Texting Scarlatti

Abstract

‘Texting Scarlatti: Composition, Reception, Performance’ is a two-year research project funded by the Leverhulme Trust (reference number RPG-2022-338), with additional support from the Research England Participatory Research Fund. Although the project is based at the Guildhall School in London, the project team is multi-disciplinary and international: Luisa Morales (Festival Internacional de Música de Tecla Española, Spain), Marco Moiraghi (Italy), Jérémie Lumbroso (USA), Jasper van der Klis (Netherlands) and Barry Ife (UK). A further substantial group of up to fifty volunteer ‘citizen scientists’ is assisting our work. The project is undertaking the first comprehensive and systematic study of all surviving eighteenth-century manuscript and printed copies of Scarlatti’s keyboard sonatas. The words ‘comprehensive’ and ‘systematic’ are crucial to the project’s ambitions in terms of scope and methodology: