full creation—for a chance to win a 45-minute partimenti lesson with me!
Also, as we go, feel free to send your recordings or scores of your creations! I will be happy to comment on them.
Try This!
This week lets work on the second phrase.
We’re going to continue exploring lines of counterpoint above the bass. Tasto solo usually means “that a note or section should be played on its own, without harmony,” though in practice this isn’t always the case. I think in this case it means to only play one harmony above all of the eighth notes.
- Try this first one, starting on the octave. Play the intervals in the same rhythmic value as bass. When there are two intervals above a bass note, like at the whole note, play the intervals above like half notes.
- Try this one, starting on the 3rd above the bass.
- Or this one, starting on the 5th above the bass. Starting on the fifth never generates the most interesting line, but it’s always good to explore possibilities!
- Now try making a more florid like, each half note gets two intervals above it, play these like quarter notes.
- Try another more florid line.
Send me a recording or a score of your creation above this bassline. I look forward to hearing them!