Although, in the second movement you’ll hear the goat herd starting to doze off. There’s something distinctly cheerful about this. (Performed by the Budapest Strings.) Spring Here’s a 42 minute recording (audio/video) of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons with musical notes (musical score synchronized to the music) - provided by Marcel Simader. ” Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Music Notes – The Seasons Explained Much more about the individual’s response to the danger of the forces of nature.
How do we all as a human race connect to the elemental forces around us? The spring and the autumn are much lighter more gentle. Not only is there musical thunder and lightning, there are also more birds, wet, frightened, and unhappy.”Īs Michael Francis explains: “There’s a tremendous virtuosity to it.” But above all these things – “the wonderful Soon, however, a thunderstorm breaks out. We are told that the birds welcome spring with happy song, and here they are doing exactly that. “If one were to read the poems simultaneously to hearing the music, one would find the poetic scenes synchronizing nicely with the musical imagery. In providing specific plot content for instrumental music, Vivaldi was generations ahead of his time.” At the time of their publication in Amsterdam in 1725, they were accompanied by poems describing exactly what feature of that season Vivaldi intended to capture in musical terms. “Even more notable is the fact that they have stories to tell. The Four Seasons are famous “because they are a delight to the ear”, explains Betsy Schwarm. But why The Four Seasons? Well firstly it’s a piece of music written by a brilliant composer – Antonia Vivaldi.” A 1 minute audio clip (mp3) of birds singing. They are the Sistine Chapel the Mona Lisa.
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