Improvisation Resources

MY STUFF

Improv Planet is the online school of historic improvisation.  With hundreds of members from around the world, it is a supportive community for improv learners at professional and amateur levels. Improv Planet features the world’s largest library of historic keyboard improvisation tutorial videos.

Improvising Fugue: A Method for Keyboard Artists (Oxford University Press, 2023).

The Pianist’s Guide to Historic Improvisation (Oxford University Press, 2020)


WEBSITES

Monuments of Partimenti is a collection of indispensable historical sources.


BOOKS

Gjerdingen, Robert O. 2019. Music in the Galant Style. Oxford University Press.

Gjerdingen, Robert O. 2020. Child Composers in the Old Conservatories: How Orphans Became Elite Musicians. Oxford University Press.

Gooley, Dana. 2018. Fantasies of Improvisation: Free Playing in Nineteenth-Century Music. Oxford University Press.

Hamilton, Kenneth. 2007. After the Golden Age: Romantic Pianism and Modern Performance. Oxford University Press.

Ijzerman, Job. 2019. Harmony, Counterpoint, Partimento: a New Method Inspired by Old Masters. Oxford University Press.

Sanguinetti, Giorgio. 2012. The Art of Partimento: History, Theory, and Practice. Oxford University Press.

Tour, Peter van. 2015. Counterpoint and Partimento: Methods of Teaching Composition in Late Eighteenth-Century Naples. Uppsala Universitet.