Musicon / Scarlatti / Scarlatti Sonatas – Frequently full of grace
Of Scarlatti’s music the pieces most familiar are a Capriccio and Pastorale which Tausig rewrote for the piano. They were called sonatas by their composer, but are not sonatas in the modern sense. Sonata means “sound-piece,” and when the term came into music it signified only ::More
Musicon / Musical education / Structure of a Symphony
The symphony, as a rule, is a composition for orchestra made up of four parts, or movements, which are not only related to each other by a bond of sympathy established by the keys chosen but also by their emotional contents. Without this higher bond the unity of the work would be merely ::More
Musicon / Musical education / Sonata – Concerto – Symphony
Symphonies, symphonic poems, concertos for solo instruments and orchestra, as well as the various forms of chamber music, such as trios, quartets, and quintets for strings, or pianoforte and strings, are but different expressions of the idea which is best summed up in the word sonata. What ::More
