Vocabulary - Spring, Four Seasons - p. 19 Flashcards

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Concerto

Example title

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  • a popular Baroque instrumental genre for soloist(s) and orchestra
  • generally in three movements: fast-slow-fast
  • frequenty used ritornello form
  • intended to demonstrate the virtuosig (skills) of the soloist(s)

Example: Spring, solo violin concerto

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Definition of ritornello form

Give an example of it in Four Seasons

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  • a structure (form) used in the first and third movements of the Baroque concerto
  • the opening passage (ritornello) is repeated throughout the movement

Example of it: the spring

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Definition of ripieno

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  • Italian for “full” or “complete”
  • another term is “tutti”
  • it indcates the full orchestra in the Baroque concerto
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ostinato

give an example of it in Four Seasons

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  • Italian for “obstinate” or “persistent” or “stubborn”
  • a repeated for a longer period of time
  • Example - the dog barking in the second movement of Spring
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pedal point

Name one place in Four Season where you can hear this

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  • a note, or a series of notes, held through harmony changes in other part
  • Example: the bass pedal point suggests the bagpipes in the third movement of Spring in The Four Seasons
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idiomatic writing

give an example title

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  • the style of writing to highlights the unique technical capabilities of an instrument
  • opposite of “generic”
  • developed in Barqoue

Example: Spring

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programmatic writing

example title

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  • music with descriptive element, inspried by extramusical associations, like a story, or painting
  • evolved into a significat features of the 19th-century instrumental writing (program music)

Example: Spring

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  • a popular Baroque instrumental genre for soloist(s) and orchestra
  • generally in three movements: fast-slow-fast
  • frequently used ritornello form
  • intended to demonstrate the virtuoso (skills) of the soloist(s)

Example: Spring, solo violin concerto

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Concerto

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  • a structure (form) used in the first and third movements of the Baroque concerto
  • the opening passage (ritornello) is repeated throughout the movement

Example of it: the spring

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ritornello form

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  • Italian for “full” or “complete”
  • another term is “tutti”
  • it indcates the full orchestra in the Baroque concerto
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ripieno

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  • Italian for “obstinate” or “persistent” or “stubborn”
  • a repeated for a longer period of time
  • Example - the dog barking in the second movement of Spring
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ostinato

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  • a note, or a series of notes, held through harmony changes in other part
  • Example: the bass pedal point suggests the bagpipes in the third movement of Spring in The Four Seasons
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pedal point

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  • the style of writing to highlights the unique technical capabilities of an instrument
  • opposite of “generic”
  • developed in Barqoue

Example: Spring

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idiomatic writing

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  • music with descriptive element, inspried by extramusical associations, like a story, or painting
  • evolved into a significat features of the 19th-century instrumental writing (program music)

Example: Spring

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programmatic writing

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What is the source of the inspiration or the program of The Four Seasons?

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  • Sonnets, most likely written by Vivaldi
  • portions of the text were printed above the corresponding passages in the original score
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What is the Four Seasons’s subtitle?

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The Contest Between Harmony and Inspiration (Il cimento dell’armonia e dell’invenzione)

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Why is this concerto a programmatic work?

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Because the poetic images are described by the music.