Ep5. Basic Improvisation Structures in Baroque Style

Lesson Applications, Inquiries, Comments for Nicola: [email protected]; [email protected] Some basic structures for improvising without partimenti or a figured bass to guide you. The "TSCr" formalism is introduced as a way to analyze the structure of Italian and German Baroque music, and as a way to create your own sensible structures at the keyboard. We comb through the opening of a Bach English Suite this way, and then four separate improvisations are given as exemplars with subtitles describing the structure. 00:00 - Introduction 02:13 - Beginning, middle, end * 4:42 - Why it's uncommon to end the middle section in the dominant key 06:18 - Two reminders (tempo; brevity) 08:34 - TSCR formalism: what? what for? 10:54 - T: Themes 14:04 - S: Sequences 15:10 - C: Cadences 16:53 - R: Transitions 18:10 - Example: Prelude from English Suite 4 in F major 21:53 - Common constructions from TSCR pieces * 24:29 - Beginnings: common elaborations of TSC 26:09 - Demo 1 in C major: TTSC SC r TTSC SSC S SC 27:28 - Demo 2 in G minor TTSC SC TTSC SSC TTC 28:40 - Demo 3 in F major TTrS TC r TTSC TrC TTC 30:02 - Demo 4 in D minor TTSC TC r SC TTC r TSC 31:33 - Outro