Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757)
Sonata in G, K. 63
Capriccio (L. 84)
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 written1096 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand1038 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots686 notes
- Right-hand melody566 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 B3 to B5, with ledger lines
- Bass clef from D2 to G4, with ledger lines
- Key signature: 1 sharp (G major or E minor)
- Accidentals: sharps outside the key, naturals
- Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes, notes held across the beat
- Intervals: 2nds (steps), 3rds (skips), octaves, 4ths, 5ths, 6ths
- Chords: inverted triads, triads
- Hands playing together, moving the hand to a new position, one hand moving while the other holds, hands taking turns, hands in different rhythms
Sections
The piece in 8 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 3 of 7
- Bars 9–16played twicelevel 4 of 7
- Bars 17–24played twicelevel 4 of 7
- Bars 25–32played twicelevel 5 of 7, the hardest
- Bars 33–40played twicelevel 4 of 7
- Bars 41–48played twicelevel 3 of 7
- Bars 49–56played twicelevel 4 of 7
- Bars 57–60played twicelevel 4 of 7
What stands between you and this piece
Clefsight compares the notes of this piece with what you already read.
Score typed for Clefsight from G. Ricordi & C., Milan, 1906, ed. Alessandro Longo, plate E.R. 542 (scan on IMSLP), checked note for note, shared under CC0 1.0; the composition is public domain: Domenico Scarlatti died in 1757. Credits
Checked against the edition. Typed from the scan, then compared bar by bar with another copy shared on MuseScore; the 8 bars where they differed were settled against the scan. How we check