Baroque improvisation: on some cadences + practice concepts

Conception, musical examples and piano playing by Michael Koch
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Music for the disclaimer: little prelude assembled from a mash up of the shown patterns.

2:14 “What? You didn’t know that?”-quote by Teddy taken from Pete and Pete Episode “The trouble with Teddy” (1990's TV Show on Nickelodeon)

00:01 - Introduction
CADENCES WITH DIMINUTIONS
00:41 - Example 1: suspension archetype
1:35 - diminution 1
1:46 - diminution 2
2:18 - invertibility of upper voices
02:51 - Example 2: 3-4-5-1 bass with compound melody
3:45 - version with longer dominant bass note
4:23 - version with sustained resolution at tonic
04:46 - Example 3: descending scales
5:20 - examples with 3-4-5-1 bass line
5:47 - version in minor
6:19 - examples with 4-2-5-1 bass line
EXERCISES
06:49 - Exercise concept 1: add cadences to sequences to make complete musical phrases
07:12 - example 1: fauxbourdon + 3-4-5-1 cadence
07:37 - example 2: third down/second up sequence + suspension archetype
08:00 - Transposing via modulation
10:21 - Exercise concept 2: building sequences from cadential modules
11:07 - example 1: cadential bass diminution used in Romanesca/"Pachelbel" sequence
12:17 - example 2: cadential bass diminution used in ascending fifths sequence
13:42 - example 2a: starting on the fourth degree