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Sonata in D Major for String Quartet
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| Composer : | Scarlatti, Domenico (1685 - 1757) | ||||
| Instrumentation : | String Quartet | ||||
| Style : | Baroque | ||||
| Key : | D major | ||||
| Arranger : Publisher : | MAGATAGAN, MICHAEL (1960 - ) | ||||
| Copyright : | Public Domain | ||||
| Added by magataganm, 20 Sep 2023 Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (1685 – 1757) was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. Today he is known mainly for his 555 keyboard sonatas. 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. He was born in 1685, the same year as Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel. Probably one of the most outrageously individual compositional outputs of the Baroque era is to be found in the keyboard sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti. His sonatas are perhaps the most successful works to migrate from the harpsichord to the modern grand piano. Their transparent texture of simple two- and three-part keyboard writing has one foot in the imitative counterpoint of the Baroque while anticipating the Classical era of Haydn and Mozart in their clarity of phrase structure and harmonic simplicity. Especially appealing to modern performers is their pungently flavourful evocations of the popular folk music of Spain, not to mention the flurries of repeated notes, octaves and register-spanning arpeggios that make them such effective vehicles for pianistic display. The Scarlatti sonatas are typically in binary form, with a first half that ends in the dominant and a second half that works its way back from the dominant to the home tonality. They are now referenced by means of the Kirkpatrick (K) numbers assigned to them by Ralph Kirkpatrick in 1953, replacing the less chronologically precise Longo (L) numbers of Alessandro Longo’s first complete edition of 1906. Scarlatti’s early career was based in Naples, and his introverted Sonata in B minor K 197 displays the recurring streaks of pathos that Neapolitan music revels in. The melodic line whimpers with plaintive little appoggiaturas as harmonic tension accumulates from the use of stubbornly immovable pedal points in the bass. The Sonata in D Major (K.491) is flanked by two others in the same key, the K. 490 and 492, that Scarlatti almost certainly wrote in the same brief time span. All were preserved, along with 27 other sonatas, in the 12th Venice volume of the composer's works, dated 1756. While they may not have been written that year, they likely date to not more than a year or two earlier. The Sonata is marked Allegro and has a slightly unusual structure for a Scarlatti sonata: the composer presents his main thematic wares, pauses, then moves onto the secondary material, almost as if it is a wholly new thematic group or a development section. Of course, as was his pattern, Scarlatti presents the expository material a second time before moving on to the actual development section, which is also given twice. The Sonata opens with an ebullient theme that springs from a three-note morsel and goes on to spawn rich contrapuntal activity. The second half of the exposition expands on the material from the opening and already goes in new directions. In the development section the themes are transformed only slightly, while maintaining their chipper, colorful character. Source: Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domenico_Scarlatti). Although originally composed for Solo Keyboard (Harpsichord), I created this Transcription of the Sonata in D Major (K.491) for String Quartet (2 Violins, Viola & Cello). Sheet central : | Sonate en Ré majeur (4 sheet music) | | |||
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