Compared to later examples, which formal or stylistic element do most of Domenico Scarlatti's one-movement keyboard sonatas lack?

a) a clear exposition
b) a clear recapitulation
c) virtuosic runs and sequential passages
d) a clear distinction between tonic and dominant tonal areas


b

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