Episode 11 of the Art of Composing Podcast. We interview Robert Gjerdingen, author of the book "Music in the Galant Style". We talk about Partimenti, the tool used to train the greatest composers from Mozart to Debussy and Stravinsky, as well as his new research into how music fits really well into constructionist linguistic theory. What is in this episode: * What Partimenti are and why you should care. * How composers like Mozart would have actually learned to composed. * How composition is very similar to speaking a language. Support the Podcast! Click Here to go to Jon's Patreon page, and support the podcast! http://patreon.com/artofcomposing Resources and Links Mentioned in this Episode: Joint Improvisation by Alma Deutscher and Tobias Cramm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nubC3dktQ24 Four Improvisations for Piano by Arensky, Rachmaninov, Glazunov & Taneyev https://youtu.be/PlFPOWuwBHI?t=2s Robert Gjerdingen's Book Music in the Galant Style *This is an affiliate link to amazon Schema Theory as a Construction Grammar http://www.mtosmt.org/issues/mto.15.21.2/mto.15.21.2.gjerdingen_bourne.html Robert Gjerdingen’s Website http://faculty-web.at.northwestern.edu/music/gjerdingen/index.htm Monuments of Partimenti http://faculty-web.at.northwestern.edu/music/gjerdingen/partimenti/index.htm Robert Gjerdingen’s Free Course On Playing Partimenti https://sites.google.com/site/partimenti/courses 1000 Harmonic Exercises by Anton Arensky https://www.scribd.com/doc/305313092/1000-Problems-for-the-Practical-Study-of-Harmony-by-Anton-Arensky