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    This one-credit course introduces students to Neapolitan partimento study and 18th century keyboard improvisation techniques. Students will develop skills in solving and performing partimenti, and displaying familiarity with 18th century concepts and rules. The course meets selected Tuesdays and involves preliminary work including assembling a workbook and listening assignments. Students will complete 10 partimento assignments over the 10 weeks involving improvising in different styles. The final project involves an improvised in-class performance using techniques learned. Grading is based on preliminary work, weekly assignments, and the final performance.

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    This one-credit course introduces students to Neapolitan partimento study and 18th century keyboard improvisation techniques. Students will develop skills in solving and performing partimenti, and displaying familiarity with 18th century concepts and rules. The course meets selected Tuesdays and involves preliminary work including assembling a workbook and listening assignments. Students will complete 10 partimento assignments over the 10 weeks involving improvising in different styles. The final project involves an improvised in-class performance using techniques learned. Grading is based on preliminary work, weekly assignments, and the final performance.

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    This one-credit course introduces students to Neapolitan partimento study and 18th century keyboard improvisation techniques. Students will develop skills in solving and performing partimenti, and displaying familiarity with 18th century concepts and rules. The course meets selected Tuesdays and involves preliminary work including assembling a workbook and listening assignments. Students will complete 10 partimento assignments over the 10 weeks involving improvising in different styles. The final project involves an improvised in-class performance using techniques learned. Grading is based on preliminary work, weekly assignments, and the final performance.

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    This one-credit course introduces students to Neapolitan partimento study and 18th century keyboard improvisation techniques. Students will develop skills in solving and performing partimenti, and displaying familiarity with 18th century concepts and rules. The course meets selected Tuesdays and involves preliminary work including assembling a workbook and listening assignments. Students will complete 10 partimento assignments over the 10 weeks involving improvising in different styles. The final project involves an improvised in-class performance using techniques learned. Grading is based on preliminary work, weekly assignments, and the final performance.

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    The key takeaways are that the course teaches 18th century keyboard improvisation techniques through the study and performance of Neapolitan partimenti. Students will learn to solve and improvise on partimenti using various bass motions and cadential formulas.

    Partimenti are figured bass exercises used to teach improvisation. They provide the bass line and figures/symbols above it to indicate the chords. The purpose of partimenti is to train musicians to spontaneously improvise polyphonic music following the rules of 18th century counterpoint and harmony.

    Some of the techniques taught include the Rule of the Octave, cadences, terminazioni, descending alternating thirds bass motion, ascending 5-6 bass motion, C5 bass motion, and tied bass motion. Students will learn to combine these techniques in their improvisations.

    Course Syllabus

    Special Topics in Music: Improvisation


    (Historic Improvisation Through Partimento)
    GMUS 4980-01
    Fall 2019
    1 Credit
    Instructor: John Mortensen, DMA

    Course Description:
    Introduction to Neapolitan partimento study as a foundation for keyboard improvisation in 18th
    century styles.

    Course Objectives:

    Students will develop skills concerning solving and performance of partimenti.

    Students will display familiarity with the concepts and rules of partimento.

    Students will realize and perform partimenti with a high level of proficiency.

    Texts: Giovanni Furno, Metodo facilie breve e chiaro (1817), and Fedele Fenaroli, Regole
    Musicali (1775).

    Course Format: Workshop and discussion.

    Meeting Time: Selected Tuesdays 5-6 pm, other times as arranged.


    Preliminary Work (to be completed before the course begins):

    Students will assemble a personal zibaldone consisting of a three-ring binder with manuscript
    paper and handouts. The zibaldone is to be brought to each class meeting. On the first day of
    class it must contain manuscript, treatises of Furno and Fenaroli, and the Gjerdingen article.
    Students will create a video of themselves playing Rule of the Octave in block chords with
    metronome = 80. One chord per metronome click. Any reasonably melodic configuration of the
    soprano is acceptable, but there must be no parallel fifths or octaves between soprano and bass.
    Students may pause between keys, but within each key the RO chords must be played with no
    stopping and no mistakes. Keys are to be played in this order:
    A/F#m/D/Bm/G/Em/C/Am/F/Dm/Bb/Gm/Eb/Cm.
    Video must be submitted electronically by 5 pm EST August 15, 2019. Videos should be hosted
    online (YouTube, etc). Students will submit a link to the hosted video, not the actual video file.

