Antonio Vivaldi Research Paper

Vivaldi grew up in a Catholic family. His father was a talented violinist and would be his first teacher. This allowed them to perform together. He also took lessons from a choral teacher who knew violin. Vivaldi loves speed. At age 15, he began studying for the priesthood, which gave him 10 years to study and develop the musical and composing talents that is displayed in his works. Vivaldi spent his entire life, other than the last six or so years, with his father. As a child, they toured Venice together. Then, later on as a man, he toured Italy and later Europe. Vivaldi and his father were a pair and it seems that they held a good relationship. His father helped to write out some of the pieces that Vivaldi would think of. He preferred a combination of the choral religious music, dramatic-operatic, and classics of Italy. His most influential works were written for the orchestra of a Venetian girls’ orphanage where he was music director. It was for them that he wrote his famous concertos. Vivaldi also invented the concerto-grosso.

Antonio Vivaldi is a famous Italian baroque composer, known by most Suzuki violin students who study his concertos or by audiences everywhere who have heard and love his composition of the Four Seasons.  Having grown up as students of the Suzuki Violin Method, we recognize this composer and have experience performing his pieces.  In addition to his many concertos written for solo violin, Vivaldi composed many concertos intended to be performed by two solo violins, accompanied by a small orchestra.  Because we are both violinists, we chose to analyze the second movement of Vivaldi’s Concerto for Two Violins in A minor, RV 522, included in his L’Estro Armonico works.

In the 17th century Venice was the capital of art and music, tourists from all over Europe came to enjoy the arts and music. There were four schools of music in Venice, beginning as “orphanages” or Ospedali. The Ospedali was for orphaned, unwanted or illegitimate children-many were from children of noblemen and their mistresses;

I selected Antonio Vivaldi as from the list of composers due to his vast influence in the development of music, including current popular styles such as the double violin concertos and ritornellos, and his influence on future composers such as Bach. Vivaldi’s significance to the music world is further emphasized by the introduction and popularization of concepts such as his usage of rhythm to create escalating tension and the application of motivic elements as themes for his pieces. Vivaldi’s life was set out to pursue priesthood from a young age yet, ironically, an illness allowed him to follow his true passion as both a violinist and composer. Antonio Vivaldi remained pious throughout his life and it was his particular education as a priest

Ludwig van Beethoven was one of the greatest composers and a musical genius. Beethoven was born on December 16, 1770 in Bonn, Germany and died on March 26, 1827 in Vienna, Austria. Beethoven came from a family of musicians just like many other great composers before him had. At the age of only 11 Beethoven began serving as an assistant to the court organist and had several published piano compositions at the age of 12. At the age of 18, he became the legal guardian of both of his younger brothers, after the death of his mother and dismissal of his father from the court choir because of alcoholism. By this team Beethoven was also a court organist, violinist and responsible for composing and performing.

The composer that I chose is Charles Ives, an American modernist and musical composer from the 20th century born on October 20, 1874 in a small town of Danbury, CT and died on May 19, 1954 in New York City, NY. Charles Ives was one of the first American composers international renown and had a unique voice in American music. Which today he’s known for his amazing original orchestral music and as an American composer and Musician.

Whistling Vivaldi by Claude M. Steele was a very eye opening book to read. I never realized before reading this book how big of an impact stereotype threat can have on people. I obviously knew of stereotyping, and all the different types of stereotyping there are, but I didn't realize how much of an impact it could have on education. When I think of stereotypes, I usually think of stereotyping different races, but this book brought to my attention that stereotyping can be towards gender, minorities in different situations, and many many more. After reading this book, I feel like it made me more conscious of what I say to people and the way I think of them. Also, it made me really open my eyes and made me aware for when I become a teacher and the way I portray others, and how it can effect them academically.

On 17 December 1770, Ludwig van Beethoven was born. He was an amazing and great classical musical composer. He is known for being the most famous composer of the classical and romantic periods of music. According to the “Enjoyment of Music” manual, Beethoven was born in Bohn, Germany. His father, with his grandfather, was the two singers at the court of a local prince, Friedrich Max. (Forney and Machlis 197).

