Partimento
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A partimento is a sketch, written out on a single staff, whose main purpose is to be a guide for the improvisation of a composition at the keyboard. A partimento differs from a basso continuo accompan
A simple partimento with figures to teach beginners. (Fenaroli Partimento No. 1, Book 1, Gj1301)
A partimento fugue for more advanced students. As students progressed, partimenti became unfigured. (Fenaroli Partimento Fugue 8, Book 5, Gj1418)
Fedele Fenaroli's version of the rule of the octave became the most prominent.
Counterpoint
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In music theory, counterpoint is the relationship of two or more simultaneous musical lines that are harmonically dependent on each other, yet independent in rhythm and melodic contour. The term origi
Gradus ad Parnassum (1725) by Johann Joseph Fux defines the modern system of teaching counterpoint
Example of a descending double neighbor figure against a cantus firmus