Partimento
A partimento (ital.) Is a didactically oriented figured or non-figured figured bass part .
history
The partimento developed from the late 17th century in the precursors of the Naples Conservatory and then spread throughout Europe. Well-known Partimento collections are u. a. by Francesco Durante , Fedele Fenaroli , Giovanni Paisiello , Giacomo Tritto and Stanislao Mattei . Many important Italian composers emerged from the Partimento schools. B. Giovanni Battista Pergolesi , Domenico Cimarosa , Vincenzo Bellini , Gaetano Donizetti , Gaspare Spontini or Gioachino Rossini . The rediscovery of the partimento tradition in research, which only began around 2000, has enabled new perspectives on musical training and composition practice in the 18th and 19th centuries. Partimenti play an important role in historical syntax today . Practical courses are also offered at some German music academies (in addition to classical score and figured bass playing).
description
With the help of a partiment, typical models of voice guidance, harmony, form and motifs are practiced. Composition models in partimenti are mainly the octave rule ( scala ), cadences ( cadenze ) and sequences ( movimenti ). There is no strict separation of counterpoint and harmony in the partimento tradition. In the treatises, rules are first presented, followed by exercises of increasing difficulty, from numbered basses to non-numbered basses to fugues .
literature
- Robert Gjerdingen: Music in the Galant Style . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-531371-0 .
- Giovanni Paisiello : Regole per bene accompagnare il partimento o sia il basso fondamentale sopra il harpsichord . (= Practice and Theory of Partimento Game Volume 1), ed. by Ludwig Holtmeier , Johannes Menke and Felix Diergarten, Florian Noetzel Verlag, Wilhelmshaven 2008, ISBN 978-3-7959-0905-5 .
- Giorgio Sanguinetti: The Art of Partimento . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2012, ISBN 978-0-19-539420-7 .
- Peter van Tour: Counterpoint and Partimento . Uppsala Universitet, Uppsala 2015, ISBN 978-91-5549-197-0
- Job IJzerman: Harmony, Counterpoint, Partimento . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2018, ISBN 978-0-19-069501-9
Web links
- Introduction and collection of Partimenti on R. Gjerdingen's website
- The partimenti of Alessandro Scarlatti (D-Hs M / A 251)