Feb 1, 2024
I talk to Professor Niels Berentsen about the
beginnings of improvised counterpoint, the reconstruction of
incomplete music by Johannes Ciconia, computational analysis of
counterpoint, teaching 15th/16th century canon, improvisation in
the classroom at the Haute école de musique, the long history of
improvisation...
Feb 1, 2024
Today we have a special episode dedicated to Solfeggio, featuring Professors Nicholas Baragwanath, Job IJzerman, Robert O. Gjerdingen, and Peter van Tour. The famed students of the 18th-century Neapolitan conservatories undertook an extensive 3-year course of hexachordal solmisation using guidonian syllables before they...