TY - BOOK ID - 80816350 TI - The keyboard sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti and eighteenth-century music style PY - 2003 SN - 9780511481857 9780521481403 9780521071222 0511481853 0511065515 9780511065514 051106764X 9780511067648 0521481406 1280414677 9781280414671 9786610414673 661041467X 9780511206290 0511206291 0521481406 0521071224 1107126681 0511170386 0511297467 PB - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - 78.21.1 Scarlatti KW - Sonatas (Harpsichord) KW - Music KW - Style, Musical. KW - Musical style KW - Analysis, appreciation. KW - History and criticism. KW - Philosophy and aesthetics KW - Scarlatti, Domenico, KW - Scarlatti, Domenico KW - Analysis, appreciation KW - 18th century KW - History and criticism KW - 1685-1757. Sonatas, harpsichord UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80816350 AB - W. Dean Sutcliffe investigates one of the greatest yet least understood repertories of Western keyboard music: the 555 keyboard sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti. Scarlatti occupies a position of solitary splendour in musical history. The sources of his style are often obscure and his immediate influence is difficult to discern. Further, the lack of hard documentary evidence has hindered musicological activity. Dr Sutcliffe offers not just a thorough reconsideration of the historical factors that have contributed to Scarlatti's position, but also sustained engagement with the music, offering both individual readings and broader commentary of an unprecedented kind. A principal task of this book is to remove the composer from his critical ghetto (however honourable) and redefine his image. In so doing it will reflect on the historiographical difficulties involved in understanding eighteenth-century musical style. ER -