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Oracle Chamber Music Festival 2020

Improvisation Masterclass

John Mortensen

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Partimenti in Major and Minor, using only RO

Double Cadence

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Partimento for Cadences

Partimento for Modulation

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Illustration of Bass Motion with Partimento for Practicing

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Improv Exercises for Beginning Ensembles

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IMPROVISATION RESOURCES:

http://www.johnmortensen.com

The Pianist’s Guide to Historic Improvisation (pre-order at Oxford University Press or Amazon)

Improv Planet, the online school of historic improvisation

https://patreon.com/ImprovPlanet

Erhardt, Martin. Upon a Ground - Improvisation on Ostinato Basses from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries. Magdeburg: Verlag Franz Biersack, 2013.

Gjerdingen, Robert O. Music in the Galant Style. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Sanguinetti, Giorgio. The Art of Partimento: History, Theory, and Practice. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.