Critical Appreciation Of Vivaldi

The concert was very good overall. I am not interested in the classical music concert, but this concert made me thing different towards the classical concerts. Also I learned about the instrument called organ, very interesting instrument. I strongly recommend going to the organ concert. Especially if Dr. Carol Williams and Martha Jane Weaver are starring, you should definitely attend. No regret

The music played throughout all of the concerts adhered to be diverse. The instruments, the individuals performing, and the conductor all proved to be outstanding. The concerts proved to be interesting as I witnessed them, first hand.

Throughout history, there have been many periods of time where music rose and fell in favor of the masses. Music was part of life during the old age in many areas such as religious services or entertainment among the elites. During the late 17th century which was known as the Baroque period, many famous composers such as Johann Pachelbel, George Frideric Handel, and Johann Sebastian Bach, Alessandro Scarlatti, Henry Purcell, and many others that were successful in adapting to the change of new music style. Among these famous composers, Antonio Vivaldi stood out for his unique style of music that innovated and revolutionized the Baroque period.

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;

Overall I actually enjoyed the piece more than I thought I would. It had a nice tempo that allowed listeners to be engaged and even when the volume dropped the violins played a softer texture as if they were inviting you to listen closer and pay more attention. Generally, the theme was also joyful which I took notice of and enjoyed. Lastly, I didn’t notice any musical mistakes, and thought the piece was well played.

The piece was very upbeat and well fast pace. As for Criantemi was opposite of the other piece. The emotion can off as sad. The tempo was slow and through the piece each section with crescendo and decrescendo throughout the piece as well. Make the piece sadder but yet suspenseful. It was differently song compared to the other ones on the program. This one really stuck out. The other piece they had play was “Capriol Suite composed by Peter Warlock” this one I think the as a whole band there time was very good in this piece. For the orchestra I think was the one piece where I could hear the each section of the orchestra. I was a piece that complimented each and every player in that recital that day. This piece was always a very calm piece, a lot more piano than forte. When they did forte in the piece the transition was

The difficulty of his breathing increased, less air came in with every breath, tightness filled his chest and lungs - this had to end. Antonio Vivaldi, known as “The Red Priest,” due to his hair color, attempted to give mass, but his bronchial asthma restricted him from doing his job well (Heller). He lost his ability to preach when the pain proved too much. So he returned to his first love: music. Antonio Vivaldi’s father, a barber-turned-professional-violinist in Venice, taught him to play the violin at a very young age. At ten years old, Vivaldi became his father’s substitute at St. Mark’s Orchestra (Getzinger). Thus, at an early age, he showed extraordinary promise. Years later, that promise came to fruition as he revolutionized Baroque music. Because Antonio Vivaldi’s compositions added warmth and a rhythmically textured sound to a rather ornamental Baroque style, his musical approach appealed to listeners and changed how everyone viewed concertos. His revolutionary style influenced other musicians and European society from his first composition in 1690 to his death in 1741. More than two centuries later, his music, best represented by The Four Seasons, continues to have an impact. When Vivaldi lost his ability to preach, he found a new but familiar voice through the violin and became the Baroque period’s most influential composer, changing the way Europeans, and even other composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach, approached music.

Ms. Deutsch’s performance “Summer” from The Four Seasons was outstanding. This concerto was written by Antonio Vivaldi in 1723, during the Baroque era, and it belongs to the genre of classical music. Being a Baroque style concerto, this piece is broken up into three movements. These movements typically follow the pattern: fast, slow, and then fast again. Sticking to this pattern, the best tempo indication for each movement, I believe, would be as follows: allegro, adagio, and then presto. In addition, movements one and three are in ritornello form. With the first movement being in allegro form we get the feeling of cheerfulness and liveliness that is associated with the season of summer. There is a specific theme played at the beginning of this movement which returns periodically, giving the audience something to remember and expect. Being in adagio form, the second movement slows down quite a bit, and the violin has

“Overwhelmingly beautiful” is the description I would give to this enjoyable concert. When this team of professionals, which includes a pianist, conductor and orchestra performed together, all three were fully engaged in making the whole concert elegant. Even without professional music appreciation knowledge, I still find Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, K. 503 embodies all that is elegant about Mozart's sublime concerti and delivers very articulate understanding of Mozart’s spirit in music. The impersonal imagination and artistic delight brought by music is the most precious legacy left for us by the great musicians like Mozart.

Antonio Vivaldi was the artist of my choice because I am actually more familiar with his music rather than the other artist listed. I chose Vivaldi because I am a fan of the string instruments because of the beautiful and graceful sound of the string instruments. Vivaldi specialized in string instruments so I had to choose his music. Another reason I chose to write about Vivaldi is because of his confident personality. He knew that he will produce an outstanding piece of music and in a short amount of time.

The following program was chosen to provide a wide variety of trumpet literature ranging from major masterworks as well as transcriptions that translate well to the trumpet. A historical timeline was also considered when selecting the following pieces. One of the objectives of this program was to display a linear progression starting with the Baroque era that show how art music evolve up until the 21th century. It also displays how the physical and musical demand change for the trumpet over a long period of time.

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.

As the ground started to shake and church bells began to ring all over the city of Venice, a sickly red headed baby boy was born to Camilla and Giovanni Vivaldi. Antonio Vivaldi was delivered at home by a mid-wife on March 4, 1678, in the middle of an earthquake. Little Antonio struggled to breathe and was not expected to live. Asking God to spare her son, Camilla vowed that Antonio would grow up to be a priest. Had Vivaldi died that day, the world would have missed out on one of the life’s greatest composers. Antonio Vivaldi loved music as a child, worked as a music teacher, and composed many wonderful works of baroque music.

Each movement is prefaced by Italian sonnet, describing the joys of each season. Vivaldi brings me to the natural world of the year by music. Before the performance of each movement, Cunningham invited a guest to read the poem of that season to help audience have a general idea of the feeling and the picture that would bring by the performance. It would be better if the guest could read poems with more emotions. The flat sound cannot reflect the happy spring, the lethargic summer, the harvest autumn, or the frozen winter. Change in pitch and speed when reading poems would help show more emotions. There is some debate about the author of sonnet, and some people think Vivaldi wrote it (Gengaro, 2012). Also, whether the four concerto were written for four seasons or vice versa is still debatable (Everett,