D.Scarlatti, Keyboard Sonata K.141 (L.422) "Toccata" (Martha Argerich)

Описание: D.Scarlatti's Keyboard Sonata K.141 (L.422), with a theme-and-structure analysis and synchronized sheet music (score)
Performance: Martha Argerich (piano), 2009/07, Verbier Festival, Switzerland (Live Recording)
Analysis, Score Editing, Synch: ScoreMan

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00:48 A
01:38 B
02:20 B


OVERVIEW

Domenico Scarlatti’s K.141 is a single-movement keyboard sonata (often labelled a toccata because of its mercurial, virtuosic character) in D minor.
It’s compact, highly kinetic, and built from a few aggressive motivic cells — most conspicuously the incessant rapid repeated notes — that create an urgent, driving texture throughout.

HISTORICAL CONTEXT

Scarlatti (1685–1757) wrote over 550 keyboard sonatas during his career; many were composed while he was in the service of the Iberian courts (notably in Lisbon and Madrid), and his sonatas often show Iberian (Spanish/Portuguese) stylistic influences.

Genre & instrument: These sonatas were written for the harpsichord (later played on fortepiano/piano). They are usually short, single-movement pieces — not sonata-form works in the Classical sense, but self-contained binary-form movements that function as character pieces or studies as well as concert showpieces.

MUSICAL SIGNIFICANCE

K.141 exemplifies Scarlatti’s technical innovations for the keyboard: extended repeated-note figurations, hand-crossing effects, jagged syncopations and guitar-like figuration that imitate Iberian stringed instruments.
These make the piece both technically demanding and idiomatically “Spanish.”
Because of the mercurial repeated figures and percussive writing, performers and commentators often label it a toccata as well as a sonata.

Scarlatti’s compact, colorful sonatas were influential in expanding keyboard technique and in anticipating some later keyboard textures (percussive articulation, hand-crossing, idiomatic effects) that would reappear in Classical and Romantic keyboard music. K.141 is one of the pieces often cited when discussing Scarlatti’s more showy, elemental writing.



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