Sonata in C major

Domenico Scarlatti · Level 5 (Advanced) · Baroque · Piano

One of Scarlatti’s 555 one-movement sonatas, brilliant and full of Iberian colour. C major, 12/8, 47 bars (about 2 minutes), complete score.

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How to practise it

• Listen first: the site plays it while the score scrolls.
• Wait mode: the score waits for you at every note, at your own pace.
• Tempo challenge: play in time, with a score and a map of the bars you got right.
• Light, precise touch, loose wrists in repeated notes and hand crossings. The piece starts with a pickup: count the incomplete bar before coming in. In 12/8, count the beats as groups of three eighths (dotted beats) to keep the lilt. One hand sometimes plays two voices: hold the long notes for their full value and let the main line sing louder than the accompaniment.

More pieces by Domenico Scarlatti

• Sonata in C minor K. 11
• Sonata in D major K. 491
• Sonata in G major K. 455
• Sonata in F♯ minor K. 25 (L. 481)
• Sonata in G major K. 75 (L. 53)
• Sonata in A major K. 220 (L. 342)
• Sonata in F minor K. 238 (L. 27)
• Sonata in D major K. 336 (L. 337)

Source : Mutopia Project · Public Domain