Two Scarlatti Sonatas Analysis And Accordion Playing Style

It is well known that the polyphony had been listed into the accordion playing and teaching during the Baroque period. While in all music works of this period, the sonata of Domenico Scarlatti is specially favored due to his beautiful melody, elegant and soft character and diversified themes. Moreover, most of them are homophonic texture, makes it suitable to play for accordion. Scarlatti's sonatas have been pointed to be the certificate of test program, and the competition program in the major accordion playing competition activities all over the world, and also been recorded into their CD pressings of the famous players in the world. Scarlatti's sonatas are attracting more and more attentions, and come to be the required courses to the accordion players. With years of playing experience and theory learning, the writer takes the Minor d (K·9, L413) and Minor g (K·4, L390) of Scarlatti as examples, and deeply researched his playing to seek more discussion and observation to Scarlatti's keyboard music and accordion playing style.This article consists of three parts: 1. Scarlatti's life and his sonata creation, regarding to the introduction of Scarlatti's whole life, creation background, and factors to his success, which helps us deeply understand his works. 2. The analyze of entity and research of the music structure of Scarlatti's two sonatas. Starting with the research of the entity of the two sonatas, this part analyzes microcosmic and summarizes generally the music form, melody, the texture, mode and tonality. 3. Deep research of the accordion playing style based on the analyze of the entity of the two sonatas. This part argues how to grasp Scarlatti's playing style separately from the bellows, plucking the key, ornaments, dynamics, and treble switch with playing practice.