Domenico Scarlatti

Sonate En Mi Mineur K.380

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This Sonata, justly famous, is of binary cut with two sections with repeats. First section in E major, ending in the dominant key, B major. The second section opens with thematic material taken from the first, varying and developing it, modulating to the extreme, ending in the initial key of E major and concluding identically to the first part.
The atmosphere of this Sonata is special, and we have heard and even seen a staging of an entire procession. Three quarter notes, sounding like the strokes of a conductor's baton, pompously punctuate this little ceremony, empty fifths, repeated notes, the omnipresent dactyl, all seem to have escaped from a royal banda.