partimento
Sign in to savethumb|right|500px|A simple partimento with figures to teach beginners. (Fenaroli Partimento No. 1, Book 1, Gj1301) thumb|right|500px| A partimento fugue for more advanced students. As students progressed, partimenti became unfigured. (Fenaroli Partimento Fugue 8, Book 5, Gj1418)
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- Concept
- History
- Beginnings
- Golden age
- Partimenti collections in Germany
- Influence on Paris Conservatory
- Revival in the 21st century
- Partimento rules
- Consonances and dissonances
- Consonances
- Dissonances
- Essential foundations of the key
- Cadences
- Simple cadence
- Compound cadence
- Double cadence
- Rule of the octave
- Major mode
- Minor mode
- Suspensions
- The fourth
- The seventh
- The ninth
- Bass suspension: the second
- Bass motions
- Rises by a 3rd and falls by a step
- Falls by a 3rd and rises by a step
- Rises by a 4th and falls by a 3rd
- Falls by a 4th and rises by a step
- Rises by a 4th and falls by a 5th
- Falls by a 5th and rises by a 4th
- Rises by a 5th and falls by a 4th
- Rises by a 6th and falls by a 5th
- Falls by semitone
- Rises by semitone
- Falls with ties
- Diminution
- Imitation
- Partimento fugues
- Partimento and counterpoint
- Notable collections of partimenti
- See also
- Notes and references
- Citations
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|right|500px|A simple partimento with figures to teach beginners. (Fenaroli Partimento No. 1, Book 1, Gj1301) thumb|right|500px| A partimento fugue for more advanced students. As students progressed, partimenti became unfigured. (Fenaroli Partimento Fugue 8, Book 5, Gj1418)
A partimento (from the Italian: partimento, plural partimenti) is a sketch (often a bass line), written out on a single staff, whose main purpose is to be a guide for the improvisation ("realization") of a composition at the keyboard. A partimento differs from a basso continuo accompaniment in that it is a basis for a complete composition. Partimenti were central to the training of European musicians from the late 1600s until the early 1800s. They were developed in the Italian conservatories, especially at the music conservatories of Naples, and later at the Paris Conservatory, which emulated the Neapolitan conservatories.