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• 201: Counterpoint Panel: Why "Harmony" Classes Fail, Fux Myths, Bach Traps & Better Methods

  January 5, 2026 · 1 hr 25 min

  Counterpoint is the "huge topic" that crowns the Neapolitan method and the Paris Conservatoire tradition—and yet it's often taught today in ways that leave students confused, discouraged, and musically disconnected. In this Counterpoint…

• 182: Giovanna Barbati (Partimento and Improvisation on the Cello)

  June 3, 2024 · 1 hr 42 min

  Today I speak to cellist and viola da gamba player Giovanna Barbati, whose repertoire extends from early to contemporary music and who has a special interest in improvisation. She appears frequently as a soloist, she plays her own music…

• 144: Sietze de Vries (Classical Improviser, Organist)

  May 17, 2024 · 1 hr 38 min

  Professor Sietze de Vries, famed for his mastery in classical improvisation, joins the show to talk about his education, training, approach to music, music education, and demonstrates classical improvisation in multiple styles, and time…

• 158: Nicholas Baragwanath (Hexachordal Italian Solfeggio)

  May 17, 2024 · 1 hr 9 min

  Professor Nicholas Baragwanath, author of the groundbreaking "Solfeggio Tradition" (published by Oxford University Press), returns to the show to talk about Hexachordal Italian Solfeggio. This was the method of solfege instruction that was…

• 157: Ewald Demeyere (Fedele Fenaroli's Partimenti and Pedagogy)

  April 1, 2024 · 1 hr 59 min

  Professor Ewald Demeyere returns on the show to discuss his critical edition of Fenaroli's partimenti collection and discusses Fenaroli's approach to pedagogy and partimento realization.

• 154: Partimento Panel (Gjerdingen, Sanguinetti, van Tour, Cafiero)

  March 1, 2024 · 1 hr 33 min

  In this episode, I am joined by eminent professors Robert O. Gjerdingen, Giorgio Sanguinetti, Peter van Tour, and Rosa Cafiero, in a special panel session about the subject of partimento. We discuss the history of its modern research, the…

• 174: Niels Berentsen (1300-1500 Polyphony | Improvising Vocal Counterpoint)

  February 1, 2024 · 1 hr 19 min

  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…

• 167: Solfeggio Panel (Baragwanath, Gjerdingen, IJzerman, van Tour)

  February 1, 2024 · 1 hr 23 min

  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…