Nikhil Hogan Show
123 episodes - English - Latest episode: 28 days ago - ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsMusic interview podcast. Interested in Partimento, Music Schema Theory, Counterpoint, Hexachordal Solfeggio, Basso Continuo, Critiques of Modern Music Education, Gregorian Chant, Catholic Sacred Music, Renaissance Polyphony, Filmscoring, and more!
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157: Ewald Demeyere (Fedele Fenaroli's Partimenti and Pedagogy)
April 01, 2024 02:24 - 1 hour - 109 MBProfessor Ewald Demeyere returns on the show to discuss his critical edition of Fenaroli's partimenti collection and discusses Fenaroli's approach to pedagogy and partimento realization.
154: Partimento Panel (Gjerdingen, Sanguinetti, van Tour, Cafiero)
March 01, 2024 11:12 - 1 hour - 85.2 MBIn this episode, I am joined by eminent professors Robert O. Gjerdingen, Giorgio Sanguinetti, Peter van Tour, and Rosa Cafiero, in a special panel session about the subject of partimento. We discuss the history of its modern research, the definition of partimento, why partimento died out, the problem with modern harmony instruction in conservatories today, the practical applicability of partimento in modern times, the future of partimento, and more.
174: Niels Berentsen (1300-1500 Polyphony | Improvising Vocal Counterpoint)
February 01, 2024 01:56 - 1 hour - 72.7 MBI talk to Professor Niels Berentsen about the beginnings of improvised counterpoint, the reconstruction of incomplete music by Johannes Ciconia, computational analysis of counterpoint, teaching 15th/16th century canon, improvisation in the classroom at the Haute école de musique, the long history of improvisation models, and more. Niels has taught the theory and performance of medieval and Renaissance music at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague since 2011. He received his PhD from L...
167: Solfeggio Panel (Baragwanath, Gjerdingen, IJzerman, van Tour)
February 01, 2024 01:38 - 1 hour - 76.5 MBToday we have a special episode dedicated to Solfeggio, featuring Professors Nicholas Baragwanath, Job IJzerman, Robert O. Gjerdingen, and Peter van Tour. The famed students of the 18th-century Neapolitan conservatories undertook an extensive 3-year course of hexachordal solmisation using guidonian syllables before they were allowed to touch an instrument. This excellent training preceded partimento and written counterpoint studies. We discuss all aspects of this pedagogy, whether it is wort...
177: Robert O. Gjerdingen (Music Schema Theory)
January 01, 2024 00:22 - 2 hours - 116 MBI'm delighted to share this interview recorded yesterday with the great Professor Robert O. Gjerdingen, focusing greatly on Music Schema Theory as revealed in his groundbreaking 2007 monograph "Music in the Galant Style". In addition, we discuss Roman Numeral Analysis, Harmonic Function Theory, Hugo Riemann, Tonality, Dahlhaus, and Schenker, and he answers numerous audience questions, enjoy!
156: Peter Schubert (Palestrina, Fux, Counterpoint)
December 24, 2023 00:38 - 56 minutes - 51.8 MB0:00 Intro 0:36 Start 1:59 St. Pius X's Motu Proprio "Tra Le Sollecitudini" 5:16 How did the Council of Trent affect Gregorian chant? 5:54 What do you think of Organum and composers like Léonin and Pérotin? 6:45 Johann Joseph Fux 14:53 Knud Jeppesen 26:54 Did Palestrina improvise or play the organ? 28:39 Bach played on the accordion 30:36 The Lute 31:44 Exultate iusti by Viadana, sung by the Sistine Chapel in 1925 36:34 Historically Informed Performance Practice 39:33...
141: Job IJzerman (Harmony, Counterpoint, Partimento)
December 21, 2023 14:30 - 1 hour - 94.1 MB0:00 Intro 0:36 Start 1:29 Refinements in approach to teaching with "Harmony, Counterpoint, Partimento" since last interview 6:21 Understanding the patterns in the book as "pure sounds" 9:59 Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata K. 82 10:25 Thinking of cadences as schema and things that are polyphonic rather than modern terminology like PAC or IAC 16:58 Joseph Haydn: "Surprise" Symphony No. 94 18:41 Thinking of 3-part harmony as complete instead of 4-part harmony missing a voice? 26:52 ...
