1. MUSC 1100
Music Appreciation
Listening To Music Exercise

2. Aaron Copland, (1900-90)
American Composer
Composed such well known pieces such as:
Rodeo from Billy the Kid.
Copland identified
3 Ways of Listening to
music
Casual
Emotional

3. Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Listen to this piece: What do you
hear, and what emotions or thoughts
does the music provoke?
Click to start music.

4. Your listening to
Vivaldi’s La Primavera
might be described as
Casual and/or
Emotional.

5. Much of our listening to music
this semester will be
Intellectual. Let’s begin by
listening to La Primavera again
with added information for an
intellectual listening
experience.

6. La Primavera (Spring)
First Movement, Op. 8, No.1
from The Four Seasons
 Programmatic music
 Music used to depict specific emotions, moods or
events
 La Primavera
 Is meant to depict aspects of Spring time through
music.
 Spring
 Storms
 Birds
 Flowing Stream

7. La Primavera
First Movement, Op. 8, No.1
 Listen to each example, does it sound like:
 Springtime
 Birds
 A Storm with thunder and lightning
 A Stream
 What elements of the music create the effect.
 Click to next slide to begin.

8. Example 1
Example 2
Example 3
Example 4
Click here for answers

9. La Primavera is based upon a
Sonnet:
8 lines of text followed by 6 lines of
text
La Primavera (First Part)
Spring has arrived, and full of joy
The birds greet it with their happy song.
The streams, swept by gentle breezes,
Flow along with a sweet murmur.
Covering the sky with a black cloak,
Thunder and Lightning come to announce the
season.
When all is quite again, the little birds

10. “Spring” Sonnet
 Allegro
Allegro (Movement One)
"Giunt' è la Primavera e festosetti
Spring has arrived, and full of joy
La Salutan gl' Augei con lieto canto,
The birds greet it with their happy song.
E i fonti allo Spirar de' Zeffiretti
The streams, swept by gentle breezes,
Con dolce mormorio Scorrono intanto:
Flow along with a sweet murmur.
Vengon' coprendo l' aer di nero amanto
Covering the sky with a black cloak,
E Lampi, e tuoni ad annuntiarla eletti
Thunder and Lightning come to announce the season.
Indi tacendo questi, gl' Augelletti;
When all is quite again, the little birds
Tornan' di nuovo al lor canoro incanto:"
Return to their lovely song.
Largo (Movement Two)  Largo
On the flower-strewn meadow, with "E quindi sul fiorito ameno prato
leafy branches rustling overhead, the goat-herd sleeps, his Al caro mormorio di fronde e piante
faithful dog beside him. Dorme 'l Caprar col fido can' à lato."
Allegro (Movement Three)  Allegro
Led by the festive sound of rustic bagpipes, "Di pastoral Zampogna al suon festante
nymphs and shepherds lightly dance beneath the brilliant Danzan Ninfe e Pastor nel tetto amato
canopy of spring.
Di primavera all' apparir brillante."

11. La Primavera
First Movement, Op. 8, No.1
 Concerto: Violin Solo with  Ritornello Form:
 Complete Ritornello (Orchestra Plays without
Orchestra; 3 mov. (fast-slow-fast)
solo)
 Orchestra: Strings and  Epsiode1 (Solo)
 Ritornello (Orchestra Plays without solo)
Harpsichord
 Episode 2
 Programmatic: meant to  Ritornello (Orchestra Plays without solo)
 Episode 3
depict emotion/idea or tell a story
 Ritornello (Orchestra Plays without solo)
 Episode 4
 Complete Ritornello (Orchestra Plays without solo)
 Fashioned after a Sonnet or eight
lines of poetry followed by six
BAROQUE 1600-1750

12. Ritornello and EPSIODES
Listen to the entire movement again.
Can you recognize the Episodes and Ritornello?
 Ritornello Spring has arrived, and full of joy
 Episode 1 The birds greet it with their happy song.
 Ritornello Spring has arrived, and full of joy
 Episode 2 The streams, swept by gentle breezes,
Flow along with a sweet murmur.
 Ritornello Spring has arrived, and full of joy
 Episode 3 Covering the sky with a black cloak, Thunder and Lightning
come to announce the season.
 Ritornello Spring has arrived, and full of joy
 Episode 4 When all is quite again, the little birds
Return to their lovely song.
 Ritornello Spring has arrived, and full of joy
Click to play entire movement again

13. Intellectual Listening:
Has your opinion of La Primavera
changed based upon Intellectual
(informed) Listening?

14. Antonio Vivaldi
(1678-1741)
Baroque Composer
Venice, Italy
Director of Music at orphanage for girls
Composed 600 concerti
Oratorios

15. Answers:
1=Spring
2=Storm
3=Stream
4=Birds
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