Provides an alternative to currently used harmony textbooks
Explores a contrapuntal perspective
Focuses on perception, experience and recognition
A new method of music theory education for undergraduate music students,
Harmony, Counterpoint, Partimento is grounded in schema theory and
partimento, and takes an integrated, hands-on approach to the teaching of
harmony and counterpoint in today's classrooms and studios. A textbook in
three parts, the package includes:
the hardcopy text, providing essential stylistic and technical
information and repertoire discussion,
an online workbook with a full range of exercises, including partimenti
by Fenaroli, Sala, and others, along with arrangements of eighteenth- and
nineteenth-century compositions,
an online instructor's manual providing additional information and
realizations of all exercises.
Linking theoretical knowledge with aural perception and aesthetic experience,
the exercises encompass various activities, such as singing, playing,
improvising, and notation, which challenge and develop the student's
harmonic, melodic, and rhythmic imagination. Covering the common-practice
period (Corelli to Brahms), Harmony, Counterpoint, Partimento is a core
component of practice-oriented training of musicianship skills, in
conjunction with solfeggio, analysis, and modal or tonal counterpoint.
