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: Hi Stephen! It's the nature of playing that by : now you've already past mastered this sonata and : moved on, but I take at least a little credit for : getting you re-interested in it. I haven't quite : got it down, but I'm back for a single day's last : rest before the final trip into the mountains this : summer and what better way is there to express : yearning than to play this piece? : It's no wonder that Brahms copied pages out of : this sonata to study Scarlatti's technique. A : teacher of traditional theory would demand changes : and the more I listen to Scarlatti's vocal works : (well, OK, for now the mes and motets), the : more I realize how dead-on he was in the stile : antico counterpoint where the parallel octaves are : strictly forbidden. But the changes that one : would have to make to accomodate such music theory : would transform this work into a piece that : Pachelbel would write! : Yeah, there's this mystery, maybe the same or a : related mystery to Beethoven Moonlight sonata I or : as I suggested in a long ago post, the start of : the third movement of the Waldstein. How do these : guys do it, and with such transparently simple : means? : Anyone can cop to this, of course, but I'm sending : what is almost a one-to-one email because I'm : having doubts about whether Forum Frigate : Scarlatti still works, and I know that as a : subscriber you will get this posting if it does. : I've got a bunch of new hardware and when setting : up accounts, I couldn't access this page. So I : hope you or anyone else will respond with a line : or two as a test. : And getting anyone to think about K 27 is good! : --Arnold

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