Description: A manuscript collection of fourteen keyboard sonatas, of which six are known works by Scarlatti with notable variants. The remaining three anonymous sonatas were attributed to Scarlatti by Anglès 1948Anglès, Higinio. 1948. ‘El archivo musical de la catedral de Valladolid’. Anuario musical 3: pp. 59–108. and Antonio Baciero. The latter also edited and published them in Baciero 1978Baciero, Antonio, ed. 1978. ‘“Valladolid Sonatas” nos. 1–3’. In Nueva biblioteca española de música de teclado, vol. 3. Union Musical Española, 37-50..
Titles: None of the works in this collection are actually attributed to Scarlatti, and all sonatas are untitled.
Copyist: A single (presumably Spanish) copyist was responsible for all of the Scarlatti sonatas.
Comments: None of the sonatas has a tempo marking.
Date: According to Yáñez Navarro 2015Yáñez Navarro, Celestino. 2015. ‘Nuevas aportaciones para el estudio de las sonatas de Domenico Scarlatti: los manuscritos del Archivo de Música de las catedrales de Zaragoza’. PhD dissertation, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. this collection was compiled in the eighteenth century.
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