Piano Literature: Sonata and Variation

Lecture II: The Binary Sonata

Domenico Scarlatti (l685-1757): 555 Sonatas

Virtuoso Innovations:

extensive trills and shakes, rapid repeated notes, crossing of hands and large leaps, scalar passages in 3rds and 6ths, octaves, elaborate
ornamentation including arpeggios and acciaccaturas
Spanish elements of instrumentation including imitation of the lute and the guitar,
with stylistic dance rhythm (e.g., flamenco)

Editions of the Scarlatti Sonatas

Gyorgy Balla/Editio Musica Budapest: 200 Sonatas in 4 volumes
Emilia Fadini/New Ricordi: 333 Sonatas in 6 volumes (so far)
Kenneth Gilbert/Heugel: complete urtext
Eiji Hashimoto/Schirmer: 100 Sonatas in 3 volumes
Ralph Kirkpatrick/Princeton: complete autograph reproduction
Ralph Kirkpatrick/Schirmer: 60 Sonatas in 2 volumes
Alcssandro Longo/Old Ricordi: first complete edition

Padre Antonio Soler (1729-1783): 120 Sonatas
           Father Samuel Rubio/Union Musical Espanola: complete edition

Other Composers of Binary Sonatas

Domenico Albeiti (ca. 1710-1740)
Domenico Cimarosa ( 1749-1801)
Baldassare Galuppi (1706-1785)
Padre Martini ( 1706-1784)
Carlos de Seixas (1704-1742)

Listening List II

The German Baroque Masters and Passacaglia Form