Adagio e cantabile

Italian composer

Definition

Slow and in a singing style; Scarlatti's own marking for the Sonata K. 208 in A major, one of his most expressive slow movements.

Interpretive Guidance

Shape the long melodic phrases as a singer would, with gentle rise and fall of dynamic. This is one of Scarlatti's rare deeply lyrical markings — resist the urge to rush toward the cadences.

Context

Scope Used by Domenico Scarlatti
Language Italian

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