'The Four Seasons' and Other Violin Concertos in Full Score. Opus 8 Complete

The complete Op.8 Concerti. Original new Dover edition. Other included concertos are concertos 5-12.

Vivaldi's violín concertos called "The Four Seasons" are one of the best known and loved collections of string music in our time. Their programmatic nature, based on the lines of sonnets printed along with the music, brings seasonal sights and sounds readily and delightfully to the ear: the bird calls in "Spring," the swarms of wasps in "Summer," the hunters' horns in "Autumn," the winds and icy snow of "Winter."

This volume contains these wonderfully evocative masterpieces along with eight other concertos that comprise Vivaldi's complete Opus 8-including "The Storm at Sea," "Pleasure" and "The Hunt."

Dr. Eleanor Selfridge-Field, a recognized authority on music of the Italian Baroque, has researched primary sources in Italy to prepare this specially commissioned, authoritative new edition. Together with its excellent scores-new music plates have been prepared to create an unusually pristine and elegant edition-the volume provides a thorough introduction to Vivaldi's music and times, a new English translation of the original sonnets (with a guide to their linear placement in the scores), and extensive editorial notes for students of the period.

Original Dover (1995) publication.

CONTENIDO:

- Introduction
"The Four Seasons": Sonnet Texts
Bibliography

- Il Cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione (The Contesi of Harmony and Invention)
Twelve Concertos for Violin, Strings and Continuo (Opus 8 / early 1720s)

"THE FOUR SEASONS" (OPUS 8, Nos. 1-4)
Concerto No. 1 in E Major: La Primavera ("Spring")
(Op. 8, No. 1 / RV 269)
I. Allegro
II. Largo
III. Allegro

Concerto No. 2 in G Minor: L'Estate ("Summer')
(Op. 8, No. 2 / RV 315)
I. Allegro non molto
II. Adagio
III. Presto

Concerto No. 3 in F Major: L'Autunno ("Autumn')
(Op. 8, No. 3 / RV 293)
I. Allegro
II. Adagio molto
III. Allegro

Concerto No. 4 in F Minor: L'Inverno ("Winter")
(Op. 8, No. 4 / RV 297)
I. Allegro non molto
II. Largo
III. Allegro


OTHER VIOLIN CONCERTOS (Opus 8, Nos. 5-12)

Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major: La Tempesta di Mare ("The Storm at Sea')
(Op. 8, No. 5 / RV 253)
I. Presto
II. Largo
III. Presto

Concerto No. 6 in C Major: Il Piacere ("Pleasure)
(Op. 8, No. 6 / RV 180)
I. Allegro
II. Largo e cantabile
III. Allegro
Concerto No. 7 in D Minor
(Op. 8, No. 7 / RV 242)
I. Allegro
II. Largo
III. Allegro

Concerto No. 8 in G Minor
(Op. 8, No. 8 / RV 332)
I. Allegro
II. Largo
III. Allegro

Concerto No. 9 in D Minor
(Op. 8, No. 9 / RV 236)
I. Allegro
II. Largo
III. Allegro

Concerto No. 10 in B-flat Major: La Caccia ("The Hunt").
(Op. 8, No. 10 / RV 362)
I. Allegro
II. Adagio
III. Allegro

Concerto No. 11 in D Major
(Op. 8, No. 11/ RV 210)
I. Allegro
II. Largo
III. Allegro

Concerto No. 12 in C Major
(Op. 8, No. 12 / RV 178)
I. Allegro
II. Largo
III. Allegro


IMPORTANT VARIANTS
How to Use the Variants

Concerto No. 7 in D Minor (RV 242)
Allegro (Movement I)
a. Substitute for Bars 50-76

Concerto No. 9 in D Minor (RV 236)
(Version for Oboe, Strings and Continuo, RV 454)
Allegro (Movement 1)
a. Substitute for Bars 91-102

Concerto No. 11 in D Major (RV 210)
Allegro (Movement I)
a. Substitute for Bars 100-112
b. Substitute for Bars 122-132 Allegro (Movement III)
c. Substitute for Bars 38-67
d. Substitute for Bars 113-154
e. Substitute for Bars 171-214
f. Substitute for Bars 171-208

CRITICAL NOTES
- The Sources
The Amsterdam Print
The Dresden Manuscripts
The Manchester Partbooks
The Turin Autograph Scores

- The Dover Edition
Text Fonts Used in "The Four Seasons"
Abbreviations Used in the Table of Emendations

Table of Emendations