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Renaissance

Renaissance 2

Cantus Firmus

Renaissance 3

Cantus Figuratus

Renaissance 4

Tones and Modes

Renaissance 5 – Coming Soon

2 Part Counterpoint

Renaissance 6 – Coming Soon

Advanced Counterpoint

Baroque

Baroque 2

The Partimento Method

Baroque 3

Suite and Dances

Baroque 4 – Coming Soon

Baroque 5 – Coming Soon

The Fugue

Baroque 6 – Coming Soon

Rhetoric and Preludes

Renaissance Path

If you don’t read music through the eyes of the Ancient Musician, you’ll miss out on so many details!

Step into the shoes of an ancient musician, delve into their mindset, and learn to read Music with Hexachords!

Learn Solmisation and start to grasp the most refined details concealed within the melodies!

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Ren 1 - Hexachordal Solmization

The Reading Method with Hexachords

Perfect and Imperfect Tones, Mixti and Commixti, Regular and Irregular

Cantus Firmus is the Gregorian Chant as it was conceived and performed in the Renaissance, but it is much more than that.

It is the study of melodies in the 8 Ecclesiastical Tones, and it is the foundation upon which ancient musicians learned to create chants that were coherent and appropriate to the Tone.

Learn Cantus Firmus, and discover everything about Perfect, Imperfect, Authentic, Plagal, Mixed, Commixed, and Irregular Tones!

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Ren 2 - Cantus Firmus

The Sacred Chant of the Catholic Church

In the Renaissance, Transcriptions did not exist!

Ancient musicians read Mensural Notation, also known as Cantus Figuratus or Cantus Mensurabilis, a type of notation that uses the Mensura, the property of certain notes to be Perfect or Imperfect.

To authentically perform Renaissance music, we must know the rules governing this system and also be able to read from the original scores!

Learn how to read Mensural Notation directly from the ancient sources yourself!

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Ren 3 - Cantus Figuratus

The White Mensutal Notation of the Renaissance

The Modes are not 12, and they are not built on scales!

Everything you know about the Renaissance modal system is probably wrong.

Renaissance modality—the starting point of counterpoint—is entirely built on the species of the diapente and diatessaron, on transpositions for the Chorsita voice, high instruments, and low instruments.

Learn the system of the 12 Modes and the 8 + 1 Ecclesiastical Tones in the Renaissance Practice!

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Ren 4 - Tones and Modes

The Modal System of the Renaissance Counterpoint

Baroque Path

If you don’t read music through the eyes of the Ancient Musician, you’ll miss out on so many details!

Step into the shoes of an ancient musician, delve into their mindset, and learn to read Music with Hexachords!

Learn Solmisation and start to grasp the most refined details concealed within the melodies!

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Bar 1 - Hexachordal Solmization

The Reading Method with Hexachords

Functional Harmony doesn’t work.
If you want to compose like a Baroque musician, you must think like a Baroque Musicus.

Instead of abstract rules, you’ll learn through Partimenti—the practical system used by Bach, Handel, and their students.

This level is structured in 12 focused Chapters, each designed to build a specific skill and expand your musical vocabulary step by step.

What you’ll master:
Music Theory, 2-, 3-, and 4-Part Counterpoint, Cadences & Advanced Cadences, Rule of the Octave, Galant Schematas, Fenaroli’s Partimenti Numerati (Figured), Durante’s Partimenti Diminuiti

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Compose Music by Combining Elements​

The Essence of Dance is Rhythm

Even before harmony and counterpoint, in dance, there is rhythm.

In this level, you will learn the characteristic rhythms of various dances and how to compose musical phrases that reflect the unique traits of each one.

You will study, analyze, and then compose a wide range of dances, including:

Allemande, Sarabande, Minuet, Gavotte, Bourrée, French Courante, Italian Corrente, Loure, Passepied, French Gigue, and Italian Giga.

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Bar 3 - Suite and Dances

The Dance Movements of the Baroque Style

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