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Autumn 1st Movement
Autumn 2nd Movement
Autumn 3rd Movement
ITALIAN CLASSES 2D AND 2E PLAYING VIVALDI'S AUTUMN
Autumn
The Autumn is a concert full of joy because the time speaks about the harvest time, and when sowing good seed obtains good fruits and this is reason for great happiness.
Suddenly all the joy is interrupted and changes the rhythm of music and one quiet melody is heard. In the celebrations always there is somebody who eats and drinks too much and soon it looks for a place to take a nap calmly.
In the Autumn the leaves of the trees get dry little by little and when they are very dry, impelled by the caress of the wind, give off and fall to form a crisp carpet when being stepped on. The harpsichord interprets a melody that makes us imagine the capricious fall of the dry leaves.
Third movement. To go hunting was the favorite sport on Vivaldi’s time. A cheer and playful melody speaks to us about the hunters who gather in the dawn between laughter and jokes and get ready to initiate the great hunting. The violin solo, accompanied by the first hoop of the orchestra, imitates the sound of the hunting horn and thus a series of dialogues between the violinist and the orchestra follows one another, describing the adventure to find, persecute and to reach a prey.
Ángeles Saavedra, (2010). Antonio Vivaldi and the "Four Seasons" explained
AUTUMN (CONCERTO NO. 3) Vivaldi's Sonnet
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The peasant celebrates with song and dance The pleasure of the rich harvest,
And full of the liquor of Bacchus
They finish their merrymaking with a sleep.
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All are made to leave off singing and dancing By the air which now mild gives pleasure And by the season which invited many
To enjoy a sweet sleep.
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At dawn the hunters
With horns and guns and dogs leave their homes; The beast flees; they follow its traces.
Already terrified and tired by the great noise Of the guns and the dogs, and wounded it tries Feebly to escape, but exhausted dies.