140: Wim Winters (Whole Beat Metronome Principle)
August 01, 2023 00:57 - 1 hour - 101 MB0:00 Intro 0:36 Start 1:26 When did you start your YouTube channel, and when did you shift from recording performances to research into Whole Beat? 6:22 Which composers used the clavichord? 9:01 Did playing the Clavichord change the way you played Organ? 11:06 What is the Clavichord's touch like? 12:55 Piano vs Clavichord 18:21 What if we had to reconstruct jazz without having access to any sound recordings but rely only on written transcriptions 30:21 Weren't there musical m...
139: Peter Seivewright
July 05, 2023 13:13 - 2 hours - 121 MBPETER SEIVEWRIGHT has received a Special Judges’ Citation in The American Prize Ernst Bacon Award for the Performance of American Music competition, in the professional solo artist division. Peter Seivewright, honored for “Championing American Piano Music,” was selected from applications reviewed recently from all across the United States and the United Kingdom, and the citation awarded for his Divine Art album ‘American Piano Sonatas‘. Peter Seivewright has performed extensively as a recita...
138: Nicholas Baragwanath
June 20, 2022 04:13 - 1 hour - 84.1 MB0:00 Start 1:34 How has the book, "The Solfeggio Tradition", been received? 6:43 Italian solfeggio explained in 4 minutes 11:41 Should children delay singing solfeggio until their voice has broken? 14:15 Did 18th-century plainsong sound more like galant music rather than medieval music? 16:10 What about Palestrina? 19:35 An example of a lesson in Italian solfeggio 22:33 How do you learn to accompany a melody line by sight with the correct harmony? 28:00 How do you follow the ru...
137 - Derek Remes
April 05, 2022 02:29 - 1 hour - 81.7 MB0:00 Intro 0:36 Start 1:58 What made you want to analyze Bach's 48 preludes? 4:26 Every prelude in the book has been transposed to C or Am 6:22 Is there one perfect analysis of Bach's compositions? 8:30 "The Walled Park of Closely Related Keys" 12:11 Would Bach go from C major directly to E minor? 12:42 Bach's use of closely related keys in the preludes 14:35 Looking at an example from the book 17:23 Talking about the nature of modulations in the 18th-century 22:02 Is Bach ...
137: Derek Remes
April 05, 2022 02:29 - 1 hour - 81.7 MB0:00 Intro 0:36 Start 1:58 What made you want to analyze Bach's 48 preludes? 4:26 Every prelude in the book has been transposed to C or Am 6:22 Is there one perfect analysis of Bach's compositions? 8:30 "The Walled Park of Closely Related Keys" 12:11 Would Bach go from C major directly to E minor? 12:42 Bach's use of closely related keys in the preludes 14:35 Looking at an example from the book 17:23 Talking about the nature of modulations in the 18th-century 22:02 Is Bach ...
136: Peter Schubert
December 14, 2021 17:03 - 1 hour - 77 MBProfessor Peter Schubert from McGill University returns to the show to discuss the republication of a new edition of his book, "Baroque Counterpoint."
135: Eric Boaro
September 30, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 66.9 MBMy guest today is Eric Boaro. He is the author of a very interesting article in Eighteenth-Century Music, called Evidence of the Practical Application of Solfeggio Patterns in the Manuscript for the 1707 Neapolitan Performance of La Fede Tradita E Vendicata by Gasparini and Vignola.
134: Robert Gjerdingen and Giorgio Sanguinetti
September 24, 2021 15:53 - 1 hour - 90.9 MBI’m very excited to welcome two very special guests to the program, Professor Robert Gjerdingen and Professor Giorgio Sanguinetti. Professor Gjerdingen is the author of Music in the Galant Style and Child Composers, while Professor Sanguinetti is the author of The Art of Partimento”. They join me today for a group table discussion on partimento, music education, music history, and much more.
133: Patrick Ayrton
September 09, 2021 13:38 - 1 hour - 106 MBMy guest today is conductor, harpsichordist, and organist, Professor Patrick Ayrton. He currently teaches thoroughbass, chamber music, and improvisation at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague.
