Kelly Valleau Vivaldi Spring, Mov 1: Allegro
TAB is FREE with membership to LESSONS ARE POSTED Exclusive video lessons (TAB on screen). Step by step break downs. Multiple levels of difficulty from beginner to advanced. Springtime is upon us. The birds celebrate her return with festive song, and murmuring streams are softly caressed by the breezes. Thunderstorms, those heralds of Spring, roar, casting their dark mantle over heaven, Then they die away to silence, and the birds take up their charming songs once more. The Four Seasons is a group of four violin concerti by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of which gives musical expression to a season of the year. The Four Seasons is the best known of Vivaldi s works. Though three of the concerti are wholly original, the first, Spring, borrows motifs from a Sinfonia in the first act of Vivaldi s contemporaneous opera Il Giustino. The inspiration for the concertos was probably the countryside around Mantua, where Vivaldi was living at the
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