Description
Provenance: from the library of the Royal Music Academy [Kungliga Musikaliska Akademiens Biblioteket] to its successor body, the Music and Theatre Library of Sweden [Musik- och teaterbiblioteket], Stockholm in 1981.
Description: manuscript copy of the Essercizi per Gravicembalo (K1-K30) published in London, 1738-9. 56 ff, 26 x 21 cms, single batch of laid paper, no watermark, pre-ruled with a 1cm rastrum, ten staves per page throughout. Pages numbered by copyist. Bound in mid-dark brown paper cover, binding in poor state of repair.
Front cover: library label in top lh corner ‘P-R / Scarlatti, D., / Essercizi… / K[ungliga]. M[usikaliska]. A[kademiens]. Title: ‘Scarlattis / XXX Sonater’. KMA library stamp bottom centre. Inside cover, top lh corner, shelf mark I3949.
Title page: top rh corner shelf mark in pencil ‘P-R’; top centre KMA library stamp; title ‘Essercizs / per / Clavicembalo / di / Don Domenico / Scarlatti / Cavaliero di S. Giacomo e Maestro / de / Serenissimi Prencipe e Prencipessa / delle / Asturie Re / Curarum Levamen’, copied from the title page of ESSERCIZI but without the laterally-inverted harpsichord and the garland.
Reverse title and facing page: blank. Pagination begins on verso to allow standard disposition on two or four facing pages throughout.
Copyist: single (amateur?) hand throughout. Very sparing use of rests and hand signs (six only in K24!). Pen trials on p 46. Occasional corrections, eg M cancelled on p 63 (K19, bar 3), but otherwise a largely faithful but rather inelegant copy of ESSERCIZI.
Comments: the title page is a transcription of the title page of ESSERCIZI but with a redundant extra plural ‘s’ and a misreading of ‘Asturie’ (see above). Like STOCKHOLM 4, this MS has very few hand signs and retains the original reading of the 6/4 bar in K24.
Contents:
| No |
Pages |
K |
No |
Pages |
K |
| Sonata I |
1–2 |
1 |
Sonata XVI |
51–54 |
16 |
| Sonata II |
3–4 |
2 |
Sonata XVII |
55–58 |
17 |
| Sonata III |
5–8 |
3 |
Sonata XVIII |
59–62 |
18 |
| Sonata IV |
9–12 |
4 |
Sonata XIX |
63–66 |
19 |
| Sonata V |
13–16 |
5 |
Sonata XX |
67–70 |
20 |
| Sonata VI |
17–20 |
6 |
Sonata XXI |
71–74 |
21 |
| Sonata VII |
21–24 |
7 |
Sonata XXII |
75–78 |
22 |
| Sonata VIII |
25–26 |
8 |
Sonata XXIII |
79–82 |
23 |
| Sonata IX |
27–28 |
9 |
Sonata XXIV |
83–86 |
24 |
| Sonata X |
29–32 |
10 |
Sonata XXV |
87–90 |
25 |
| Sonata XI |
33–34 |
11 |
Sonata XXVI |
91–94 |
26 |
| Sonata XII |
35–38 |
12 |
Sonata XXVII |
95–98 |
27 |
| Sonata XIII |
39–42 |
13 |
Sonata XXVIII |
99–102 |
28 |
| Sonata XIV |
43–46 |
14 |
Sonata XXIX |
103–106 |
29 |
| Sonata XV |
47–50 |
15 |
Sonata XXX |
107–110 |
30 |
