Transcript Vivaldi - West Ada

March 4th, 1679 – July 28th 1741
These little boxes are my
comments for you to write
down or know as if I was
there. Enjoy!
Antonio Vivaldi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGT9IB2bFo
Listen to the following piece of music and write down a
Listening Map about the following four musical elements.
Discuss in class and have teacher write on board. Put in your notes 
Vivaldi: The Summer III. Presto
Melody
Harmony
Medium
Style
Baroque Era events
1603
Death of Queen Elizabeth I
1607
First settlement in Jamestown, VA
1611
Bible: King James Version
1628
Dr. William Harvey explains circulatory system
1643
Reign of Louis XIV
1649
Period of Commonwealth begins in England
1667
John Milton’s Paradise Lost
1684
Sir Isaac Newton’s theory of gravitation
1715
Reign of Louis XV begins
1728
John Gay’s Beggar’s Opera performed
1703
•Ordained
•Physical ailment … “jot down musical ideas”
•Employed at “orphanage”
1703 -
•Moved to Mantua: court position to write operas, cantatas, and concert music.
1717
1725
•Il cimento dell’armonia e dell’invention (The trial of harmony and invention)
•A book of 12 concertos
•Descriptive music became a mostly Italian musical style with its unmistakable timbre in which the strings play a major role.
•8 operas premiered in Florence and Venice
1725-1728
1724 – 1743
1740/1741
Descriptive Music: a type
of art music that attempts
to musically render an
extra-musical narrative.
Also known as program
music.
•Staged over 60 operas in Prague
•Traveled back and forth between Venice and Prague
•Moved to Amsterdam to work
•1741: Died
Just interesting to know about Vivaldi…
Anna Giraud…?
• In 172O Vivaldi returned to Venice where he again staged new
operas written by himself in the Teatro Sant' Angelo. In Mantua he
had made the acquaintance of the singer Anna Giraud (or Giro), and
she had moved in to live with him. Vivaldi maintained that she was
no more than a housekeeper and good friend, just like Anna's sister,
Paolina, who also shared his house.
• In his Memoires, the Italian playwright Carlo Goldoni gave the
following portrait of Vivaldi and Giraud: "This priest, an excellent
violinist but a mediocre composer, has trained Miss Giraud to be a
singer. She was young, born in Venice, but the daughter of a French
wigmaker. She was not beautiful, though she was elegant, small in
stature, with beautiful eyes and a fascinating mouth. She had a
small voice, but many languages in which to harangue." Vivaldi
stayed together with her until his death.
http://www.baroquemusic.org/bqxvivaldi.html
Why Vivaldi is important…
Consolidated the form of the concerto
Emote feelings and descriptions never
heard before in music
Helped bring instrumental and operatic
works to the forefront of popular music
Antonio Vivaldi: Spring, The Four
Seasons
Listen to the piece of music (it is longer than we are used to).
Write down descriptors about the musical elements provided.
Discuss as a class – work together after you listen.
Melody
Harmony
Observations
on: Spring
Medium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjpLxlSMJPo
Style