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Nikhil Hogan Show

Mar 1, 2024

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 definition of partimento, why partimento died out, the problem with modern harmony...


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...


Jan 1, 2024

I'm delighted to share this interview recorded yesterday with the great Professor Robert O. Gjerdingen, focusing greatly on Music Schema Theory as revealed in his groundbreaking 2007 monograph "Music in the Galant Style". In addition, we discuss Roman Numeral Analysis, Harmonic Function Theory, Hugo Riemann,...


Dec 24, 2023

0:00 Intro

0:36 Start

1:59 St. Pius X's Motu Proprio "Tra Le Sollecitudini"

5:16 How did the Council of Trent affect Gregorian chant?

5:54 What do you think of Organum and composers like Léonin and Pérotin?

6:45 Johann Joseph Fux

14:53 Knud Jeppesen

26:54 Did Palestrina improvise or play the organ?

28:39 Bach played...