AOC 011: Partimenti and the Secrets of the Greatest Composers – An Interview with Robert Gjerdingen

Episode 11 of the Art of Composing Podcast. We interview Robert Gjerdingen, author of the book "Music in the Galant Style". We talk about Partimenti, the tool used to train the greatest composers from Mozart to Debussy and Stravinsky, as well as his new research into how music fits really well into constructionist linguistic theory.

What is in this episode:

* What Partimenti are and why you should care.
* How composers like Mozart would have actually learned to composed.
* How composition is very similar to speaking a language.

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Resources and Links Mentioned in this Episode:

Joint Improvisation by Alma Deutscher and Tobias Cramm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nubC3dktQ24

Four Improvisations for Piano by Arensky, Rachmaninov, Glazunov & Taneyev
https://youtu.be/PlFPOWuwBHI?t=2s

Robert Gjerdingen's Book
Music in the Galant Style
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Schema Theory as a Construction Grammar
http://www.mtosmt.org/issues/mto.15.21.2/mto.15.21.2.gjerdingen_bourne.html

Robert Gjerdingen’s Website
http://faculty-web.at.northwestern.edu/music/gjerdingen/index.htm

Monuments of Partimenti
http://faculty-web.at.northwestern.edu/music/gjerdingen/partimenti/index.htm

Robert Gjerdingen’s Free Course On Playing Partimenti
https://sites.google.com/site/partimenti/courses

1000 Harmonic Exercises by Anton Arensky
https://www.scribd.com/doc/305313092/1000-Problems-for-the-Practical-Study-of-Harmony-by-Anton-Arensky