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Translations into English of "Rompe Sprezza" - Scarlatti's

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Timbo in Oz

aria on the words which might have no known author.

Is there a translation?

Searching so far unsuccessful.

Have now listened to it quite a few times, during yr 12 music exams I hve supervised.

TIA

Warmest

Tim Bailey

Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger

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It's by Alessandro. - Timbo in Oz 18:03:51 03/19/15 (0)
I love the piece, despite having now heard it again yesterday.

The school used last years NSWales State YR12/HSC exam, for the trial exam for this year's Yr12 music students.

It is a very florid piece and the woman is a manipulative flirt or worse, I believe.

Warmest

Tim Bailey

Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
RE: Translations into English of "Rompe Sprezza" - Scarlatti's - Chris from Lafayette 14:01:15 03/19/15 (0)
Hmm. . . would that be Domenico or Alessandro? Sounds pretty esoteric to me, and I'm afraid I can't help.

A couple of months ago, we had a Baroque Festival/Competition in an adjoining town (Orinda), and a couple of kids played sonatas by "D. Scarlatti" (as listed in the program). So to pass the time between performances, the MC guy would ask questions to the kids while the judges were writing their comments. (And if they answered correctly, he would give them a wrapped piece of candy!) One question he asked was, "The program says 'D. Scarlatti'. What does the 'D' stand for?" One kid raised his hand and answered, "Dario?". For some reason, the idea that there would be a composer named Dario Scarlatti just struck me as funny!

Also, I know what you mean about hearing the same music over and over (or at least many times) while judging or supervising competitions and exams. Pianist Nathan Schwartz told me one time that he had to judge a competition where the REQUIRED work was the Anton Rubinstein Piano Concerto No. 4. He said that after he'd heard about 20 performances in a row of this work, he NEVER wanted to hear it again! ;-)

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