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VIVALDI, How the music affects the mood - Coggle Diagram
VIVALDI
Melody
Types:
Conjunct runs; broken chords; repeated notes; arpeggios (cantabile 2nd mvt) ; virgorous (1st/3rd mvt) compount intervals
Phrasing
irregular; occasional balanced phrases
Melodic Devices
sequences; inversion; ideas joined together; motivic
Non harmony notes
auxiliary; passing; chromatic; suspension
Harmony
Overall
mainly consonant, functional harmony, mainly perfect cadences
Harmonic devices:
harmonic sequence, flattened leading note, even harmonic rhythm, appoggiaturas, suspensions
More unusual chords
neapolitan 6th, diminished 7th
Tonality
Diatonic, major-minor modulation to related keys, but more than purcell, pivot chords, pedals, modal changes, chromatic chords.
Structure
3 MVTS, outer mvts ritornello, ritornellos tend to be shorter after 1st statement, episodes tend to get more elaborate, some relationship between ritornello and episode material, opening ritornello has successions of ideas, 2nd mvt: binary form.
Sonority
Sonorite (timbre) Flute concerto, reduced scoring in 2nd mvt and episodes, strings and contino, flute alone, tasto solo - no chords in continuo part
Texture
Unison, 3rds, homophonic, little imitation/canon, 2 pt writing, pedals, part overlap
Tempo, Rhythm and Metre
Outer mvts - allegro 4/4 and 3/4, dotted notes, anacrusis, syncopation, use of rests, cadenza (free tempo?), diminuation, fermata, rhythmic displacement, 2nd mvt - 12/8, sicilliano rhythm and tempo
Dynamics and Articulation
In outer mvts - some trills marked piano markings in reduced scoring sections, forte for ritornellos, staccato markings on repeated notes, no markings 2nd mvt (it used to be thought that the paucity of dynamic makings mainly just f and p meant that players used to just play loud and soft "terraced dynamics" - extremes would be avoided. - likely players didnt read the dynamic markings
How the music affects the mood
2nd mvt
like a song (cantabile) sicilliana rhythm with pastoral overtones; irregular phrases
3rd mvts
similar to 1sts, more general mood outer mvts, dynamic and forward-moving, compound intervals, vigorous melodies, irregular phrasing, suspensions at cadences, consonant between ritornellos and episodes, variety in scoring, mainly homophonic
1st mvt
relationship to goldfinch use of flute, cadenza, trills high pitches, reduced scorings, no bass