Scarlatti - An Introduction to His Keyboard Works

Scarlatti - An Introduction to His Keyboard Works

Author: Domenico Scarlatti

Publisher: Alfred Music

Published: 2005-05-03

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 1457444186

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This carefully edited volume contains 19 of Scarlatti's easiest pieces, including minuets, sonatas and assorted other works. Suggestions for interpretation and a discussion of the original editions are provided. Unique to this collection is a consideration of figured bass as used in several of Scarlatti's sonatas.


Scarlatti -- An Introduction to His Keyboard Works

Scarlatti -- An Introduction to His Keyboard Works

Author: Margery Halford

Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing

Published: 1974-06

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9780739022153

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This carefully edited volume contains 19 of Scarlatti's easiest pieces, including minuets, sonatas and assorted other works. Suggestions for interpretation and a discussion of the original editions are provided. Unique to this collection is a consideration of figured bass as used in several of Scarlatti's sonatas. A Federation Festivals 2020-2024 selection.


At the Piano with Scarlatti

At the Piano with Scarlatti

Author: Domenico Scarlatti

Publisher: Alfred Music

Published: 2005-05-03

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9781457406225

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This edition will assist piano students in achieving a better, more stylistically correct interpretation of Domenico Scarlatti’s piano music. These 16 intermediate to late intermediate level sonatas include dynamics, fingering, articulation and phrasing, realization of ornaments and metronome indications in parentheses. Historical background, performance problems and performance suggestions, including pedaling, are included in the "About Each Sonata" section.


Scarlatti's Cat

Scarlatti's Cat

Author: Nathaniel Lachenmeyer

Publisher: Carolrhoda Books

Published: 2014-03-01

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 0761354727

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Domenico Scarlatti, the great Italian composer, enjoys his cat's company when he plays harpsichord. Little does he know, his cat, Pulcinella also dreams of composing her own music! One day, while chasing a mouse, she tumbles onto the harpsichord. Suddenly, she can't resist the urge to play. When she begins to play, Scarlatti's eyes widen?


Schubert -- An Introduction to His Piano Works

Schubert -- An Introduction to His Piano Works

Author: Margery Halford

Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing

Published: 1977-06

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9780739019641

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This collection contains 25 selections including dances, Moment Musicaux," an impromptu, a set of variations and various other works. Schubert's compositional output, musical style and use of ornaments are discussed in the preface. Original editions and more recent editions were consulted and significant discrepancies appear as footnotes. "


First Book for Pianists

First Book for Pianists

Author: Domenico Scarlatti

Publisher: Alfred Music

Published:

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 9781457440397

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These short, pleasing pieces assist early-intermediate pianists in developing overall musicianship and technique. The collection contains sonatas, minuets, an "Aria" and a "Pastoral" written in binary form. Halford provides suggestions for style and interpretation in a foreword, and includes fingering, phrasing and notated ornaments in light print within each composition. This is an important volume for students new to Scarlatti's brilliant and lyrical keyboard styles.


An Introduction to His Piano Works

An Introduction to His Piano Works

Author: Béla Bartók

Publisher: Alfred Music

Published:

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9781457412189

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This volume contains 31 pieces from The First Term at the Piano, For Children, 10 Easy Pieces and 7 Sketches. The informative foreword includes Bartók's specific instructions on wrist and finer action, articulations and syncopation. Each piece is prefaced by a brief introduction.


The Keyboard Sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti and Eighteenth-Century Musical Style

The Keyboard Sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti and Eighteenth-Century Musical Style

Author: W. Dean Sutcliffe

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-08-28

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 1139441094

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W. Dean Sutcliffe investigates one of the greatest yet least understood repertories of Western keyboard music: the 555 keyboard sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti. Scarlatti occupies a position of solitary splendour in musical history. The sources of his style are often obscure and his immediate influence is difficult to discern. Further, the lack of hard documentary evidence has hindered musicological activity. Dr Sutcliffe offers not just a thorough reconsideration of the historical factors that have contributed to Scarlatti's position, but also sustained engagement with the music, offering both individual readings and broader commentary of an unprecedented kind. A principal task of this book is to remove the composer from his critical ghetto (however honourable) and redefine his image. In so doing it will reflect on the historiographical difficulties involved in understanding eighteenth-century musical style.


Ornamentation - A Question & Answer Manual

Ornamentation - A Question & Answer Manual

Author: Carole Bigler

Publisher: Alfred Music

Published: 2005-05-03

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 145744237X

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This guide to understanding ornamentation in each era of music includes information on how to understand and remain faithful to the composer's intention, how many and which notes to use in each ornament, how to integrate ornaments smoothly into a performance and simple strategies and systems for realizing and practicing ornaments. A synthesis of years of scholarly research resulting in a logical, easy to follow and accurate volume.