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Story Time, Summaries of Italian

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Vivaldi composed The Four Seasons based on landscape paintings by Italian artist, Marco Ricci. The composition consists of four pieces (Spring, Summer, Autumn, ...

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Stories can be told orally or through poetry, music
and paintings. Composers often write music to tell
a story using sound (without words).
Vivaldi composed The Four Seasons based on
landscape paintings by Italian artist, Marco Ricci.
The composition consists of four pieces (Spring,
Summer, Autumn, and Winter), each one containing
three movements with tempos in the following
order: fast-slow-fast.
When composers write a musical narrative of a
story, poem, or painting, it is called program
music. Vivaldi's Four Seasons is one of the earliest
examples of program music which became much
more common a century later.
The quartet will be playing excerpts from “Spring.”
You can listen to the entire movement on YouTube
at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3nSvIiBNFo.
Other compositions from which excerpts will be played by the quartet include:
Borodin – Nocturne at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKsCxvT8e8Y
Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, Movement 1 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSgkeOwTVx8
Bartok - Quartet No. 4, Movement 3 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oulYGSXQUo
Shostakovich - Quartet No. 3, Movement 3 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ3zzNI0oRc
Musical Characters – Vivaldi and Beethoven
(adapted from biography.com)
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was born in 1678, in Venice, Italy. His father
was a professional violinist who taught his young son to play as well.
Through his father, Vivaldi met and learned to play the violin from
some of the finest musicians and composers in Venice at the time.
At the age of 15, Vivaldi began studying to become a priest. Vivaldi's
career as a priest was short because health problems prevented him
from leading church services.
At the age of 25, Antonio Vivaldi was named master of violin at the
Devout Hospital of Mercy in Venice. He composed most of his major
works in this position over thirty years. In 1716, he was promoted
to music director.
In addition to his regular employment, Vivaldi accepted a number of
short-term positions funded by patrons in Mantua and Rome. It was
during his term in Mantua, from around 1717 to 1721, that he wrote
his four-part masterpiece, The Four Seasons and paired the pieces
with four sonnets.
After a few years, Vivaldi found it difficult to earn a living and left
Venice for Vienna, Austria, where he found a position in the Imperial
Rockefeller Quartet Presents
Story Time
Landscape Paintings by Marco Ricci
Anonymous portrait in oils is
generally believed to be of Vivaldi
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Stories can be told orally or through poetry, music and paintings. Composers often write music to tell a story using sound (without words). Vivaldi composed The Four Seasons based on landscape paintings by Italian artist, Marco Ricci. The composition consists of four pieces ( Spring , Summer , Autumn, and Winter) , each one containing three movements with tempos in the following order: fast-slow-fast. When composers write a musical narrative of a story, poem, or painting, it is called program music. Vivaldi's Four Seasons is one of the earliest examples of program music which became much more common a century later. The quartet will be playing excerpts from “ Spring .” You can listen to the entire movement on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3nSvIiBNFo. Other compositions from which excerpts will be played by the quartet include: Borodin – Nocturne at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKsCxvT8e8Y Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, Movement 1 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSgkeOwTVx Bartok - Quartet No. 4, Movement 3 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oulYGSXQUo Shostakovich - Quartet No. 3, Movement 3 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ3zzNI0oRc Musical Characters – Vivaldi and Beethoven (adapted from biography.com) Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was born in 1678, in Venice, Italy. His father was a professional violinist who taught his young son to play as well. Through his father, Vivaldi met and learned to play the violin from some of the finest musicians and composers in Venice at the time. At the age of 15, Vivaldi began studying to become a priest. Vivaldi's career as a priest was short because health problems prevented him from leading church services. At the age of 25, Antonio Vivaldi was named master of violin at the Devout Hospital of Mercy in Venice. He composed most of his major works in this position over thirty years. In 1716, he was promoted to music director. In addition to his regular employment, Vivaldi accepted a number of short-term positions funded by patrons in Mantua and Rome. It was during his term in Mantua, from around 1717 to 1721, that he wrote his four-part masterpiece, The Four Seasons and paired the pieces with four sonnets. After a few years, Vivaldi found it difficult to earn a living and left Venice for Vienna, Austria, where he found a position in the Imperial Rockefeller Quartet Presents

Story Time

Landscape Paintings by Marco Ricci

Anonymous portrait in oils is generally believed to be of Vivaldi

Court located there. He became unemployed again after the death of Charles VI, however, and died in poverty in Vienna on July 28, 1741. He was buried in a simple grave. Today, Vivaldi’s compositions are very popular and played frequently. He wrote hundreds of works, and is famous for his concertos for solo instruments or groups of instruments with orchestra. He was a highly gifted innovator in form and pattern and has influenced many other important composers over the years.

Composer and pianist, Ludwig Van Beethoven, was born in 1770 in the city of Bonn which is currently in Germany. He studied the violin and clavier with his father and took additional lessons from organists around town, becoming an excellent musician at an early age. On April 2, 1800, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 in C major was performed for the first time at the Royal Imperial Theater in Vienna. The performance established him as one of Europe's most celebrated composers. Beethoven wrote piece after piece that marked him as a masterful composer. His "Six String Quartets," published in 1801, put him in the company of Mozart and Haydn as one of the most important composers of the time. Despite losing his hearing, Beethoven continued to write music at a rapid pace. From 1803-1812, known as his "middle" or "heroic" period, he composed an opera, six symphonies, four solo concerti, five string quartets, six string sonatas, seven piano sonatas, five sets of piano variations, four overtures, four trios, two sextets and 72 songs. Despite a difficult personal life and physical challenges which included growing completely deaf, Beethoven composed his greatest music near the end of his life. Beethoven's Ninth and final symphony, completed in 1824, remains the composer's greatest achievement. The symphony's famous choral finale , with four vocal soloists and a chorus singing the words of Friedrich Schiller's poem "Ode to Joy," is perhaps the most famous piece of music in history. Beethoven died on March 26, 1827, and is considered by many people who love classical music to be the the greatest composer of all time. The quartet will be playing excerpts from Beethoven’s Quartet Op. 59, No. 2. You can listen to the entire piece on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21daKHjkXpA

What are 3 similarities of Vivaldi and Beethoven?

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Portrait of Beethoven by Joseph Karl Stieler, 1820

WRITE YOUR OWN STORY! (Answering some of the questions may help you decide

what your story will be. Then use another piece of paper and write your story.)

Introduction (Catch the attention of the reader. How do you start? Is it happy or sad?)

Setting (Where does the story happen? What’s the weather?)

Characters (Who is in your story? What do they look like? How old are they? What are

they wearing? What are they feeling?)

Plot (What happens next? Do other characters appear?)

Conflict/Problem (What’s the problem? Do the characters get along? Do they disagree

about something? About what do they disagree? Do they like each other?)

Climax/Problem – (The big moment in the story when the plot goes one way or another.

Then what happens?)

Resolution (How does the conflict get resolved? What happens to the characters?)

characters – the people, animals, or animated objects a story is about celebrated – famous in a good way composer – a person who writes music composition – written music clavier – a keyboard instrument common in Europe 250 years ago similar to a piano finale – the last part of a musical composition that is usually exciting and impressive frequently – often innovator – a person who uses new ideas plot – what your story is about: the theme or idea resolution – the way you end your story so that all problems are solved setting – where a story takes place, it includes time period and location sonnet - a poem of fourteen lines using rhyming words, usually having ten syllables per line. These materials have been prepared by Arkansas Learning Through The Arts in partnership with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. These materials are copyrighted but may be used and copied for non-commercial educational purposes.