Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757)
Sonata in D minor, K. 32
Aria
On the RCM Level 4 list (Piano Syllabus, 2022 Edition)
Plays on a MIDI keyboard in Chrome, Edge or Firefox on a computer, or Chrome on an Android phone or tablet, or on the keys on screen without one.
Versions
Each easier version only leaves notes out and adds none, so every note in it is the piece's own. Print any of them free.
- As written334 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand312 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots232 notes
- Right-hand melody184 notes
The easy version, the melody and left-hand roots at level 3, engraved on its own page.
To practise it on paper: a practice chart for this piece, a week of steps from each hand alone to full tempo, with their speeds.
What it asks of you
- Treble clef from D4 to B5, with ledger lines
- Bass clef from D2 to E4, with ledger lines
- Key signature: 1 flat (F major or D minor)
- Accidentals: flats outside the key
- Rhythm: quarter notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, sixteenth notes, triplets
- Intervals: 2nds (steps), 4ths, octaves, 6ths, 5ths, 9ths
- Chords: triads, inverted triads
- Hands playing together, one hand moving while the other holds, moving the hand to a new position
Sections
The piece in 3 sections, cut where its music breaks, each read at its own level. Tap one to loop it on the stand until it's clean, then the next.
- Bars 1–8played twicelevel 4 of 7
- Bars 9–16played twicelevel 3 of 7
- Bars 17–24played twicelevel 4 of 7
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Score from PDMX (CC0 1.0); the composition is public domain: Domenico Scarlatti died in 1757. Credits
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