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Vivaldi
Spring
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• ･The program derives from an Italian
sonnet about spring.
• ･The work describes the specific images
from the poem (birds, brooks, storm).･
• The movement is unified by a recurring
ritornello (representing "Spring").


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Two kinds of concertos:
solo
concerto grosso

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Spring is here and with it happiness.
Birds welcome it with joyful singing
And streams, stoked by gentle breezes,
Flow with a sweet murmur.
The sky is covered with dark clouds
And lightning and thunder are heard.
But when the storm has gone, the birds
Return to fill the air with their singing.

• --From the sonnet for Vivaldi's "Spring"


Slide 5

A little Madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King.
Emily Dickinson
(1830 - 1886), No. 1333