What if you could take moments from classical music you love and turn them into material for your own creativity? In Six Classical Moments You Love, I’ve taken six listener-suggested passages and reduced them to basslines you can explore, improvise on, and develop. Inspired by the tradition of partimenti—and by collections like those of Padre Martini—this free resource invites you to engage directly with the harmonic foundations of great music.

Partimenti can refer to several closely related things: a body of unfinished musical repertoire, a creative musical practice, a powerful teaching method, and a way of understanding harmony and musical form from the inside out. This article explores how these ideas connect and why partimenti still matters for musicians today.