Summer brings the “heat of the burning sun,” matched by wilting musical figures. The finale introduces nymphs and shepherds dancing to bagpipes, a sound evoked in the droning accompaniments. The docile slow movement depicts a goatherd napping in a meadow, with the violas assigned the part of his barking dog. The sonnets offered Vivaldi ample opportunities for word painting, as in the “birds in joyous song” in the first movement of Spring, represented by trilling violin motives, countered later by thunder and lightning. These interrelated works that we know simply as The Four Seasons live on as the crown jewels within Vivaldi’s incomparable catalog of solo concertos. Vivaldi named the first four concertos after the seasons, and he organized the musical ideas to correspond to descriptive sonnets. In 1725, Vivaldi’s publisher in Amsterdam released a set of twelve violin concertos under the title Il cimento dell’armonia e dell’invenzione ( The Contest Between Harmony and Invention). He taught violin and directed an orchestra for the “orphaned” girls there, who were actually the illegitimate offspring of Venice’s upper crust - which explains why their school was endowed with such excellent music instruction.
#PLAY VIVALDI TRIAL#
It is not a seamless transformation, but a simulation of the uncertainty and trial and error we continue to face in finding our footing in 2021.Īntonio Vivaldi composed at least 230 violin concertos, many of them originating at the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice. Musically, the opening theme becomes frozen into incessant patterns, painfully interrupted, and gradually replaced with something completely different something calmer. Layoffs, furloughs, remote work and school disrupted these routines and forced people to disassemble, and then reconsider and rebuild, sometimes while making drastic changes. The opening section can be heard as a musical depiction of the propulsive, routine momentum of business, work, school and commuting. These lines are goal-oriented and unrelenting. Disassemblage begins with driving, insistent, directional phrases. On a more poetic and personal level, the piece is a reflection on 2020's disruption of expected trajectories in life and work. In this piece, the thing being taken apart is the opening theme. Disassemblage means the action or process of taking something apart.
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