As the years have gone by, music has changed quite a bit. Music started off with simple monophonic songs but it quickly grew, changed, and evolved. Now music is a completely different being when compared to what it used to be. However, as music transformed, while certain characteristics disappeared for good, certain traits from an older era would reemerge from time to time. This is something that can clearly be seen when comparing the Concerto for Two Violins in G Major and Symphony Number 10. Although one may not think it, while these two piece certainly are very different from one another, they also have some striking similarities.
The first piece for this comparison is the Concerto for Two Violins in G Major, which was written by Antonio Vivaldi, one of the great Baroque artists. When the piece begins one will immediately notice that the only instruments for …show more content…
The first is their length. They are both around nine minutes long with Mozart’s being about 30 seconds longer that Vivaldi’s. They are also similar in the fact that neither had tempo markings in the original score. Instead the tempos for the pieces were determined by the names of the movements, which is where they are incredibly similar. When I picked these pieces, I simply picked them because of the era’s from which they came along with the composer. To my pleasant surprise, not only did they both have the same number of movements, but they also had the same structure. They both have three movements and all three movements are essentially the same. They both start off with an Allegro, then go to an Andante and then finish with another Allegro. In fact, this is the concerto form that Vivaldi helped establish. This was something that really surprised me as I never would’ve thought that they would share something like that. Especially since I picked these songs at random as opposed to searching for songs that did this
The first piece for this comparison is the Concerto for Two Violins in G Major, which was written by Antonio Vivaldi, one of the great Baroque artists. When the piece begins one will immediately notice that the only instruments for …show more content…
The first is their length. They are both around nine minutes long with Mozart’s being about 30 seconds longer that Vivaldi’s. They are also similar in the fact that neither had tempo markings in the original score. Instead the tempos for the pieces were determined by the names of the movements, which is where they are incredibly similar. When I picked these pieces, I simply picked them because of the era’s from which they came along with the composer. To my pleasant surprise, not only did they both have the same number of movements, but they also had the same structure. They both have three movements and all three movements are essentially the same. They both start off with an Allegro, then go to an Andante and then finish with another Allegro. In fact, this is the concerto form that Vivaldi helped establish. This was something that really surprised me as I never would’ve thought that they would share something like that. Especially since I picked these songs at random as opposed to searching for songs that did this