Musicus Practicus Academy
Learn to Compose Music as if you had lived in the Baroque or in the Renaissance
Baroque Path
Follow in the footsteps of Bach, Handel, and Vivaldi.
Learn to compose music through the historical teaching of the Baroque era—based on Partimenti, the method that shaped the greatest composers in history.
Partimento, Figured Bass & Improvisation:
Learn to compose, harmonize, and improvise like the Baroque masters through partimenti, basso continuo, and real-time creativity.Counterpoint, Fugues & Chorales
Master species and free counterpoint, write structured fugues, and harmonize chorales in the authentic Baroque style.Galant Schematas & Baroque Rhetoric
Internalize recurring compositional patterns and use them to shape elegant, expressive music with historical awareness.Dance Forms & Suite Structure
Study, compose, and organize all major Baroque dances—Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Gigue—into stylistically coherent suites.Historical Composition Training
Go beyond theory: write preludes, sonatas, and multi-voice works using the same practical methods taught to Bach, Handel, and their students.
Renaissance Path
What would you have learned if you had lived in the time of Palestrina?
Follow in the footsteps of a 16th-century Musicus and master all the disciplines of the art of Renaissance music.
Hexachordal Solmization
Learn to read and internalize music using the original six-note solmization system (Ut–Re–Mi–Fa–Sol–La), the foundation of Renaissance musical literacy.Cantus Firmus
Master the art of composing and analyzing plainchant melodies that serve as the structural backbone of modal counterpoint.Cantus Figuratus
Discover how to read and perform directly from original Renaissance Mensural Notation, without relying on modern transcriptions.Tones and Modes
Understand the expressive power of the 8 ecclesiastical tones and 12 Renaissance modes, and learn to compose in true modal style.2-Part Counterpoint
Begin your counterpoint training by writing and singing two-voice exercises that teach voice independence, consonance, and melodic flow.Advanced Counterpoint
Dive into more complex structures with invertible counterpoint, imitation, canon, and multi-voice composition in Renaissance style.
Discover all the Paths
One single starting point: Hexachordal Solmization.
Baroque/Renaissance 1 - Hexachordal Solmization
The Reading Method with Hexachords
If you don't read music through the eyes of the Ancient Musician, you'll miss out on so many details!
Step into the shoes of an ancient musician, delve into their mindset, and learn to read Music with Hexachords!
Learn Solmisation and start to grasp the most refined details concealed within the melodies!
Baroque
Baroque 2 - Partimento
The Partimento Method
Functional Harmony doesn’t work.
If you want to compose like a Baroque musician, you must think like a Baroque Musicus.
Instead of abstract rules, you’ll learn through Partimenti—the practical system used by Bach, Handel, and their students.
This level is structured in 12 focused Chapters, each designed to build a specific skill and expand your musical vocabulary step by step.
What you’ll master:
Music Theory, 2-, 3-, and 4-Part Counterpoint, Cadences & Advanced Cadences, Rule of the Octave, Galant Schematas, Fenaroli’s Partimenti Numerati (Figured), Durante’s Partimenti Diminuiti
Baroque 3 - Suite and Dances
The Dance Movements of the Baroque Style
The Essence of Dance is Rhythm
Even before harmony and counterpoint, in dance, there is rhythm.
In this level, you will learn the characteristic rhythms of various dances and how to compose musical phrases that reflect the unique traits of each one.
You will study, analyze, and then compose a wide range of dances, including:
Allemande, Sarabande, Minuet, Gavotte, Bourrée, French Courante, Italian Corrente, Loure, Passepied, French Gigue, and Italian Giga.
Baroque 4 - Chorale and Partitas
The Sacred Music for the Organ and the Choir
Learn to harmonize a chorale melody in each of the four voices.
Chorale in the soprano, bass, tenor, and alto.
Learn to develop preludes and variations on the chorale, for both organ and harpsichord.
Baroque 5 - Fugue
The Sacred Chant of the Catholic Church
Perfect and Imperfect Tones, Mixti and Commixti, Regular and Irregular
Cantus Firmus is the Gregorian Chant as it was conceived and performed in the Renaissance, but it is much more than that.
It is the study of melodies in the 8 Ecclesiastical Tones, and it is the foundation upon which ancient musicians learned to create chants that were coherent and appropriate to the Tone.
Learn Cantus Firmus, and discover everything about Perfect, Imperfect, Authentic, Plagal, Mixed, Commixed, and Irregular Tones!
Renaissance
Renaissance 2 - Cantus Firmus
The Sacred Chant of the Catholic Church
Perfect and Imperfect Tones, Mixti and Commixti, Regular and Irregular
Cantus Firmus is the Gregorian Chant as it was conceived and performed in the Renaissance, but it is much more than that.
It is the study of melodies in the 8 Ecclesiastical Tones, and it is the foundation upon which ancient musicians learned to create chants that were coherent and appropriate to the Tone.
Learn Cantus Firmus, and discover everything about Perfect, Imperfect, Authentic, Plagal, Mixed, Commixed, and Irregular Tones!
Renaissance 3 - Cantus Figuratus
The White Mensutal Notation of the Renaissance
In the Renaissance, Transcriptions did not exist!
Ancient musicians read Mensural Notation, also known as Cantus Figuratus or Cantus Mensurabilis, a type of notation that uses the Mensura, the property of certain notes to be Perfect or Imperfect.
To authentically perform Renaissance music, we must know the rules governing this system and also be able to read from the original scores!
Learn how to read Mensural Notation directly from the ancient sources yourself!
Renaissance 4 - Tones and Modes
The Modal System of the Renaissance Counterpoint
The Modes are not 12, and they are not built on scales!
Everything you know about the Renaissance modal system is probably wrong.
Renaissance modality—the starting point of counterpoint—is entirely built on the species of the diapente and diatessaron, on transpositions for the Chorsita voice, high instruments, and low instruments.
Learn the system of the 12 Modes and the 8 + 1 Ecclesiastical Tones in the Renaissance Practice!
Renaissance 5 - Tones and Modes
2 - Part Counterpoint
The Modes are not 12, and they are not built on scales!
Everything you know about the Renaissance modal system is probably wrong.
Renaissance modality—the starting point of counterpoint—is entirely built on the species of the diapente and diatessaron, on transpositions for the Chorsita voice, high instruments, and low instruments.
Learn the system of the 12 Modes and the 8 + 1 Ecclesiastical Tones in the Renaissance Practice!
Renaissance 6 - Advanced Counterpoint
2 - Part Counterpoint
The Modes are not 12, and they are not built on scales!
Everything you know about the Renaissance modal system is probably wrong.
Renaissance modality—the starting point of counterpoint—is entirely built on the species of the diapente and diatessaron, on transpositions for the Chorsita voice, high instruments, and low instruments.
Learn the system of the 12 Modes and the 8 + 1 Ecclesiastical Tones in the Renaissance Practice!
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