Scarlatti Keyboard Sonatas, a 3-part Course: March 9, 16, 30

Domenico Scarlatti – Keyboard Sonatas 

3 Classes – Harpsichordist Trevor Stephenson, instructor
March 9, 16, and 30, 2021 — Tuesday evenings from 6-7 pm via Zoom

Enrollment for the class limited to 30 participants
Fee $75 for the three-class course
Contact Trevor Stephenson at trevor@trevorstephenson.com to enroll

Three days before each class, participants will receive a link to Trevor’s HD video recording-performance
of the material for that week and a PDF score clearly marked with the fingerings used in the video recording.

• Scarlatti’s life: Italy – Naples & Rome, Portugal, Spain
• Personality, employment, colleagues
• Sources for the keyboard sonatas
• His uses of Binary Form
• Keyboard technique: Approaches to fingering, articulation, agogic accents, arpeggiation, hand crossing
• Tempo: indications, rate, regularity, rubato
• Ornamentation: realizing specified ornaments, improvising ornaments
• Line, rhythm, harmonic language, spacing and texture
• Types of instruments Scarlatti may have played:
  Italian, German, French & Spanish harpsichords, fortepianos, clavichords & organs
• Keyboard temperaments and pitch levels (e.g., A=390, 400, 415, 440, 465HZ…), historical precedents
• Publication, performance, and reception history
• Recordings and discography

Sonatas for Class Study

D minor, K. 1
D minor, K. 9
G minor, K. 30 “Cat’s Fugue”
B minor, K. 87
A major, K. 113
C minor, K. 156
C major, K. 159
A major, K. 208
A major, K. 209
E major, K. 215
F minor, K 238
F minor, K. 239
G major, K. 259
E minor, K. 263
A major, K. 322
E major, K. 380
G major, K. 470
C major, K. 513