COMING SOON! Forever-Free Workshop: Introduction to Partimenti

Many musicians who discover partimenti feel the same thing: curiosity… followed by confusion.

They browse historical collections, explore Fenaroli, study the Rule of the Octave — and quickly realize something doesn’t quite connect. The reason is simple: partimenti was an oral tradition. The earliest stages of learning were never fully written down.

What survives often starts in the middle.

In this post, I explore why partimenti can feel so countercultural today — despite forming the foundation of the classical tradition — and introduce a new, forever-free workshop designed to rebuild the missing first steps, the way they may have been learned in Naples: from the chalkboard, through sound first.