At mentiParti, you can focus on your own musical creativity while engaging with others in group-based activities. The course builds on two settings: learning through individual practice and inspiration from exchange of ideas from others.There is room for individual exploring, for coaching, and for watching and hearing others learn.

Elements from the Neapolitan teaching tradition include:

• Solfeggi provide insights into solmisation-based singing and teach us basics of melodic invention and ornamentation of the 17th and 18th centuries. We will sing!
• Partimenti open a world of guided improvisation through to composition, from a wide range of fundamental patterns to the scale of larger forms. They bridge also to many Galant schemata (see Gjerdingen, Music in the Galant Style, 2007). Instrumentalists as well as singers can work with them.
• Counterpoint exercises grow from both singing and playing/improvising expertise. Once you start to hear your music inside, writing it down is fun!