Re: Scarletti too monophonic? What about Gibbons?

[Neil Tingley <neil@music.demon.co.uk>]

In message <199608240620.AA07268@lafn.org>, Eugene Selig
<aq094@lafn.org> writes
>Neil Tingley suggests that GG rejected Scarlatti because the music wasn't 
>countrapuntal. 

Well I wondered aloud ? Its ages since I've heard any Scarlatti and I
couldn't remember if it was contrapuntal !

>Actually, S. employed imitative writing (one hand 
>repeating the line of the other hand, but lagging it by a few beats or 
>bars), and there are even some sonatas in actual fugual style. GG would 
>have treated any of the 550 pieces by S. as though they were 
>contrapuntal, i.e., bringing out "voices" even when they did not exist 
>thematically

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