Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti : A Guide to Research

This up-to-date guide includes an annotated bibliography which identifies and discusses selected articles, books, and dissertations about the composers' lives and works. The guide focuses on recent studies and major review articles which discuss them and points to areas that still have to be investigated. It also includes extensive lists of modern editions, published and unpublished, as well as discographies of recordings that have current and historical interest. Some of the discussions in the guide examine the Scarlattis' relationships to other composers, the cultural milieu in which each worked, questions of performance practice, and other research problems.