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AN INTRODUCTION TO (New)
AMERICA
1:1 - First Concerto: Spring. Intro; Opening, Upward-Pointing Figure<br/>1:2 - First Concerto: Spring. Answering, Downward Figure Complete The Phrase<br/>1:3 - First Concerto: Spring. Beginning Of Dialogue<br/>1:4 - First Concerto: Spring. The Nature Of Musical Conversation; Repetition, 'Echo' Effect<br/>1:5 - First Concerto: Spring. Upward Pointing To One 'Target' Note<br/>1:6 - First Concerto: Spring. 'Answer' Points To Two, Downward Notes 'And Here Is A Prong With Two Hooks')<br/>1:7 - First Concerto: Spring. Same Idea Repeated Three Times<br/>1:8 - First Concerto: Spring. The First Solo Section: Birdsong From Three Soloists, Not One<br/>1:9 - First Concerto: Spring. Repeat Of 'Two-Pronged' Theme In Orchestra<br/>1:10 - First Concerto: Spring. Orchestra Depicts Murmuring Stream, But Still There's No Real Melody<br/>1:11 - First Concerto: Spring. Further Illustrative 'Water Studies'<br/>1:12 - First Concerto: Spring. Orchestra Erupts Into Thunderstorm<br/>1:13 - First Concerto: Spring. Orchestral Thunder, Virtuosic 'Lightning' From Soloist - But Still No 'Tune'<br/>1:14 - First Concerto: Spring. Soloistic 'Birds' Return To The Air<br/>1:15 - First Concerto: Spring. Variant of Opening Theme, with 'Argument' Between Two Notes, One High<br/>1:16 - First Concerto: Spring. Cue To First Movement<br/>1:17 - First Concerto: Spring. First Movement (Complete)<br/>1:18 - First Concerto: Spring. Scene Setting And Main Theme Of Second Movement<br/>1:19 - First Concerto: Spring. Analytical Comment And Main Theme Again<br/>1:20 - First Concerto: Spring. Main Theme Varied<br/>1:21 - First Concerto: Spring. Further Var. Tracing Slow, Descending Scale-Steps<br/>1:22 - First Concerto: Spring. Analytical Discussion Of 'Pace' And 'Tempo'; Further Variant Of Main Theme<br/>1:23 - First Concerto: Spring. Vivaldi Springs A Surprise, Reversing Direction And Heightening Tension<br/>1:24 - First Concerto: Spring. Analytical Cue To Second Movement<br/>1:25 - First Concerto: Spring. Second Movement (Complete)<br/>1:26 - First Concerto: Spring. Undercover 'Bagpipes' Initiate The Finale<br/>1:27 - First Concerto: Spring. Second Part Of Main Theme: New Notes, Same Rhythm<br/>1:28 - First Concerto: Spring. An 'Echo' With A Difference<br/>1:29 - First Concerto: Spring. Reminder of 'Echoed' Phrase in It's Original Form<br/>1:30 - First Concerto: Spring. Surprise Variant Provides Springboard Into New Descending Four-Note Pattern<br/>1:31 - First Concerto: Spring. Unexpected, 'Flowing' Entrance Of Soloist<br/>1:32 - First Concerto: Spring. The Use Of 'Sequence' In First Extended Solo<br/>1:33 - First Concerto: Spring. Vivaldi Prepares Expectation.