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Solo Keyboard Works
- Created for a smaller, recital feel concert for the wealthy
- Sonata the big development of the time
- Sonata a piece and also a form for larger works
- Scarlatti wrote a lot in simple binary form
- Larger scale piece unity with more harmonic experimentation
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcsRl_LIJHA
Solo Keyboard Works
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- Intro
- Another Lesson NOT on the Voice!
- Big Developments in Europe: Money, Courts, Entertainment
- Flourish of Activity in Europe
- Increased Trade Meant a Cultural Influence
- Money Spent on Music Led to More Music
- There Wasn't a New Opera Everyday
- Concertos were Blooming, but Not Full Concerts
- More Intimate Setting for a Soloist led to Solo Keyboard Works
- Ready Stop…It's Sonata Time!
- Why Do Most People Recognize the Term 'Sonata?'
- Sonata is the Most Important Form Development in the History of Western Classical Music
- Sonata is Both a Genre and a Form
- Sonata Movement of a Symphony
- Sonatas
- Different Times
- Sonata de Camera: Suite of Dances for Two Players and Continuo Performed in Private Concerts
- Corelli
- Sonata de Chiesa: Collection of Dances in Four Movement Form Used to Fill Space Between Mass Movements
- Solo Sonata: Instrumental Piece in Several Movements Designed for a Soloist
- Solo Sonata
- Imitative Piece in Sections
- Changes in Meter and Tempo
- Recapitulatory Endings: Summary
- Example of Solo Keyboard Sonata: Domenico Scarlatti
- Binary Form
- Ternary Form
- Rounded Binary
- YouTube Example of Binary Form
- Why is This Important?
- Meant a Tight-Knit Structural Form
- Presented an Open-Ended Tight-Knit Form
- Composer Freedom
- Manipulate Musical Parameters, Most Notably Harmony
- Large Scale Musical Unity
- Sonata Diagram Time!
- Review





























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