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For my first performance piece I performed the fourth movement from Sonata Number 8 called Allegro by Giovanni Battista Pescetti
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Performance 1 Appraisal For my first performance piece I performed the fourth movement from Sonata Number 8 called Allegro by Giovanni Battista Pescetti. Giovanni Pescetti (1704-1766) was an Italian Musician who found employment in Venice and London, mainly as a composer of operas but also as a harpsichord player. The melody in Allegro is written following a strict pattern of mainly semiquavers. It uses quavers as an introductory passage to the main phrases which are written in semiquavers. This is relative to the baroque period of which this music was written. The piece is opened with five quavers in step descending, this is then imitated by the left hand which does the same thing an octave lower. After this two bar introduction the right hand plays a bar of semiquavers, again imitated by the left hand a bar afterwards playing the same thing an octave lower. After this, the piece begins to take shape...
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