Scarlatti sonata performance help please

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I am suspicious about my editions of Scarlatti…

in K 491 (Longo 164 in D) at bar 76 and other places I see notes that are well below the bass clef. Is this correct for Scarlatti? I thought that baroque keyboards went down only to the C below the bass clef. (what is that C called? C0?)

in K 380 (L 23 in E) bars 12-17 have identical rythms with the exception of bar 16 where the tie between the second and third eighth notes is missing. Is this a typo?

also in K 380, at bar 18 there is a trill that is written out - it is on C#-B, is that correct?

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Um, which edition do you have? Schirmers? (I find them to be very heavily edited and overly-interpreted.)

3

Wow!! You’re good! It is Schirmers (Kirkpatrick) for K491. For K380 I copied some sheet music off the net, so it’s unknown.

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Schirmer seems to be the standard for (what I consider) bad editing and schmaltziness. Your best best is to locate an Urtext (original) edition - perhaps a mansucript copy (Dover books may have one), or even a regularly printed copy by another publisher (again, I recommend Dover).

Yup, on checking google.com under (Scarlatti Dover) - Dover does publish 4 books of Scarlatti sonatas (scroll down to Scarlatti), available on-line but in limited quantities, or check your local bookstore (I order all my Dover books through my local bookstores (keeps 'em in business).

(I love listening to Scarlatti, but can’t play keyboards any more - hands and wrists are too gnarled from auto acidents.)

5

Thanks for the tips Screech.

My hands are fine but I can’t play Scarlatti either, but I’ll keep trying :slight_smile:

6

Okay, gotta ask…

Are you named for Mozart’s Simphonia Concertante, Vivaldi’s Concertanta, or Scarlatti’s Sonata?

All catalogued as K364.

7

Again: Wow!! I was hoping to go for years with that private little secret. And, I’ve never even thought of the Scarlatti or Vivaldi.

It’s Mozart. There’s something about that piece that defines the universe for me.

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::high-fives herself, losing a couple of wing feathers in the process::

Heh.

Actually Vivaldi’s work are identified with “RV” (Ryom Verzeichnis - Ryom being the cataloguer, and “Verzeichhnis” being the German word for ‘catalogue’), but I have seen them listed with a “K” number (not sure who or what it means), though not to be confused with Mozart’s “(Ludwi Ritter von) Koechel” listings, Carl Friedrich Abel’s “(Walter) Knape” listings, or Scarlatti’s “(Ralph) Kirkpatrick” listings*.

Anyway, happy playing.

    • can you tell I love Duck’s Breath Mystery Theatre’s “Dr. Science”?

** - for the education of the non-classical musical Dopers reading this

*** - alternately listed with a “L” number, catalogued by Alessandro Longo