The Four Seasons Analysis

I am going to perform Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden. in this poem Hayden explains how hard a speaker’s father worked. The term “blue-black cold” depicts the very early cold morning when the sky is between black and blue. It illustrates how early the father wakes up. He wakes up before sunrise which really had with a person who is tired to do that. Although it was difficult for him to wake up this early, he does it anyway to provide for his family. He doesn’t get enough sleep, but he is such a hard worker that the reader is able to grasp his hard work with the description “cracked hands that ached.” His cracked hands that ached further highlights his sacrifice. The word “ached” shows us a strong meaning for hard work. It shows that

The novel Road to Winter (2016) by Mark Smith is set in the aftermath of a deadly virus that has wiped out most of the of the population in and around Angowrie, Australia. The text follows the adventures of Finn Morrison, a teenage boy who was left stranded after the death of his parents during the epidemic. When Finn encounters another survivor named Rose, his life becomes very chaotic and dangerous, Smith has successfully highlighted that when survival is threatened, it is not every man for himself. Finn and Rose, Ray and Finn and Ramage and his wilder gang are all excellent examples of groups when survival is threatened.

Mark Smith’s, The Road to Winter (2016), charts the narrative of Australian teenager, Finn, who has survived a virus that has wiped out the majority of his town. Finn is forced to survive, protecting himself from the violent gangs in the North on his own, following the death of his parents. With survival being the main theme of the novel, the characters in The Road to Winter exhibit their exceptional and awful capabilities when their survival is threatened. Despite characters living in seclusion, they will go to any means to protect their own survival. Furthermore, when Finn, Rose or Kas’ lives are threatened, alternate characters will rise to their assistance, completing formidable acts of bravery to save them. Finally, Ramage displays his awful capabilities, threatening others survival, if his own leadership is jeopardised.

The short story, “Doe Season” written by David Michael Kaplan is about a young girl’s loss of innocence and hesitation towards womanhood. In this story, the protagonist, an eight year old girl joins in on a hunting trip with her father and some friends. During this trip, Andy learns that being one of the boys may not be what she aspires after all. A few literary elements Kaplan uses helps readers better understand the story while reading such as, the characters, setting, and symbolism.

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.

In the text Maestro, the composer uses techniques such as similes, metaphors and multi-sensual images to convey distinctively visual,

Jersey Boys on Broadway played Friday August 22nd at 8 Pm, and performed at the August Wilson Theater in New York. The main characters consisted of Dominic Scaglione Jr. as Frankie Valli, Richard H. Blake as Tommy DeVito, Quinn VanAntwerp as Bob Gaudio and Michael Lomenda as Nick Massi. Jersey Boys is a musical memoir of the 1960’s rock and roll group, The Four Seasons. Through the progression of the play, the audience is taken on a journey as each member of the group narrates a particular development emphasizing how the Four Seasons came to be. In the first Act, Tommy DeVito walks out on stage and begins to tell the audience about the development of the band. At first, the group started out as starting out as "The Variety Trio" along with his brother, Nick DeVito and friend Nick Massi. At that time, Tommy discovered a confused teenager, Frankie Castelluccio, and took him under his wing, teaching him everything he knows about music. With Nick DeVito in prison, the band struggled to gain any form of success, they changed their names multiple times until Bob Gaudio, singer and songwriter came along uniting the lost group (Playbill: Jersey Boys).

Music is constantly changing. The Baroque period (1600-1750) and the Classical period (1750-1820) have both differences and similarities in elements such as form, texture, and dynamics. I will be comparing the first movement of Spring from the Four Seasons composed by Antonio Vivaldi and the first movement of Symphony No. 5 in C minor by Ludwig van Beethoven. I will construct a stylistic comparison of the two compositions and their musical stylings with regard to the periods of music of which they belong.

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

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.

Corelli also used this concept in his teachings; especially to such composers like Francesco Geminiani and Pietro Locatelli. Other composers such as Antonio Vivaldi and Bach studied Corelli’s compositions. Towards the end of his life, Corelli toured all over Europe and gained popularity. Corelli died a famous and rich man on January 19, 1713. His compositions eventually gave him the name “Father of Concerto Grosso”. The composition I chose from Corelli’s works is his Christmas Concerto, Concerto Grosso Opus 6, that made Corelli the prime of his time. Corelli’s composition consists of a small group of solo instruments against a larger group of instruments. This creates the terrace dynamics in the composition. The beginning of the composition starts out with the two violins playing on different beats slow. The slow tempo makes the conjunct melody have a smooth and pleasing texture. Then the melody jumps to an allegro tempo that is fast paced and intense. The composition’s tempo has a slow-fast-slow movement throughout the whole piece. The fugal style contains stressed rhythms and vocal delays are a perfect example of his built concept of Concerto

The beginning lines of “Sowing Season” depict a loss “Was losing all my friends, was losing them to drinking and to driving”, however, as the song continues it feels like a journey through struggle and personal growth, as well as eventually leading to an end that feels like a fork in the road. I feel that depending on who is listening to the song and where their personal experiences lie, the song could be about a journey to redemption or a journey to inevitable death (weather that be death of the self or the soul). Within the first verse of “Sowing Season” there is an ending and a new beginning, “Was losing all my friends, but I got them back” to me, this suggests feelings of hopelessness, but also comfort that the speaker will be reunited

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

The composition mainly utilized changes in amplitude and the timbre of the horns interacting with the woodwinds and strings in order to really create the mystical and deeply philosophic atmosphere of the work. Overall the piece is packed with symbolism and Ives expertly utilizes musical composition as well as performance instruction in order to tell a deep and moving narrative of the quest of human understanding of our own

The structural thinking behind the Four Seasons was that each movement – twelve in all (three per season) – would evoke a certain mood. Vivaldi delivered elegance and originality in his work. His music mirrors graphically the action described; this literary link is called program music.Vilvaldis four season concertos were based on an Italian sonnet, likely written by Vivaldi where he depicts and illustrates the narratives through his compositions. For example, in Vivaldi’s second concerto summer he depicts a peaceful, calm mood at the beginning of the first movement. The atmosphere is extraordinarily vivid, depicting the oppressive heat from the Mediterranean sun. The plaintive signs of the violin, separated by silences which suggest the intake of breath is a tiring exertion, it gives no hint to the explosive energy that lies ahead. (See example two). In the concerto Winter he evokes a thunder storm,with the use of piercing high notes in the violin at a rapid speed. For