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Teaching double bass through lost traditions of the 18th century

Tina Battaglia (Dissertant), Samuel Suggs (Thesis advisor), Heather Miller-Lardin (Thesis advisor), James Madison University (Degree granting institution), James Madison University School of Music
Through learning how to improvise entire compositions from unfigured bass using stock classical schemata, this paper seeks to bring awareness to the technical and musical benefits of translating 18th century compositional keyboard etudes called partimenti into double bass etudes

Thesis, Dissertation, English, 2024
James Madison University, [Harrisonburg, Virginia], 2024