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Music interview podcast. Interested in Partimento, Music Schema Theory, Counterpoint, Hexachordal Solfeggio, Basso Continuo, Critiques of Modern Music Education, Gregorian Chant, Catholic Sacred Music, Renaissance Polyphony, Filmscoring, and more!

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Music interview podcast. Interested in Partimento, Music Schema Theory, Counterpoint, Hexachordal Solfeggio, Basso Continuo, Critiques of Modern Music Education, Gregorian Chant, Catholic Sacred Music, Renaissance Polyphony, Filmscoring, and more!

    154: Partimento Panel (Gjerdingen, Sanguinetti, van Tour, Cafiero)

    154: Partimento Panel (Gjerdingen, Sanguinetti, van Tour, Cafiero)

    In this episode, I am joined by eminent professors Robert O. Gjerdingen, Giorgio Sanguinetti, Peter van Tour, and Rosa Cafiero, in a special panel session about the subject of partimento. We discuss the history of its modern research, the definition of partimento, why partimento died out, the problem with modern harmony instruction in conservatories today, the practical applicability of partimento in modern times, the future of partimento, and more.

    • 1 hr 32 min
    174: Niels Berentsen (1300-1500 Polyphony | Improvising Vocal Counterpoint)

    174: Niels Berentsen (1300-1500 Polyphony | Improvising Vocal Counterpoint)

    I talk to Professor Niels Berentsen about the beginnings of improvised counterpoint, the reconstruction of incomplete music by Johannes Ciconia, computational analysis of counterpoint, teaching 15th/16th century canon, improvisation in the classroom at the Haute école de musique, the long history of improvisation models, and more.
     

    Niels has taught the theory and performance of medieval and Renaissance music at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague since 2011. He received his PhD from Leiden University in 2016. Since 2018 he is professor of improvised counterpoint at the Haute École de Musique de Genève (Switzerland). As a researcher, Niels has investigated techniques of polyphonic improvisation in the 1300-1500 period.

    • 1 hr 19 min
    167: Solfeggio Panel (Baragwanath, Gjerdingen, IJzerman, van Tour)

    167: Solfeggio Panel (Baragwanath, Gjerdingen, IJzerman, van Tour)

    Today we have a special episode dedicated to Solfeggio, featuring Professors Nicholas Baragwanath, Job IJzerman, Robert O. Gjerdingen, and Peter van Tour. The famed students of the 18th-century Neapolitan conservatories undertook an extensive 3-year course of hexachordal solmisation using guidonian syllables before they were allowed to touch an instrument. This excellent training preceded partimento and written counterpoint studies. We discuss all aspects of this pedagogy, whether it is worth learning today, its benefits, and answer numerous audience questions.

    • 1 hr 23 min
    177: Robert O. Gjerdingen (Music Schema Theory)

    177: Robert O. Gjerdingen (Music Schema Theory)

    I'm delighted to share this interview recorded yesterday with the great Professor Robert O. Gjerdingen, focusing greatly on Music Schema Theory as revealed in his groundbreaking 2007 monograph "Music in the Galant Style". In addition, we discuss Roman Numeral Analysis, Harmonic Function Theory, Hugo Riemann, Tonality, Dahlhaus, and Schenker, and he answers numerous audience questions, enjoy!

    • 2 hrs 6 min
    156: Peter Schubert (Palestrina, Fux, Counterpoint)

    156: Peter Schubert (Palestrina, Fux, Counterpoint)

    0:00 Intro
    0:36 Start
    1:59 St. Pius X's Motu Proprio "Tra Le Sollecitudini"
    5:16 How did the Council of Trent affect Gregorian chant?
    5:54 What do you think of Organum and composers like Léonin and Pérotin?
    6:45 Johann Joseph Fux
    14:53 Knud Jeppesen
    26:54 Did Palestrina improvise or play the organ?
    28:39 Bach played on the accordion
    30:36 The Lute
    31:44 Exultate iusti by Viadana, sung by the Sistine Chapel in 1925
    36:34 Historically Informed Performance Practice
    39:33 Has improvised counterpoint pedagogy become more prevalent in today's university music curriculums?
    41:29 Professor Schubert's YouTube Channel/s
    43:07 19th century counterpoint
    47:03 Nadia Boulanger
    50:07 Counterpoint for modern composition
    52:59 Wrapping Up
    53:20 Outro

    • 56 min
    141: Job IJzerman (Harmony, Counterpoint, Partimento)

    141: Job IJzerman (Harmony, Counterpoint, Partimento)

    0:00 Intro
    0:36 Start
    1:29 Refinements in approach to teaching with "Harmony, Counterpoint, Partimento" since last interview
    6:21 Understanding the patterns in the book as "pure sounds"
    9:59 Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata K. 82
    10:25 Thinking of cadences as schema and things that are polyphonic rather than modern terminology like PAC or IAC
    16:58 Joseph Haydn: "Surprise" Symphony No. 94
    18:41 Thinking of 3-part harmony as complete instead of 4-part harmony missing a voice?
    26:52 Antonio Vivaldi: La Primavera
    39:32 Where do you typically take your musical examples from in the book?
    41:08 Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 43 ("Mercury"), 4th mvt
    47:09 How does someone learn the different ways to accompany a melody line?
    50:16 Francesco Durante partimento
    52:28 Francesco Durante partimento realized as a duo live example
    55:35 Arcangelo Corelli: tempo di gavotta
    56:41 Arcangelo Corelli: tempo di gavotta, live example
    1:01:16 In the early 18th-century, nobody spoke of "half cadences", which was a term that didn't exist
    1:03:39 Did they think in terms of modes in the early 18th-century for composition?
    1:04:43 The Discant Cadence
    1:06:43 Job plays Bach BWV928 excerpt live
    1:10:47 On the fluidity of voices dropping in and out versus strictly having 4-voices SATB "chorale-style"
    1:13:13 Richard Wagner: Tristan Vorspiel
    1:18:58 Richard Wagner was a musical great-grandchild of Padre Martini
    1:24:13 Robert Schumann
    1:25:29 Johannes Brahms
     1:26:47 Tchaikovsky
    1:29:52 How do new conservatory students react to your method?
    1:32:29 How have other colleagues and professors reacted to your method?
    1:34:20 Some conservatories have taken HCP as a compulsory book for 1st and 2nd year students
    1:36:55 EXCLUSIVE: New Renaissance Counterpoint Book announced!
    1:39:07 Wrapping Up
    1:39:35 Outro

    • 1 hr 42 min

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