The Four Seasons

I have totally fallen in love with a piece of music, it is perhaps one of the most ingenous things I have ever heard done musically, though I have only heard a protion of it, the 1st movement to be exzact as it is a piece of classical music, I cannot wait for the oppertunity to get my hands on the rest of it.

I have started classes again, and the new class I am taking now is the history, theroy, and apperication of music, meant to teach non-music majors how to listen to music, and it is the study of primairly classical music, it started with the Middle Ages and now we have just began discussing the Baroque period, and with the text book for the class there are set of CD's to listen to sample music to hear the things the book is discussing, and the composer Vavildi composed a concerto (for those whom do not know music, that is when an Ocherasta plays in contrast to either like a quartet or single instrument) called The Four Seasons, and it is what is known as Progam Music, which is music that tells a story without words using, only insturments. So the Orchestra will play a repeating theme, and then the quartet, or instrument, will play a prelude that helps the plot along, and the prelude is always different while the themse is the same all the time.

So Vavaldi composed a concerto that is meant to tell the story of the changing of the Four Seasons, down in four movements, and each movement is dedicated to one of the seasons, so for my class we have the 1st movement called La Primavera, which tells the story of spring. So first the Orchestra plays the theme, which is happy up beat music, and then the quartet does a prelude to mimic the sound of flying chriping birds, then back to the Orchestra, and then the quartet immitates a winding brook with a gentle breeze, then back to the Orchestra, and then the next prelude is thunder and lighetning, and then back to the theme, and then the prelude does this really intense the storm is stratign to break, and blows over and th birds come back, then it goes back to the theme, and then another prelude that is the birds signing happily again.

It is just amazing to actualy listen to, and I really want to see what he does with the rest of the three seasons. I totally love this thing.

2:35 PM - 10/12/2007 - post comment

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