A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Partimenti

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From volume 2 of the work.

1976092A Dictionary of Music and Musicians — PartimentiGeorge GroveJ. A. Fuller-Maitland

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. ]