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Chapter 3: A Case for Partimento Pt. 1 – Music Theory

Post author By Connor Gaydon
Post date November 24, 2020
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Reform needs to occur in musical theory and improvisation pedagogies. I posit that Partimento can be used as a method in which to holistically integrate compartmentalised aspects of music education. Partimento can act as a scaffold to train improvisation (Callahan, 2017, p. 196). Improvisation is an admirable goal in and of itself and produces valuable […]

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Analysis: Haydn Andante and Variations in F minor, Hob XVII:6

Post author By Connor Gaydon
Post date June 21, 2018
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Written in 1793 in Vienna “between his two stays in London” (Ax, 2012), the ‘Andante with variations in F minor’ “underwent several revisions” (Sisman, 1993, p. 193). It was an “alternating strophic-variation set in six parts” intended to be a movement of a sonata (Sisman, 1993, p. 193). This was later changed to a reprise […]