Scarlatti D. | Keyboard Sonata in D K.443 | sheet music video
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Date: 2021-02-08

Domenico Scarlatti's keyboard Sonata in D. K.443 A encourages the keyboard player to explore legato a& staccato #keyboard articulations. Free sheetmusic link: https://plentymusic.uk/short/?c=RN4aXSf 

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A very appealing keyboard sonata although surprisingly there are not many recordings of this sonata available. Whilst the keyboard style of #Domenico Scarlatti is in evidence it is also a work in which a variety of moods are explored.  A tempo of 96 half note (minim) beats to the minute is suggested and used in the #piano realisation of this #baroque movement. It is a sonata allowing the player to explore options in legato and staccato keyboard articulations. The edited score has articulation and dynamic markings clearly indicated. Interestingly there are interpretations in which the performers improvise around the shapes offering rhythmic variants and something more than just additional ornamentation. This features in the two repeat sections. In the ornamentation – particularly at cadences there is a script but there is a tendency for performers to become very individual and for many the opportunity to be rather extreme!

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