Note: This is Parisotti’s well known arrangement.For more stylistically correct versions of most of these common Italian songs and arias, consider purchasing 26 Italian Songs and Arias, edited by John Glenn Paton, which is available in Medium High and Medium Low editions that each come with an accompaniment CD. The 6/8 setting gives the song a flowing feel, almost as if you’re being rowed through the canals of Venice by a gondolier. Il genio di Mitilde, H.314 (Scarlatti, Alessandro) Già di trionfi onusto, H.297 (Scarlatti, Alessandro) Già lalba luminosa (Scarlatti, Alessandro) Già sul carro dorato, H. O cessate di piagarmi Music: Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725) Words: Nicola Minato (1627-1698) O cessate di piagarmi is from the opera entitled Pompeo (1683).This aira is a lovely lament in a 6/8 time signature. The pieces in that collection were sometimes set with less than historically accurate accompaniments. Fugue in F minor (Scarlatti, Alessandro) Il fulgido splendor dun ciglio arciero, H.313 (Scarlatti, Alessandro) G. Important note: This Baroque Italian aria is perhaps best known as it appears in Schirmer’s Twenty-Four Italian Songs and Arias, most of which had appeared previously in the Anthology of Italian Song of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. My pieces (are not finished): First Song (this ones from kindergarten) Short Piano Works Collection (Chorded Songs) Little Piece 1.