132: Jonathan Salamon
August 30, 2021 15:23 - 1 hour - 86.8 MBHarpsichordist and Composer, Jonathan Salamon, joins the show to discuss his article on the Leo Schema.
131: Johannes Menke
August 30, 2021 14:24 - 1 hour - 82.5 MBProfessor Johannes Menke joins the podcast to discuss the French Baroque Style, Satzmodelle in 17th-century French music, and more.
130: Rossano Sportiello
July 29, 2021 15:42 - 1 hour - 73.3 MBI’m extremely thrilled to introduce my guest today, Jazz pianist, educator, composer and arranger, Rossano Sportiello! He is one of the world's leading jazz piano players on the scene today, specializing in styles from Harlem Stride Piano to Bebop to Contemporary Jazz. Jazz piano legend Barry Harris said of Rossano, “Rossano is the most fabulous piano player I ever heard in my life; indeed, a master of his craft. Hear him once and you’ll know what I mean”. 0:00 Start 0:53 Background 5:...
129: Nicole DiPaolo
June 11, 2021 12:24 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBI’m very happy to introduce my guest today, Pianist, Composer, Teacher, and Music Scholar, Nicole DiPaolo! She is an online Adjunct Lecturer in Music at Indiana University, a faculty member at a Cleveland-area multi-teacher music studio, the Principal Theory Teacher at Liberty Park Music, an online-only video subscription-based music school, and a sought-after online instructor of piano, music theory, and composition.
128: Adem Merter Birson
May 29, 2021 16:29 - 1 hour - 79.1 MBMy guest today is Musicologist and Music Theorist, Professor Adem Merter Birson! He is an adjunct assistant professor of music at Hofstra University. His primary research deals with the relationship between chromaticism and form in the string quartets of Joseph Haydn. We will talk about Haydn, partimento, sonata form and even get a little into some classical Turkish music.
127: Alex de Grassi
May 19, 2021 13:58 - 55 minutes - 76.9 MBI’m extremely thrilled to introduce my guest today, Grammy-nominated master fingerstyle guitarist Alex de Grassi. He has recorded 19 albums and in 1998, he was nominated for a Grammy for his album “The Water Garden”. The Wall Street Journal has called his playing “flawless” and Billboard hails his “intricate finger-picking technique with an uncanny gift for melodic invention.” His most recent album is 2020’s The Bridge, with Tropo Records. The Bridge is Alex’s first solo guitar recording in ...
126: Robert Gjerdingen
May 12, 2021 16:33 - 1 hour - 81.1 MBI have the huge honor to welcome back to the program, the esteemed Professor Robert Gjerdingen, he is the author of the groundbreaking 2007 “Music in the Galant Style” which won the Wallace Berry award from the Society of Music Theory in 2009. He followed up that book with the excellent 2020 book “Child Composers in the Old Conservatories” and he frequently updates the great website partimenti.org which if you are interested in partimento, need to have that website bookmarked because it has ...
125: Riccardo Castagnetti
April 30, 2021 15:58 - 1 hour - 58 MBI’m so happy to introduce my guest today, Musicologist and musician, Riccardo Castagnetti. We are going to be talking about his research in 18th-century music education pedagogy, focusing on the methods of Andrea Basili.
124: Massimiliano Guido
April 29, 2021 17:16 - 1 hour - 83.9 MBI’m delighted to introduce my guest today, Professor Massimiliano Guido, he is an expert in the fields of historical performance practice and improvisation. He is the editor of the book "Studies in Historical Improvisation: From Cantare Super Librum to Partimento" and he is going to talk to me today about a wide range of topics including counterpoint, partimento, music theory, music history, and much more! 0:43 What is your background? 2:46 Did you improvise at the beginning? 6:06 Did yo...
123: Terry Gibbs
April 23, 2021 03:36 - 1 hour - 139 MBIt’s a real thrill to introduce my guest today, the great jazz master of the vibraphone, Terry Gibbs! At 96 years old, Terry has worked with all the greats like Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Woody Herman, Buddy Rich.. just too many to mention! We discuss his excellent autobiography "Good Vibes", deep dive into Bebop and talk about a wide range of fascinating topics over his amazing career.
