This volume reflects a multidisciplinary approach, with the accent on the interplay between music performance and music theory.
Gjerdingen addresses the relation between the realization of partimenti and contrapuntal thinking, illustrated by examples of.
Both Robert Gjerdingen and Giorgio Sanguinetti focus on the Neapolitan tradition of partimento.
Thomas Christensen, in his contribution, shows how the development of tonal harmonic Theory went hand in hand with the Practice of thoroughbass.
This volume reflects a multidisciplinary approach, with the accent on the interplay between music performance and music theory