Ideal for study in the classroom, at home, or in the concert hall, this affordable, high-quality, conveniently sized volume will be the edition of choice for music students and music lovers alike.ĭr. The work appears here in full score, with bar-numbered movements. Together with its excellent scores - new music plates have been prepared to create an unusually pristine and elegant edition - the volume provides a thorough introduction to Vivaldi's music and times, as well as a new English translation of the original sonnets (with a guide to their linear placement in the scores). Eleanor Selfridge-Field, a recognized authority on music of the Italian Baroque, has researched primary sources in Italy to prepare this specially commissioned, authoritative new edition. Their programmatic nature, based on the lines of sonnets printed along with the music, brings seasonal sights and sounds readily and delightfully to the ear: the bird calls in Spring, the swarms of wasps in Summer, the hunters' horns in Autumn, the winds and icy snow of Winter.ĭr.
Vivaldi's violin concertos called The Four Seasons are among the best-known and most-loved collections of string music. Eleanor Selfridge-Field, this authoritative, up-to-date edition incorporates Vivaldi's descriptive notes directly in music. About the Book Baroque masterpiece of program music, composed as musical illustration of four sonnets.
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