Between 2017 and 2019, Wessmans Musikförlag will publish a new serie, called Monuments of Partimento Realizations, edited by Peter van Tour. With the help of an international team of scholars, among them Nicoleta Paraschivescu (Basel), Ewald Demeyere (Brussels) and Peter van Tour (Visby/Oslo), we will publish some of the most important collections of partimento realizations.
Partimenti are exercises, mostly notated in F-clef, to which students improvised the upper parts with the help of thoroughbass figures; such exercises thus functioned somewhat similar to lead sheets in jazz music. The realization presented in this series will provide the modern musician with some of the best available examples of how such shorthand notations could be developed by students or professional musicians.
Volume 1a–b: The Gallipoli Manuscript, part 1–2
Edited by Peter van Tour
Volume 2: The Vessella Manuscript
Edited by Nicoleta Paraschivescu
Volume 3: The Stecher Realizations
Edited by Peter van Tour
Volume 4: The Parma Manuscript
Partimento realizations of Fedele Fenaroli (1809)
Edited by Ewald Demeyere
Volume 5: The Catelani Realizations
Edited by Riccardo Castagnetti (in preparation)
Giambattista Martini
Libro per Accompagnare (1737-38)
Link to interview with Peter van Tour about partimenti (in Norwegian)
