vivaldi summer mvt 3
TRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: Vivaldi Summer Mvt 3](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022081419/555c1567d8b42ad77e8b5301/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Summer: Movement 3
By Antonio Vivaldi
![Page 2: Vivaldi Summer Mvt 3](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022081419/555c1567d8b42ad77e8b5301/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Antonio Vivaldi
• Priest, Baroque composer, and virtuoso violinist• Born in Venice, Italy• Had several health problems including asthma that restricted him from playing wind instruments• Wrote approximately 110 concertos/sonatas• Financial status created ultimate downfall
![Page 3: Vivaldi Summer Mvt 3](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022081419/555c1567d8b42ad77e8b5301/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Summer Mvt. 3
• Summer concerto is one of four concerto’s in Vivaldi’s set “Four Seasons”
• Four Seasons is arguably Vivaldi’s most famous work
• Summer concerto is a tale of an impending storm
• Storm is unleashed in 3rd mvt.
![Page 4: Vivaldi Summer Mvt 3](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022081419/555c1567d8b42ad77e8b5301/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
• Thunder shakes the opening of the 3rd movement with the lower strings furious repetition
• Lightning strikes as the higher strings come in with call and answers
![Page 5: Vivaldi Summer Mvt 3](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022081419/555c1567d8b42ad77e8b5301/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
• Lightning strikes everywhere as the mid strings join the high strings
• The orchestra coming in represents the torrential downpour of the storm
![Page 6: Vivaldi Summer Mvt 3](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022081419/555c1567d8b42ad77e8b5301/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
• The peasant (solo violin) tries to flee as the storm destroys everything around them
• The effort is in vein as the peasant is trapped under the storm’s wrath
![Page 7: Vivaldi Summer Mvt 3](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022081419/555c1567d8b42ad77e8b5301/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
• The storm dies down a bit and the orchestra as a whole plays in an uplifting manner. Elements of thunder and lightning can still be recognized in the lower strings. Perhaps this is only the eye of the storm?
![Page 8: Vivaldi Summer Mvt 3](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022081419/555c1567d8b42ad77e8b5301/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
• The storm returns relentlessly
• The peasant makes a last ditch effort to flee the storms fury as the soloist goes back and forth with the orchestra
![Page 9: Vivaldi Summer Mvt 3](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022081419/555c1567d8b42ad77e8b5301/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
• It is no use. The peasant succumbs to the storm in the final few seconds of the movement.