1. LO: To analyze a Concerto

2. Context: The Four Seasons by Vivaldi Success Criteria: 1.I can listen to a Concerto 2.I can identify the various movements of a Concerto 3.I can play or sing the tune of the principal theme of Spring 4.I can compose an 8 bar melody and play it on my recorder or any other tuned instrument

3. Antonio Vivaldi

4. Inspiration: Mantua (Italy)

5. What is a concerto?

6. A musical composition in 3 movements

7. Concerto No 1: Spring Allegro Largo Allegro

8. What does the music make you feel? Allegro 3’27

9. What instruments can you hear?

10. String orchestra

11. Description of Spring concerto Spring begins with the crispness and clarity of a cloudless spring day and features singing birds and murmuring streams. A sudden quick thunderstorm invades, but birdsong soon regains control.

12. Largo 3’21 What do you think this music describes? What instrument is the soloist? What instruments are consisted of string families? What time signatures do you think this music is written?

13. What instrument is this?

14. What movement does this picture match?

15. Allegro 4’28 What does this music makes you feel?

16. What movement does this picture match?

17. Can you hear the instruments that play the drone?

18. What instruments are these?

19. Concerto No 2: Summer Allegro Adagio Presto

20. Allegro non molto 5’48 How do you feel when you hear this music?

21. Description of Summer movements It begins slowly, almost as if it’s too hot to move. The birds sing lazily, and the air is mostly still until a breeze whips up, a warning of a gathering storm.

22. Can you recognize the song of these birds? What instrument plays them?

23. The song birds Cuckoo Dove Goldfinch

24. Can you hear the wind?

25. Adagio 2’16 How would you describe this music?

26. What instrument plays the sleeping shepherd? What do you think interrupts his tranquillity?

27. Played by:

28. Double basses Cellos

29. Presto 2’46 What do you feel this music describes?

30. Summer Storm

31. Scales: up or down? Notes: short or long? Texture: one or plenty of instrument? Tempo: fast or slow? Soloist: ???

32. Concerto No3: Autumn Allegro Adagio Allegro

33. Allegro 5’26 What does this music make you feel?

34. Harvest Celebration Dance

35. Adagio molto 2’36 What do you feel this music describes?

37. How does Vivaldi achieve this calm? Volume: loud or soft? Texture: lots of instruments or a few? Rhythms: short or long notes? Tempo: fast or slow ?

38. Allegro 3’32 What do you feel listening to this music?

40. Concerto No 4: Winter Allegro non molto Largo Allegro

41. Allegro non molto 3’29

42. Largo 2’15

43. Can you hear the raindrops?

44. Allegro 3’16