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Note 67 — OSCAR BIE (continued 2)

E. E. (Ernest Edward) Kellett translation

The “first” and “second” subjects are often very clearly distinct in the binary form of Scarlatti. The “second subject” is not a mere continuation of the “first” in the subordinate key, as more generally it is in J. S. Bach, but it is another melody altogether.

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