Missa Papae Marcelli Essays

1. D. Scarlatti (1685 – 1757) Sonata in G Minor K.426 Sonata in G Major K.427 The Italian composer Domenico Scarlatti, son of equally renowned composer Allesandro, wrote 555 sonatas for keyboard (mostly for harpsichord or fortepiano) during his lifetime. The letter K. before the number of the work stands for Ralph Kirkpatrick who produced a chronological edition of the sonatas in 1953. All of Scarlatti’s sonatas are single movement works, mostly in binary form, and these two sonatas

Lockwood discusses the three famous poets – Boiardo, Ariosto and Tasso – which is used in Ferrara as inspirations when writing the Masses. Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae was one of the famous masses that was produced at this era in the Italian Renaissance – composed by Josquin De Prez, in the setting of the Ordinary of the Mass and dedicated to the Duke. Because of this, this version of the mass