An impromptu keyboard realization of Exercise 1.2.c from Job IJzerman's "Harmony, Counterpoint, Partimento" – a new book that rehabilitates the old method (partimento) of teaching the fundaments of European classical music (harmony & counterpoint).

The goal of such instruction (a student's technical and idiomatic proficiency) is the ability to extemporize right-hand figurations over a given bass in the vein of such arcane practices as continuo and fugue. Take it from me, this method works: for a mediocre keyboardist such as myself to be able to improvise such a coherent phrase so fluently without premeditation ... that's SOMETHING! 😄

There's plenty more to come on this exciting pedagogical front. Stay tuned...

An impromptu realization of Exercise 1.2.c

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An impromptu realization of Exercise 1.2.c

Graham Jacobson