• Scarlatti Sonatas Complete

: Scarlatti on Guitar and Ukulele.Colorful classical guitar.Classical guitarists have been attracted to Scarlatti'ssonatas because many of them are idiomatic and sound natural on pluckedinstruments. It should be noted that the sonority of the plucked string is thenatural home of the Baroque sound. Lutes, harpsichords, theorbos, spinets,Baroque guitars and harps all generate sound like the classical guitar andukulele of today.Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) lived the first half of his life in Naples, Italyand moved to the Iberian Peninsula in 1720, where he remained until his death.His first appointment was at the Royal court in Lisbon, Portugal. A decade laterhe moved to Madrid and took a position at the Royal Spanish court and it washere that the majority of his 550 harpsichord sonatas were written and where hisartistic personality began to flourish. Using his imagination, he tested thelimits and possibilities of the harpsichord resulting in compositions thatsurpassed his contemporaries in their originality and experimentation. Hisexpansion of keyboard technique and virtuosity have more in common with keyboardmusic written a century after his death.

Scarlatti Sonatas Complete

Chronologically, he is classified as aBaroque composer, although his music was influential in the development of theClassical style.Scarlatti's encounter with the Spanish culture had a profound effect on hiscompositions. The influence of folk music, the use of modes and other tonalinflections were more or less alien to European art music of the era.

Many ofhis chord patterns and dissonances are suggestive of the guitar. The eminentharpsichordist and musicologist Ralph Kirkpatrick said, 'As far as we know,Scarlatti never played the guitar, but surely no composer ever fell more deeplyunder its spell.'

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