Vivaldi Mvmt 3 Flashcards
How long is Ritornello 1?
15 bars (bar 1-15)
How long is Episode 1?
23 bars (bar 16-39)
How long is Ritornello 2?
18 bars (bar 40-58)
How long is Episode 2?
29 bars (bar 59-88)
How long is Ritornello 3?
4 bars (bar 89-93)
How long is Episode 3?
17 bars (bar 94-111)
How long is Ritornello 4?
5 bars (bar 112-117)
How many ideas are there in Ritornello 1?
2 ideas
Describe the first idea in Ritornello 1
It’s a descending semiquaver offbeat scale followed by a broken chord quaver pattern with some passing notes. It first appears in bars 1-4.1 and is played in unison on the strings
Describe the second idea in Ritornello 1
It’s a repeating ‘chirping’ motif performed on the flute with 1st violins in 3rds and ends on a trill. It first appears in bars 4-5.2
How does Vivaldi use the 2 ideas in Ritornello 1?
Bar 1- Idea A in the strings (chord I)
Bar 4- Idea B in the flute and 1st violins (chord V)
Bar 5- Idea A (chord I)
Bar 8- Idea B but the final crochet remains on the same pitch (chord V)
Bar 9- Idea A, starts on the dominant (chord V)
Bar 11- Idea B, but the tonic stays the same pitch (chord I)
Bar 12- Idea A shortened (chord I)
Bar 14- Idea A starts with a fragment of B (chord I)
Bar 15- Cadential extension of A with a trill (chords I-IV-V with a 4-3 sus)
Describe the phrasing of Episode 1
It has balanced periods- bars (4+4) (4+4) (5+3) with only the last last bars being imbalanced
What happens in bars 16-23 of Episode 1?
The flute and violin have a duet over the continuo with the parts overlapping. They play a crochet- dotted crochet- quaver) giving the music a sarabande-like feel. It has familiar bird-like trills on the dotted crochet beat
What happens in bars 24-31 in Episode 1?
Repeated staccato quavers, a dotted quaver- semiquaver broken figuration on the tonic arpeggio and a semiquaver run happens in the first 4 bars. This is then sequenced up a tone in the next 4 bars. Underneath the melody violins ‘twitter’ in 3rds followed by a long trill
What happens harmonically in bars 24-31?
Bar 24- Chord I in D (acts as a pivot chord as V in G)
Bar 26-27- Chord V7-I in G
Bar 28-31- Chord V7-I in A
What happens in bars 32-39 in Episode 1?
The flute has a semiquaver pattern which is accompanied by violin 1 and is sequenced 4 times, creating a 5 bar phrase. There are implied harmonies in A major- I-V7-VI-V-IV and the 1st violins play 2-3 suspensions from bar 33. It moves into the same cadential progression from bar 15
What happens in Ritornello 2?
It starts with Idea A which is then sequenced down a 4th. The flute doubles violin 1 in the first 2 bars and the rests in the second 2 bars
What is the harmonic patten in bars 44-53?
I-II7-VIIb-I7-VIb-VII7-Vb-VI7-IVb-II7 (all in A except for the last chord in D)
What happens in the first 8 bars of Episode 2?
They follow a 4 bar pattern. Bars 59-60 consist of an arpeggio semiquaver figuration followed by a quaver arpeggio on the flute, accompanied by two-part quaver broken chords on violin 2 and viola. The 1st violins have a continuous trill on a dominant inverted pedal.
What happens in bars 68-78 of Episode 2?
A new two bar pattern is repeated and sequenced 5 times, with the flute having a dotted quaver-semiquaver pattern followed by a repeated ascending four-note semiquaver pattern. It’s accompanied by violins in 3rds and the continuo
What happens in bars 79-88 of Episode 2?
The flute plays an A major arpeggio with trills and semiquaver figurations. The violins repeat A major broken chords and a long tonic pedal in the bass line. The continuo is tasto solo (no chords) and it has a 4-3 suspension in bar 88
What happens in Ritornello 3?
Idea A is played inverted in the strings. The harmony is all in Bm except for the cadential bar (V-I with a 4-3 sus). There is a link bar of scurrying string semiquavers into Episode 3
What happens in Episode 3?
It takes another 4 bar idea and accompanies it with upper strings. This then repeated as a sequence ending in a written out trill on high A. Bars 108-11 are largely a repeat of bars 101-104
What are the keys used in Episode 3?
G (bar 96), A (bar 98) and D (bar 102)
What happens in Ritornello 4?
It’s a repeat of the first 3 bars of the opening of the movement with a new cadential figure. It all comes to a rest on a unison D
