Welcome to Try This! Your weekly exploration of musical patterns and partimenti rules. This week we’re going to look at how two master composers—Arcangelo Corelli (1653 – 1713) and Beethoven (1770 – 1827)—realized these patterns in their compositions. Here is last weeks post introducing the ① ④ ⑤ ①. Romantic Bassline Project Is there a […]

Welcome to Try This! Your weekly exploration of musical patterns and partimenti rules. Romantic Bassline Project Is there a harmonic moment that you love in Chopin, either of the Schumann’s Brahms, or Mahler. I’m in the process of analyzing all sorts of romantic period repertoire and creating basslines from that repertoire to explore, improvise with,

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