Music notation has changed over the years

To wit - Louis Couperin wrote this prelude for harpsichord and I wouldn't know where to begin with it:

We had a nice sunset this evening:

That's it - the weather has been warm, it hasn't rained in couple of days and I was able to finish a maple bowl today:

Edit. Here are two bowls I turned out of some ColorWood I bought a long time ago. I turned these back in 2012 and they sold, eventually.

Happy birthday Domenico Scarlatti

It is said that he wrote 555 keyboard sonatas. I have listened to only a small fraction of them, but I do like this one:

A YouTube search on Scarlatti K. 159 will produce dozens of versions. Here is a harmonic analysis of the work played on some midi something or other, perhaps by a robot.

I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that.

Interestingly enough even though Scarlatti was Neapolitan he worked in Spain and Portugal. I can hear the Spanish influence in his work.

More on Scarlatti's life.

Here are a big ol' mess of sonatas played on a harpsichord.

But speaking of 555, and I think we were, did you know that the listed height of the Washington Monument is 555 feet? Coincidence? I think not.

Sonority

Get Bach.

I like long form music.

Bananas.2

Bananas are berries.

Barry is nuts.

Barium is what doctors do with their mistakes.

Here is a chair made by my teacher:

Musa done been thrown off de plantain.

Back when I used to build harpsichords...