    Read Gjerdingen article and Furno and Fenaroli rules. Print and keep in zibaldone.

    Listen to the complete Keyboard Styles playlist with careful, undivided attention (no multi-
    tasking) and following the score (either scrolling video or provided as pdf).
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpyMjpj5yGK2XSfp1X9J0Wi3a0vwGGAJe

    Course Schedule:

    Week 1
    Due: Assembled zibaldone.
    Topic: Solving partimento. 4-6 Exceptions. Figuration style, unmeasured fantasia style.
    Assignment: Furno Partimenti #1. Improvise on Rule of the Octave in major.

    Week 2
    Due: Video of Furno #1. Metronome = 80, transposed one accidental in each direction, block
    chords, fantasia, and 3-voice and 4-voice figuration.
    Topic: Solving partimento.
    Assignment: Furno Partimento #2. Improvise on Rule of the Octave in minor.
    Week 3
    Due: Video of Furno #2. Metronome = 80, transposed one accidental in each direction, block
    chords, fantasia, and 3-voice and 4-voice figuration.
    Topic: Cadences
    Assignment: Furno Partimento #3. Improvise on Rule of the Octave but include all types of
    cadences.

    Week 4
    Due: Furno #3. Metronome = 80, transposed one accidental in each direction, block chords,
    fantasia, and 3-voice and 4-voice figuration.
    Topic: Terminazioni
    Assignments: Furno Partimenti #4-5. Improvise on several keys in RO, using Terminizioni.

    Week 5
    Due: Partimenti #4-5. Metronome = 80, transposed one accidental in each direction, block
    chords, fantasia, and 3-voice and 4-voice figuration.
    Topic: Bass Motion: Descending Alternating Thirds
    Assignment: Partimento #6. Improvise on RO, DA3, Cadences, and Terminazioni.

    Week 6
    Due: Partimento #6. Metronome = 80, transposed one accidental in each direction, block
    chords, fantasia, and 3-voice and 4-voice figuration.
    Topic: Bass Motion: Ascending 5-6
    Assignment: Partimento #7. Improvise on DA3, Asc 5-6, Terminazioni, and Cadences.

    Week 7
    Due: Partimento #7. Metronome = 80, transposed one accidental in each direction, block chords,
    fantasia, and 3-voice and 4-voice figuration.
    Topic: Bass Motion: C5
    Assignment: Partimento #8. Improvise on C5, DA3, Asc 5-6, Terminazioni, and Cadences.
    Week 8
    Due: Partimenti #8. Metronome = 80, transposed one accidental in each direction, block chords,
    fantasia, and 3-voice and 4-voice figuration.
    Topic: Bass Motion: Tied Bass
    Assignment: Partimento #9. Improvise on Tied Bass, C5, DA3, Terminazioni, and Cadences.

    Week 9
    Due: Partimento #9. Metronome = 80, transposed one accidental in each direction, block
    chords, fantasia, and 3-voice and 4-voice figuration.
    Topic: Review
    Assignment: Partimento #10. Improvise using all techniques.

    Week 10
    Due: Partimento #10. Metronome = 80, transposed one accidental in each direction, block
    chords, fantasia, and 3-voice and 4-voice figuration.
    Topic: Review
    Assignment: Improvise using all techniques.

    Final Project
    The final project will consist of a public improvised performance using partimento techniques.
    The performance will take place on Tuesday 12 November 2019. First, students will perform a
    realized partimento, using a printed partimento as a guide, but with no written realization.
    Choice of partimento must be approved by the instructor. Second, students will perform a free
    improvisation, using a combination of fantasia and figuration, using as many techniques from the
    class as possible (RO, Cadences, Terminazioni, DA3, Asc 5-6, C5, Tied Bass).

    Grading
    Preliminary Preparation: 20%
    Weekly Assignments: 50%
    Final Project: 30%
    Academic Dishonesty: A student found to have committed an act of academic dishonesty will
    receive a failing grade for this course.

    Academic Accommodations

    Disability Services coordinates reasonable accommodations for students with documented


    disabilities. Students in need of academic accommodations because of the impact of a disability
    are invited to e-

    mail the Disabilities Compliance Coordinator at disabilityservices@cedarville.edu or visit


    www.cedarville.edu/disabilities for information and an application. Disability Services is located
    in The Cove (Academic Enrichment Center) on the second floor of the BTS.

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