The Gallipoli Manuscript 1B

This edition presents a unique collection of partimento realizations, exercises in thoroughbass notation probably deriving from the Neapolitan conservatories, from around the 1750s. The manuscript, today preserved in the Biblioteca Communale in the village of Gallipoli, contains forty-six realizations of partimenti by Francesco Durante (1684-1755). This second volume includes sixteen realizations of exercises that Durante composed over the descending bass motions. The realizations that are presented in this second volume, correspond with Durante’s collection Studj per cembalo con partimenti diversi.