163: Richardus Cochlearius (Hexachordal Solmisation, Partimento) 

0:00 Intro 0:36 Start 14:59 Giulio Cesare "Marinelli's Via retta della voce corale" (1671) 27:17 The Power of Fa and Mi 29:17 Banchieri's Ba Bi 35:37 Josquin's Ave Maris Stella 41:05 Zipoli's Toccata 48:37 Chromaticism 55:31 Solmisation Super Course (Fa Mi & Mi Fa Est Tota Music) 1:06:44 Chromatic Partimento (Fenaroli Book IV No. 27 GJ 1357) 1:12:15 Toccata Cromaticha by Frescobaldi 1:18:29 Wrapping Up 1:25:30 Outro

Richardus is not just an awesome content creator, but a teacher too! His knowledge on partimento and early music are outstanding! 👏👏

What a great show, Nikhil, thank you! Richardus is a very funny guy, he has great knowledge, so it is always a pleasure to listen to him talk about solfeggio.

I agree. His videos on partimento and early music are far and away the best on youtube.

I am so happy to see the partimento movement that has been developing in this century, The next revolution is the pre-cultural universal foundations that are necessary for creating musical systems. How to measure the monochord depends on an adequate familiarity with the first two components of what the Greeks dubbed mathematikos. This meant the learning, in other words, the curriculum. The prior steps before music was numbers and geometry. Without this foundation, the partimento tradition begins in some foggy past. I hope this video will lead people to reviving ancient Greek thought and learn it in such a way that it opens many paths to follow that are not being considered at the present

Awesome show, very informative and interesting

Great job, guys!!! We need the glove!!!

Very good guest! Bravo

There are two other studies that I have devoted my life to, I have an unpublished manuscript and am transforming the concepts into PowerPoint presentations. The two studies are mastery of the monochord and the study of Greek mathematics. Just as partimento challenges the 20th and 19th educational programs of music. I have developed a system of numbers, geometry, music theory, and measurement that challenges the dominance of algebra and the decimal number system and related atheir pproaches to measurement. The whole system is not only more intuitive, but it also creates a single language to be used in cross-disciplinary discussions.

I think there are partimento sources in Marella Mexico. I think I learned this tidbit in one of your shows.

This section is pure gold: 48:37 Chromaticism

I also find it so sad that hardly anybody teaches this anymore. I always knew there was some method to making Baroque music but it is so hard to find anything about it. Most of my teachers had zero clue, and just said: "well they were geniuses, that is how they did it". But of course, that is just nonsense, even though those composers were brilliant, they weren't using magic, they weren't all inventing the same systems from scratch.

Three mnemonic devices came into use around the same time - the solfeggio system, the Guidian hand,. and the musical staff. The musical staff borrowed the mathematical tool called the counting board. The syllables of ut, re, mi, etc. were borrowed from a hymn. To use mnemonic devices implies that the one using it knows precisely what it refers to. There used to be a video about the ragas, which including segments of Indian teachers working with students. They worked on it entirely by students repeating what the teachers were singing. No music theory was introduced into the practice at that point. In the West, the same musical mnemonic devices have survived a thousand years. However, there have been consistent crises where changes of meaning were implied in practice. If these crises are not studied in terms of the exacted tunings involved, nonsense persists.

"Historical improvisation" and "historical composition" are not quite correct. Should be "improvisation" and "composition"

poor thing, why is he standing

Two early-music legends in one video!

16:40 invented by…?