Christensen (music and the humanities, U. of Chicago) et al. present four essays based on lectures they gave at the Fourth International Orpheus Academy for Music Theory in 2006 on "Music
Theory: Thoroughbass in Practice, Theory, and Improvisation." Essays address the interaction between music theory, music history, performance practice, aesthetics, and related sciences,
particularly how the development of tonal harmonic theory accompanied the practice of thoroughbass; the Neapolitan tradition of partimento; the relation between the realization of partimenti
and contrapuntal thinking. They also discuss the history of the partimento-fugue from the early eighteenth to the late nineteenth century, and the use of partimenti in educational practice and
improvisational training. No index is provided. Distributed in the US by Cornell University Press. Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
