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Hello @Quinn St. Mark! I am no expert either but having watched the above Saltarello video that @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu posted, it makes me think that maybe the Saltarello is a dance that is not as fast and driven and intense as a Tarantella might be? Although it does also speed up. That's just my uneducated observation. But then there's also the concern that if your piece were played by a pianist it would probably be performed at a slightly slower tempo to make it feasible. It's a very engaging piece so far though! Also to 2nd what @Thatguy v2.0 said about returning to the quarter note accompaniment somewhere in the piece - I think you could have done that right before bar 15 when you bring back the melody in octaves. Giving the piece some breathing room by bringing back the C minor triads in quarter notes right before that might better punctuate the phrases in the piece. Although you might also not want to do that if you want to keep the breakneck pace of exposition of ideas that you have going. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for your feedback! Yes, one problem of my renditions is that they simply reflect the score (except for the added basso continuo realization), but a baroque score leaves plenty of room for the musicians to add ornaments, articulations, etc.. So no musician would play it like it sounds in the mp3. But I will try to improve the score that the audio file is based on for a more realistic feel.