122: Nicola Pignatiello
March 29, 2021 15:49 - 1 hour - 82.8 MBI’m very thrilled to speak to my guest today, guitarist, Nicola Pignatiello. He teaches at the Liceo Giordano Bruno in Rome and also at CESMI. This is the episode that all my guitarist audience members have been waiting for, and we will be diving deep into the topic of partimento on the guitar. He has recorded some really beautiful partimento realizations on the guitar that have received very positive responses from the partimento community and we will talk further about realizing partimenti...
121: Jon Raney
March 23, 2021 01:21 - 1 hour - 108 MBMy guest today is jazz pianist, Jon Raney, he is the son of the jazz guitar great Jimmy Raney, and brother to Doug Raney. I am very excited to talk about his father's approach to jazz improvisation, opinions on music, music education pedagogy, and much more!
120: Davey Yarborough
March 19, 2021 02:53 - 1 hour - 85.9 MBDavey Yarborough is a native of The District of Columbia who has been performing, and teaching for over 30 years. He is a flautist and saxophonist as well as a distinguished composer, arranger, bandleader, and teacher. He studied saxophone with the great Sonny Stitt for 2 years, and is the co-founder and Artistic director of the Washington Jazz Arts Institute. 0:49 How did you meet Sonny Stitt? 2:05 Why did Sonny ask those intimidating questions? 2:58 How old were you when you met ...
119: Noam Sivan
March 08, 2021 04:21 - 1 hour - 134 MBMy guest today is Pianist, Improviser, and Composer, Professor Noam Sivan! He is Professor of Piano Improvisation at the HMDK Stuttgart, and we will talk about his remarkable journey, his method to his improvisational craft, his new exciting Master’s degree programme in classical piano improvisation that he has created, and much more! 0:35 What’s your musical background? 1:21 Did you naturally improvise as a child? 1:56 Mother’s influence on creativity 3:25 Tell me about your formal mus...
118: Gaetano Stella
March 01, 2021 04:51 - 1 hour - 89.1 MBMy guest today is Music Scholar and Pianist, Professor Gaetano Stella! An expert on the subject of partimento, particularly partimento in the 19th century. We talk about the partimento tradition in the 19th century and his methods for teaching partimento in the classroom today.
117: Matteo Messori
February 22, 2021 04:05 - 1 hour - 141 MBWhat an honor to speak with my guest today, Harpsichordist, Organist, Keyboardist, Conductor, Composer and Improviser, Matteo Messori! He is the founder of the Cappella Augustana Ensemble and His latest recording is the complete harpsichord and organ works by Johann Kaspar Kerll, a new 3CD Box. We discuss the Bologna tradition, basso continuo, partimento, Padre Martini and Mattei, counterpoint, his partimento teaching method and much more!
116: Nicola Canzano
February 17, 2021 02:29 - 1 hour - 103 MBI’m so pleased to introduce my guest today, composer, improviser, harpsichordist, and organist Nicola Canzano! He is the composer of his “First Book of Partimenti: Preludes, Fugues, Rondeaus, and Puzzles, Twenty Four in total through all key signatures”. He is also the founder of the upcoming NEw York and Montreal based group Nuova Practica, which focuses on composing and improvising in baroque and early adjacent music.
115: Bill Conti
January 31, 2021 16:39 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MBI am very thrilled to speak with my guest today, Academy and Emmy Award winning Film Composer and Conductor, Bill Conti! He is best known for his film scores including Rocky, The Karate Kid, For Your Eyes Only, Dynasty and the Right Stuff which earned him an Academy Award for Best Original Score. He was music director at the Academy Awards a record nineteen times. It was announced in June 2020 that Conti had donated his original scores to Louisiana State University.
115: Job IJzerman
January 25, 2021 06:23 - 1 hour - 114 MBMy guest today is Professor Job IJzerman! He teaches at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. He is known for his popular book, “Harmony, Counterpoint, Partimento” Published by Oxford University Press in 2018. 0:38 Background 1:50 Did you improvise or compose growing up? 2:12 Did you have any experience with thoroughbass or basso continuo? 2:36 Two anecdotes that highlighted the need for harmony pedagogy reform at the conservatory for IJzerman 7:07 Being introduced to Robert Gjerdingen’s w...
