Messa di Santa Cecilia

Scarlatti's writing from the Kyrie is lively on the strings, close to Vivaldi and the Bolognese; the choir's interventions alternate or overlap with the singing decorated with soloists.

[3] The composer ends the Gloria with its complex structure, with an impressive five-part fugue on Cum Sancto Spirito, the subject of which is provided by the Gregorian intonation of the Mass to Saint-Cecilia, Dilecisti.

[3] The Credo, which in its style looks more to the future, is close to the writing of his own Stabat Mater, but more to that of Pergolesi seventeen years later.

The joyful precipitation of the Et resurenxit which "intensifies to the tumult", contrasts with the sudden stop on et mortuo in a striking effect.

vespers, discovered more recently, both scores being intended for the Santa Cecilia in Trastevere church.