xix, 473 pages illustrations, folded genealogical table, music 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Italy
Italie
Date:
1953
18th century
18e siècle
Notes:
"Keyboard works": p.399-412. "Vocal music": p.413-424. "Miscellaneous, doubtful and spurious works": p.425-428. "Catalogue of Scarlatti sonatas and table of principal sources in approximately chronological order": p.442-456. "Table of sonatas in the order of Longo's edition": p.457-459
Contents:
Appendices. Appendix I. The Scarlatti family. A. Notes on the Scarlatti family ; B. The Scarlatti family tree -- Appendix II. Documents, chronologically arranged, concerning Domenico Scarlatti and his offspring -- Appendix III. Documents concerning instruments. A. Cardinal Ottoboni's instruments ; B. Inventory of Queen Maria Barbara's instruments ; C. Provisions of Farinelli's testament concerning music and instruments ; D. Indications for registration in Scarlatti's organ pieces -- Appendix IV. Ornamentation in Scarlatti. Sources of information ; The appoggiatura ; The short appoggiatura ; The long appoggiatura ; The trill ; The tied trill ; The trill with termination ; The upper appoggiatura and trill ; The lower appoggiatura and trill ; The rhythmic values of the trill ; The tremulo [i.e. tremolo] ; The remaining ornaments not indicated by signs: the mordent, the turn, the slide, the acciaccatura, arpeggiation ; Additions to Scarlatti's text ; Peculiarities of rhythmic notation -- Appendix V. Keyboard works. A. Principal manuscript sources ; B. Note on miscellaneous manuscripts of secondary importance ; C. Eighteenth-century editions ; D. The editions of Czerny, Longo, Gerstenberg, and Newton -- Appendix VI. Vocal music. A. Operas ; B. Oratorios, serenades, and other occasional pieces ; C. Partial list of chamber cantatas and arias attributed to Domenico Scarlatti ; D. Church music -- Appendix VII. Miscellaneous, doubtful, and spurious works. A. Miscellaneous works attributed to Domenico Scarlatti ; B. Spurious keyboard works ; C. Spurious vocal works -- Bibliography -- Catalogue of sonatas and table of principal sources in approximately chronological order ; Table of sonatas in the order of Longo's edition
The fledgling. Naples ; Birth ; The Scarlatti family ; The conservatories ; Alessandro's teaching ; Domenico's first employment ; Political uncertainty ; First voyage ; Rome ; Florence and Ferdinando de' Medici ; Cristofori's instruments ; Domenico's first operas ; Departure from Naples -- The young eagle. Alessandro's letter ; Venice ; Music and masquerades ; The conservatories ; Gasparini ; The Venetian opera ; First account of Domenico's harpsichord playing ; Roseingrave ; Friendship with Handel -- Roman patrimony. Queen Cristina and her circle ; Cardinal Ottoboni ; Pasquini ; Corelli ; Arcadia ; Maria Casimira of Poland ; Capeci, Juvarra, and Domenico's operas -- Church and theater. The Vatican ; The Portuguese embassy ; Roman theaters and Domenico's last operas ; Emancipation ; The mythical London voyage ; Departure -- Lisbon patriarchy. Lisbon ; Joao V ; Royal chapel ; Maria Barbara ; Don Antonio ; Seixas ; Alessandro's death ; Domenico's marriage ; Royal weddings -- The Spanish scene. Seville ; Felipe V and Isabel Farnese ; Fernando and Maria Barbara ; Aranjuez, La Granja, Escorial ; Madrid ; Juvarra and the royal palace ; Arrival of Farinelli ; Madrid opera ; Scarlatti's knighthood ; Essercizi per gravicembalo ; Scarlatti's portrait ; Death of Catalina Scarlatti ; Death of Felipe V -- The reign of the Melomanes. Accession of Fernando and Maria Barbara ; Scarlatti and Farinelli ; Palace opera ; Embarkations at Aranjuez ; Harpsichord sonatas ; Scarlatti's second marriage and family ; Amiconi's portrait ; Scarlatti's only surviving letter ; Royal chapel ; Soler ; Scarlatti's reputation outside Spain ; Forebodings of the end ; Scarlatti's testament and death ; Death of Maria Barbara, of Fernando VI ; New regime and Farinelli's departure ; Posterity -- Royal sonatas. The Queen's and other manuscripts ; The missing autographs ; The designation sonata ; The pairwise arrangement ; Chronology of the sonatas ; Early works, background of Scarlatti's keyboard style ; The earliest pieces ; The fugues ; Early sonatas ; The Essercizi ; The flamboyant period and the easy pieces ; The middle period ; The late sonatas -- Scarlatti's harpsichord. Farinelli's and the Queen's instruments ; Conclusions as to Scarlatti's harpsichord ; The early pianoforte ; Scarlatti's organ music ; Scarlatti's harpsichord playing ; Scarlatti's keyboard technique ; Harpsichord sound as bounded by the organ, guitar, and orchestra ; Shadings of harpsichord sound ; Imitations of other instruments ; The influence of the Spanish guitar -- Scarlatti's harmony. Consistency of Scarlatti's harmonic style ; Basic triads and the three-chord analysis ; Inversion and fundamental bass ; Remaining elements of harmonic vocabulary, peculiarities of seventh chords ; Cadential vs. diatonic movement of harmony ; Vertical harmonic intensities ; Essential peculiarities of Scarlatti's treatment: dropping and adding of voices, transposition of voices, harmonic ellipse, pedal points both real and understood ; Harmonic superposition ; Contractions and extensions ; Longo's "corrections" and Scarlatti's intentions ; Equal temperament and key system ; Soler's rules for modulation ; Temporary and structural modulation -- The anatomy of the Scarlatti sonata. The varied organism of the Scarlatti sonata ; Definition ; Identification and function of its members, the Crux ; The opening ; The continuation ; The transition ; The pre-Crux ; The post-crux ; The closing ; The further closing ; The final closing ; The excursion ; The restatement ; Main types of form ; The closed sonata ; The open sonata ; Exceptional forms ; Tonal structure ; Treatment of thematic material, the three main traditions ; The interplay of forces that shape the Scarlatti sonata -- The performance of the Scarlatti sonatas. Attitude of the performer ; Scarlatti's text ; Registration and dynamics ; Tempo and rhythm ; Phrasing, articulation, and inflection ; Expressive range
The fledgling -- The young eagle -- Roman patrimony -- Church and theater -- Lisbon patriarchy -- The Spanish scene -- The reign of the Melomanes -- Royal sonatas -- Scarlatti's harpsichord -- Scarlatti's harmony -- The anatomy of the Scarlatti sonata -- The performance of the Scarlatti sonatas
