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Vivaldi

Vivaldi. Spring. ･The program derives from an Italian sonnet about spring. ･The work describes the specific images from the poem (birds, brooks, storm).･ The movement is unified by a recurring ritornello (representing "Spring"). Two kinds of concertos: solo concerto grosso.

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Vivaldi

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  1. Vivaldi Spring

  2. ･The program derives from an Italian sonnet about spring. • ･The work describes the specific images from the poem (birds, brooks, storm).･ • The movement is unified by a recurring ritornello (representing "Spring").

  3. Two kinds of concertos:soloconcerto grosso

  4. Spring is here and with it happiness.
 • Birds welcome it with joyful singing
 • And streams, stoked by gentle breezes,
 • Flow with a sweet murmur.

 • The sky is covered with dark clouds
 • And lightning and thunder are heard.
 • But when the storm has gone, the birds
 • Return to fill the air with their singing.
 • --From the sonnet for Vivaldi's "Spring"

  5. A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King. Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), No. 1333

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