Composer of Per La Gloria D’Adorarvi, Giovanni Battista Bononcini(1672-1748) was born into a family of composers. Both his father and brother were composers. Although he was orphaned at age 8, he still followed in his fathers footsteps, releasing instrumental music by age 15. Throughout his life, he moved around to many different European countries, but he was born and died in Italy. This shows through in his Italian baroque style, which he helped spread around Europe in his travels.

The first work that I will be analyzing is Vivaldi’s Spring from the Four Seasons of the Baroque period. To begin, I will give a brief background of the composer. Vivaldi was born in 1678 in Venice, Italy. His father was a professional violinist, and taught him to play as a child. Though he was a talented musician, Vivaldi got ordained as a priest, though health complications prevented him from executing most duties, like performing masses. Soon after he terminated his priestly duties, he was employed as master violinist at an institution for orphans where he taught girls to play music. He later moved to Vienna, Austria in hopes of obtaining a job as a composer for the imperial court, but after Charles VI died, he lost his income and royal protection, and soon after died impoverished in 1741. In his lifetime, Vivaldi created hundreds of works and was a highly influential composer of the Baroque period. His influence was widespread throughout Europe.

The composer I chose as Orlande de Lassus. Lassus was a renasiance composer. He started composer towards the middle of 1500s but did not stop until the late 1500s.

Music during the Baroque era was regarded as a powerful form of communication that could invoke any emotion in the audience members. This philosophical belief was derived from a revival of the ideas of the Greco-Roman culture. As a result of these ideas, composers believed that they could also affect their listeners through the power of melody, harmony, rhythm, and stylistic details. The emphasis on communication was reflected in the major styles and components that were used throughout Baroque compositions. Baroque music is characterized by the composers’ attention to detail, such as contrast in dynamics, ornamentation, and the emphasis on bass line. These characteristics of the Baroque era of music are reflected in Antonio Vivaldi’s compositions. Known as one of the most popular pieces in Baroque repertoire, Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons reveals how composers of the Baroque period used different techniques, such as ritornello and contrast, to invoke emotion through the powerful communication of music. The Four Seasons perfectly represents the Baroque period because of Vivaldi 's style, techniques, and theme.

A universal force that everyone can connect with, the best addiction a human could have, the only force that can hit you and cause no pain, an expression of feelings that cannot be explained are all ways I describe music. Life is so driven by music that a heartbeat, the main thing that determines life, has its own rhythmic tempo. It can unite, ignite, console, and control. When considering the power of music, you should keep Beethoven in mind. Ludwig van Beethoven was a classical pianist who was deaf, but managed to compose some of his most renowned work by removing the legs from his piano and sitting on the floor so he could feel the vibrations. Years later, a technique was created from this to allow the deaf to feel music. That alone displays

In the 1700s, Antonio Vivaldi composed his highly accredited Four Seasons concerto. The autumn movement in this concerto follows the allegro-adagio-allegro pattern. Vivaldi provided sonnets to go along with each movement to explain what the true meanings are. As a group, we felt it was necessary to provide all of our reactions to the piece. This allowed us to interpret what each of the others were visualizing throughout the composition. Some of our opinions may have varied, but overall the general mood of the piece allowed us each to have the same emotions toward the Autumn movement of the Four Seasons.

Antonio Vivaldi was born on March 4, 1678 in the town of Venice, Italy. His father was quite the musician and helped his son master the violin and also helped him get find lessons from some the best composers in Italy. Sadly, do to his symptoms that were similar to asthma often causing him to have severe shortness of breath he was unable to master several instruments. At one point in his early life he even became a priest but this was short lived do to his continuing health issues therefore he had to give up his priesthood. “At the age of 25, Antonio Vivaldi was named master of violin at the Ospedale della Pietà (Devout Hospital of Mercy) in Venice” (). This is where he spent in upwards of thirty years teaching his students and only having