113: Thomas Christensen
January 18, 2021 01:31 - 1 hour - 100 MBI am so honored to be speaking to a great guest today, Professor Thomas Christensen. Professor Christensen is the Avalon Foundation Professor of Music and Humanities at the University of Chicago. His scholarly research focuses on the history of music theory and his most recent book is “Tonality in the Age of François-Joseph Fetis” published by the University of Chicago Press in 2019. 0:39 What’s your background? 1:41 What was the state of research in the history of music theory when you b...
112: Giorgio Sanguinetti
December 31, 2020 02:49 - 1 hour - 113 MBIt’s a huge honor to have the great Professor Giorgio Sanguinetti return to the program for his 2nd appearance. He is the author of the award-winning book “The Art of Partimento” which was published in 2012 which won the Wallace Berry Award from the Society of Music Theory and today we will talk his new book “Le Sonate per pianoforte di Beethoven. Genere, forma, espressione” published by Libreria Musicale Italiana. 0:51 Why did you pick the subject of the piano sonatas of Beethoven for thi...
111: L. Poundie Burstein
December 18, 2020 11:21 - 1 hour - 90.1 MBI am extremely thrilled to introduce my guest today, Professor of Music L. Poundie Burstein. He is a Professor at Hunter College College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and he is here today to talk to me about his excellent new book which has been getting rave reviews, “Journeys Through Galant Expositions”. 0:40 Background 6:38 Why was Form not a big area of interest in the 1st half of the 18 century? 7:50 When did the shift happen towards an interest in Form i...
110: Bruce Broughton
December 03, 2020 07:40 - 1 hour - 64.7 MBI’m extremely pleased to introduce my guest today, Emmy Award Winning TV and Film Composer, Bruce Broughton. He is the composer for films such as Silverado, Tombstone, The Rescuers Down Under, and written memorable TV themes including The Orville, JAG, Spielberg’s Tiny Toon adventures and Dinosaurs. He has been nominated 24 times for the Emmy and has won a record 10 times. His score to the movie Silverado was nominated for an Academy Award and his score to Young Sherlock Holmes was nominated...
109: Enrico Baiano
November 23, 2020 02:21 - 1 hour - 118 MBMy guest today is Harpsichordist and Fortepianist Professor Enrico Baiano. An award-winning international performer, Baiano has extensively recorded works by JS Bach, Johann Jakob Froberger, and Domenico Scarlatti to name a few. He has published a method for the Harpsichord in 2010 and with Marco Moiraghi, published a book called “The sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti” in 2014. 00:48 Beginnings 2:25 When did you start playing keyboard instruments? 2:53 What made you decide to make music yo...
108: Cyprien Katsaris
November 01, 2020 16:55 - 1 hour - 93.8 MBMy guest today is the famed virtuoso concert pianist and composer, Cyprien Katsaris. One of the most renowned concert pianists of both the 20th and 21st centuries, Katsaris has performed with the world’s greatest orchestras and recorded extensively over his storied career. We talk about his transcriptions, compositions, playing the Cziffra Flight of Bumblee live in front of Cziffra on TV, being told by the world's most powerful classical music agent not to play transcriptions, his famed sigh...
107: Emily Miller
October 27, 2020 08:27 - 1 hour - 101 MBI’m so pleased to introduce my guest today, musician, vocalist and bandleader Emily Miller. A graduate of Berklee College of Music, She is the Creative Director for Boston Common Entertainment and Her debut album, "Stronger Every Day" was released in August 2020. 0:37 What are your earliest musical memories? 2:39 How young were you when you started formal lessons? 3:50 Were these classical piano lessons? 6:48 Describe your first voice lessons 8:58 What kind of music were you listening ...
