![]() 8, The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni), transports listeners through the turning of the year. Unlike modern violins, which have metal strings, the violins (and indeed, the violas, cellos and double basses) in Vivaldi’s day had strings made of animal gut, giving the instruments a gentler, more mellow sound. Published in 1725 as part of Vivaldi’s Op.He also introduced some striking musical effects in the orchestral writing for example, he sometimes has all the orchestral instruments playing the same tune, in unison you can hear this effect in the ‘storm’ music in the first movement of Spring, and at the beginning of the third movement of Summer. With his concertos, Vivaldi set new standards for virtuosity, requiring soloists to play faster and more difficult music than ever before.Before Vivaldi, the solo line in a concerto was more like a musical decoration in Vivaldi’s concertos, the contast between full orchestra and solo instrument becomes the key element in the structure of the whole piece, with the orchestra acting as a musical refrain or chorus (the ‘ritornello’) which alternates with a series of contrasting verses featuring the soloist.However, the Four Seasons was written during a four term in Mantua, c 1717 to 1721, and it is likely to have been played by a predominantly male orchestra. The most common pattern for concertos was to begin and end with fast, upbeat movements, and have a slower, more poetic movement in between. The more talented joined an orchestra under Vivaldis leadership, So it is true that much of Vivaldi’s music was first played by ladies. ![]() ![]() ![]() Concertos typically have three ‘movements’: self-contained sections, each characterised by a particular tempo or mood.Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons are early examples of the concerto form: a musical structure designed to show off the virtuosity of the solo instrument, which in this case is the violin. ![]()
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