Antonio Vivaldi's La Primavera From The Four Seasons And The Baroque Era

The two compositions I will be comparing are Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi 's Baroque piece La Primavera from the Four Seasons to the Classical composition Eine Kleine Nachtmusik the third movement by the Austrian songsmith Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The reason for choosing these two compositions because I enjoy listening to these compositions. I Also feel that the compositions both represent their era very well including the composers. I also wanted to see if the string quartets have or how they evolved from the Baroque to the Classical era. My love for the Baroque aesthetic I wanted to choose a piece that is commercially used but also entertaining and also not so busy in harmony and melody, which most compositions from the baroque era are.
Vivaldi 's rhythm for La …show more content…
The steady beat is recognizable it is also not too fast and the tempo speed is medium, but when it comes to the violin solo it speeds up. The melody is in the major scale, also the composition has a wide pitch range; while the pitch sequence is as almost the same for the rest of the composition, but it changed when it comes to the solos. The direction in movement goes up stay the same then go back up then go down again with the main idea in the melody. The harmony is polyphonic it has more than one idea when there was a solo it was accompanied by another violin providing it with some harmony. There was not a lot dissonance there was a little with the violin duet but for the most part a lot consonance. The main idea repeated itself throughout the composition. For Mozart 's third movement of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, the rhythm is a slow gliding motion and the Steady Beat is also slow, but recognizable. The tempo is moderately slow during the developments but was brick or allegro when the main idea was reintroduced. There was some Accelerando and Ritardando when the themes were being introduced, but there were no