Author: Kirkpatrick, Ralph
Title: Domenico Scarlatti
Description: Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1953. Hardcover. Black cloth boards, bw illustrated title page; xix, 473 pp; bw illustrations; 1 folded genealogical table. Contents: The fledgling -- The young eagle -- Roman patrimony -- Church and theater -- Lisbon patriarchy -- The Spanish scene -- The reign of the Melomanes -- Royal sonatas -- Scarlatti's harpsichord -- Scarlatti's harmony -- The anatomy of the Scarlatti sonata -- The performance of the Scarlatti sonatas. Includes appendices: The Scarlatti family; Documents, chronologically arranged, concerning Domenico Scarlatti and his offspring; Documents concerning instruments; Ornamentation in Scarlatti; Keyboard works; Vocal music; Miscellaneous, doubtful, and spurious works; Catalogue of sonatas and table of principal sources in approximately chronological order; Table of sonatas in the order of Longo's edition. Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-439) and index. Good (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block. Heavy wear to boards and block, black marker to block. Age toning to pages but text and illustrations are otherwise clean.) .

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