Domenico Scarlatti (1 янв 1685 г. – 1 янв 1757 г.)
Описание:
an Italian composer. He is classified primarily as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style and he was one of the few Baroque composers to transition into the classical period. Like his renowned father Alessandro Scarlatti, he composed in a variety of musical forms, although today he is known mainly for his 555 keyboard sonatas. He spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal familiesScarlatti
1. Scarlatti aesthetically belongs in the Enlightenment.
2. Precocious son of Alessandro Scarlatti, Domenico spent most of career on the Iberian
Peninsula.
a. In Madrid he was free to compose whatever he wished—which was mostly keyboard music, specifically harpsichord.
b. His creative spirit unbound by rules, he invented a new type of composition
that he called “ingenious jesting with art.”
c. His works require instrumental virtuosity and are visually exciting.
3. The lack of symbolism in the sonatas places them in the tradition of seventeenthcentury Italian instrumental music.
4. Formally, the sonatas follow a modern format.
5. Scarlatti found his stride as a composer relatively late in life (early fifties), and his
works, while recognized as unique and original, more properly belong to the next generation of
composers, rather than that of Bach and Handel.
Some key terms...
Double Return: return of both tonic and the exposition after the development in a sonata form movement. Following a harmonically and thematically freer development section, the double return creates one of the dramatic events of the sonata form.
***Far out point: a harmonic element in a sonata...you need to ask someone about this because I cannot find a definition of this for the life of me
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Дата:
1 янв 1685 г.
1 янв 1757 г.
~ 72 years