Scarlatti and Me
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I've mentioned before that I started going through the Scarlatti sonatas as daily sight reading exercise.
I started in early 2018. As of today, I'm done. All 562.
562 you ask?
I did the 545 catalogued by Longo, added the 10 more that Kilpatrick found (getting to 555), played the one discovered in the Morgan Library ('Cary 703'), and the 6 recently found in the Cathedral of Zaragosa by Yañez.
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@jon-nyc Know this guy? Carlo Grante I bought a couple of the volumes. Nice playing.
@SD-Tav said in Scarlatti and Me:
@jon-nyc Know this guy? Carlo Grante I bought a couple of the volumes. Nice playing.
Yes I do. I have his Godowsky-Chopin etudes. Though you have to listen to them before you’ve heard Hamelin play them.
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Nice, Jon.
Next step: memorization
Final: Jon performs
The Ringall Scarlatti sonatas from memory. -
@SD-Tav said in Scarlatti and Me:
@jon-nyc Know this guy? Carlo Grante I bought a couple of the volumes. Nice playing.
Yes I do. I have his Godowsky-Chopin etudes. Though you have to listen to them before you’ve heard Hamelin play them.
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@jon-nyc Suggestion for a new project: read through all of the Haydn Sonatas. Many little-known gems. Over 50 to survey!
@SD-Tav said in Scarlatti and Me:
@jon-nyc Suggestion for a new project: read through all of the Haydn Sonatas. Many little-known gems. Over 50 to survey!
Yes! THey're good sight-reading material, indeed, if taken slowly.
So are the slow movements from the Mozart sonatas, but @jon-nyc won't go there, amirite?
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@jon-nyc That is awesome that you did that.
Did you notice improvement in your playing/site reading after this?
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Oh yeah. Sight reading is much better though I still have a long way to go.
They’ll end up, after a lot of drama, with the same formula they use every time they have a trifecta: take away health care and food assistance from low income families and use the money to fund tax cuts for their donors.
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@jon-nyc said in Scarlatti and Me:
Oh yeah. Sight reading is much better though I still have a long way to go.
Jon, it really is great you tackled all the Scarlatti.
But staying true to form, I'll continue to help:If you ever do perform them, I hope you explain who Kilpatrick was. I've never heard of him. Maybe just go by "Ralph K."(?)
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@George-K said in Scarlatti and Me:
Oh, by the way, shouldn't it be "Scarlatti and I?"
(asking for Aqua)
Depends on whether they are the subject or object which I left ambiguous
They’ll end up, after a lot of drama, with the same formula they use every time they have a trifecta: take away health care and food assistance from low income families and use the money to fund tax cuts for their donors.
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@SD-Tav said in Scarlatti and Me:
@jon-nyc Suggestion for a new project: read through all of the Haydn Sonatas. Many little-known gems. Over 50 to survey!
Yes! THey're good sight-reading material, indeed, if taken slowly.
So are the slow movements from the Mozart sonatas, but @jon-nyc won't go there, amirite?
@George-K said in Scarlatti and Me:
@SD-Tav said in Scarlatti and Me:
@jon-nyc Suggestion for a new project: read through all of the Haydn Sonatas. Many little-known gems. Over 50 to survey!
Yes! THey're good sight-reading material, indeed, if taken slowly.
Really? I'd say they are one league up in terms of difficulty compared to most Scarlatti sonatas.
I personally use Opus Clavicembalisticum for sight-reading practice.
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@George-K said in Scarlatti and Me:
Oh, by the way, shouldn't it be "Scarlatti and I?"
(asking for Aqua)
Depends on whether they are the subject or object which I left ambiguous
@jon-nyc said in Scarlatti and Me:
@George-K said in Scarlatti and Me:
Oh, by the way, shouldn't it be "Scarlatti and I?"
(asking for Aqua)
Depends on whether they are the subject or object which I left ambiguous
