Latest Solfeggio Podcast Episodes
157: Ewald Demeyere (Fedele Fenaroli's Partimenti and Pedagogy)
Nikhil Hogan Show - April 01, 2024 02:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsProfessor 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)
Nikhil Hogan Show - March 01, 2024 11:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsIn 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 pr...
174: Niels Berentsen (1300-1500 Polyphony | Improvising Vocal Counterpoint)
Nikhil Hogan Show - February 01, 2024 01:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsI 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 hist...
167: Solfeggio Panel (Baragwanath, Gjerdingen, IJzerman, van Tour)
Nikhil Hogan Show - February 01, 2024 01:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsToday 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 guidon...
177: Robert O. Gjerdingen (Music Schema Theory)
Nikhil Hogan Show - January 01, 2024 00:22 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsI'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, ...
156: Peter Schubert (Palestrina, Fux, Counterpoint)
Nikhil Hogan Show - December 24, 2023 00:38 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings0:00 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 o...
141: Job IJzerman (Harmony, Counterpoint, Partimento)
Nikhil Hogan Show - December 21, 2023 14:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratings0:00 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 polyp...
140: Wim Winters (Whole Beat Metronome Principle)
Nikhil Hogan Show - August 01, 2023 00:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratings0:00 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 ...
139: Peter Seivewright
Nikhil Hogan Show - July 05, 2023 13:13 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsPETER 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 reviewe...
138: Nicholas Baragwanath
Nikhil Hogan Show - June 20, 2022 04:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratings0:00 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? ...
137: Derek Remes
Nikhil Hogan Show - April 05, 2022 02:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratings0:00 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 direct...
137 - Derek Remes
Nikhil Hogan Show - April 05, 2022 02:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratings0:00 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 direct...
136: Peter Schubert
Nikhil Hogan Show - December 14, 2021 17:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsProfessor 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
Nikhil Hogan Show - September 30, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsMy 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
Nikhil Hogan Show - September 24, 2021 15:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsI’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 m...
133: Patrick Ayrton
Nikhil Hogan Show - September 09, 2021 13:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsMy 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
Nikhil Hogan Show - August 30, 2021 15:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsHarpsichordist and Composer, Jonathan Salamon, joins the show to discuss his article on the Leo Schema.
131: Johannes Menke
Nikhil Hogan Show - August 30, 2021 14:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsProfessor Johannes Menke joins the podcast to discuss the French Baroque Style, Satzmodelle in 17th-century French music, and more.
130: Rossano Sportiello
Nikhil Hogan Show - July 29, 2021 15:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsI’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 Ha...
129: Nicole DiPaolo
Nikhil Hogan Show - June 11, 2021 12:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsI’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 onl...
128: Adem Merter Birson
Nikhil Hogan Show - May 29, 2021 16:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsMy 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, p...
127: Alex de Grassi
Nikhil Hogan Show - May 19, 2021 13:58 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsI’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 h...
126: Robert Gjerdingen
Nikhil Hogan Show - May 12, 2021 16:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsI 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 boo...
125: Riccardo Castagnetti
Nikhil Hogan Show - April 30, 2021 15:58 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsI’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
Nikhil Hogan Show - April 29, 2021 17:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsI’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 t...
123: Terry Gibbs
Nikhil Hogan Show - April 23, 2021 03:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsIt’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 excelle...
122: Nicola Pignatiello
Nikhil Hogan Show - March 29, 2021 15:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsI’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. ...
121: Jon Raney
Nikhil Hogan Show - March 23, 2021 01:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsMy 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
Nikhil Hogan Show - March 19, 2021 02:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsDavey 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-...
119: Noam Sivan
Nikhil Hogan Show - March 08, 2021 04:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsMy 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 improvisa...
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