A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Partimenti


​PARTIMENTI, 'divisions.' Exercises in florid counterpoint, written generally, but not always, on a figured bass, for the purpose of cultivating the art of accompanying or of playing at sight from a figured bass.

[ J. A. F. M. ]

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