Among Scarlatti's sonatas, many works exhibit a Spanish or Portuguese folkloric character, and this piece is no exception. For Scarlatti, who spent more than half of his life in Lisbon and Madrid, it is readily conceivable that he naturally encountered the local music of those regions.

Frequent interplay between the left and right hands is extensively utilized. In addition to the powerful sonorities of thirds and sixths employed throughout the entire piece, virtuosic writing, such as alternating sixteenth notes between hands and rapid scales, is also prominent. Concurrently, the harmonic palette of the work is enriched by elements such as the false relation in measure 14 and the diminished intervals appearing in the inner voices, for instance, in measure 23.