106: Philipp Teriete
October 19, 2020 04:55 - 1 hour - 109 MBIt’s my pleasure to introduce my guest today, pianist, composer, educator, and researcher, Philipp Teriete. Today we will explore the improvisation and partimento in the 19th century, the great French music teacher Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmerman, Frederic Chopin's music education, the influence of German music theory in early ragtime and jazz composers and so much more! 0:38 What is your background and how did you come to your present areas of research? 4:40 Who was Pierre-Joseph-Guil...
105: Richie Hart
October 12, 2020 02:54 - 1 hour - 84.2 MBMy guest today is one of the masters of jazz guitar and jazz education, Richie Hart. He has performed with some of the biggest names in jazz including Ron Carter, Jimmy Cobb, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Don Patterson, Jack McDuff, Freddie Hubbard, Hubert Laws, Houston Person, Etta Jones, just to name a few and is a professor of jazz guitar at Berklee College of Music. 0:37 Beginnings 4:41 Where was George Benson’s career at the time you met him? 6:08 Do you remember the first tune you played toget...
104: Rami Bar-Niv
September 28, 2020 03:12 - 52 minutes - 73.4 MBMy guest today is Concert Pianist, Composer, and Music Educator Rami Bar-Niv. Rami Bar-Niv made history by being the first, and so far the only, Israeli artist to perform in Egypt following the Begin/Sadat Peace Treaty. Praised as “Effective and Flamboyant” by the New York Times and “An Original major talent” by the Boston Globe, Bar-Niv is an international concert performer who has written two books, the first is the “Art of Piano Fingering” and the second his autobiography “Blood, Sweat, a...
103: Tommy Emmanuel
September 16, 2020 19:06 - 1 hour - 60 MBA personal hero of mine is on the show today: 2-time Grammy nominee, Guitar Virtuoso, Tommy Emmanuel CGP (Certified Guitar Player)! His latest album is 2020’s The Best of Tommysongs, a double CD that features some of Tommy’s best original works with 5 brand new songs. 1:03 Nikhil’s personal musical journey starting with Tommy Emmanuel 5:01 How many solo’s did you learn off records? 6:38 Tommy’s advice for young musicians, “Get to Work!” 7:36 What do you mean by working 3hrs on a song? ...
102: Peter Schubert
August 05, 2020 17:23 - 1 hour - 75.3 MBMy guest today is Professor Peter Schubert. He holds a Ph.D. in musicology from Columbia University and is currently an Associate Professor at the McGill University Faculty of Music. He is the author of the textbook, “Modal Counterpoint: Renaissance Style” (Oxford University Press, 1999). and with colleague Christoph Neidhoefer he also co-authored “Baroque Counterpoint” (Prentice-Hall, 2005). He is known for teaching improvised vocal counterpoint in his classes.
101: David Mesquita
July 27, 2020 07:06 - 1 hour - 77 MBMy Guest today is Professor David Mesquita, he teaches ear training, sightsinging, Historical satzlehre Renaissance through to the Romantic at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. His research focuses on Spanish Music and music theory, as well as improvised counterpoint. 0:30 What is your background? 1:31 On learning both Fixed Do and Moveable Do growing up at the same time 2:19 Do you have Absolute or Perfect Pitch? 2:49 What repertoire did you use when studying solfege? 4:05 Students who...
100: Derek Remeš
July 20, 2020 04:26 - 1 hour - 77.1 MBMy guest today is Music Theorist, Organist and Composer, Derek Remeš. He is known for his research into the pedagogy behind Johann Sebastian’s Bach method of composition and improvisation. He also is the admin for Facebook group that he started,”Composition and Improvisation in J.S. Bach’s Germany”. ----- 0:36 What is your musical background? 2:37 Has anyone in Bach research looked at his craft of improvisation? 4:47 Do all organists have to improvise? 5:47 Did you have a background i...
99: Rosa Cafiero
July 13, 2020 06:13 - 58 minutes - 67.6 MBWhat a great thrill to be joined by a very special guest, Professor Rosa Cafiero of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, the department of History, Archaeology and Art History. She is here to talk about her latest book La didattica del partimento (a collection of nine essays, revisited and adjourned for the digital era). She is one of the great, early pioneers of Partimento research! ----- 0:55 The word for department in Italian is dipartimento 1:23 On being a graduate of the San P...