<br/>1:34 - First Concerto: Spring... And Frustrates It By Bringing in a New Theme, Using His Four-Note 'Motto'<br/>1:35 - First Concerto: Spring. Violins Accompanied By Flowing 'Commentary' In Lower Strings<br/>1:36 - First Concerto: Spring. Soloist Returns With New Variant<br/>1:37 - First Concerto: Spring. Pace Slows As Violins Trace Another Four-Note Scalewise Decent<br/>1:38 - First Concerto: Spring. The Peasants Return With The Main Theme, Which Turns Unexpectedly Downward<br/>1:39 - First Concerto: Spring. Intensification As Harmonies Change Under Broad, Descending Four-Note<br/>1:40 - First Concerto: Spring. Mini-Earthquake Transformed Into Harmonic Landslide<br/>1:41 - First Concerto: Spring. Critical Mood-Change In Soloist's Lonely Soliloquy<br/>1:42 - First Concerto: Spring. Cue to Restoration of Main Theme in It's Entirety As the Movement Ends<br/>1:43 - First Concerto: Spring. Third Movement (Complete)<br/>1:44 - Second Concerto: 'Summer': Scene Setting And Opening Of First Movement<br/>1:45 - Second Concerto: 'Summer': Expanded Groups Of Answering Phrase<br/>1:46 - Second Concerto: 'Summer': Upper And Lower Strings Alternately Succumb To Lethargy<br/>1:47 - Second Concerto: 'Summer': As In 'Spring', Soloist Enters With Birdsong<br/>1:48 - Second Concerto: 'Summer': Orchestra Hijacks Soloist's Material<br/>1:49 - Second Concerto: 'Summer': Soloist Returns, First As Turtle-Dove, Then As Goldfinch<br/>1:50 - Second Concerto: 'Summer': Gentle Breezes Give Way To North Wind<br/>1:51 - Second Concerto: 'Summer': The Storm Subsides; Soloist Enters As Weeping Peasant Boy<br/>1:52 - Second Concerto: 'Summer': Movement Ends As Storm Returns<br/>1:53 - Second Concerto: 'Summer': First Movement (Complete)<br/>1:54 - Second Concerto: 'Summer': Second Movement Opens With Extreme Contrasts<br/>1:55 - Second Concerto: 'Summer': Second Movement (Complete)<br/>1:56 - Second Concerto: 'Summer': Stormy Weather; Thunder<br/>1:57 - Second Concerto: 'Summer': Lightning From Upper Strings<br/>1:58 - Second Concerto: 'Summer': More Lightning; 'Heat' Lightning from Violins, 'Fork' Lightning from.<br/>1:59 - Second Concerto: 'Summer': Torrential Rain, Depicted By Entire Orchestra<br/>1:60 - Second Concerto: 'Summer': Deferred Entry Of Solo Violin, In Virtuoso Vein<br/>1:61 - Second Concerto: 'Summer': Peasant's Failing Resolve As Violin Spirals Down<br/>1:62 - Second Concerto: 'Summer': Nature Triumphant; Soloist Draws On Orchestra's 'Rain' Music<br/>1:63 - Second Concerto: 'Summer': The Peasant's Capitulation<br/>1:64 - Second Concerto: 'Summer': Third Movement (Complete)<br/>2:1 - Third Concerto: 'Autumn': Repetitiousness And Folk Music; The Movement's Opening<br/>2:2 - Third Concerto: 'Autumn': Secondary Theme, A Closely Related Development Of The First<br/>2:3 - Third Concerto: 'Autumn': Solo Entry Restates The Opening Theme, 'Double-Stopping'<br/>2:4 - Third Concerto: 'Autumn': Unexpectedly, A New Theme Where A Repeat Might Be Expected<br/>2:5 - Third Concerto: 'Autumn': The Soloist As 'Drunkard'<br/>2:6 - Third Concerto: 'Autumn': Further Violinistic Slips And Slides<br/>2:7 - Third Concerto: 'Autumn': Orchestra Re-Enters With Main Theme, But Is Interrupted By The Drunkard<br/>2:8 - Third Concerto: 'Autumn': Other Drunks Join In 'Dialogue' With The Orchestra<br/>2:9 - Third Concerto: 'Autumn': The Orchestral Peasants Continue Their Dancing, But Things Have Changed<br/>2:10 - Third Concerto: 'Autumn': Enter Another Drunk, Courtesy Of The Virtuoso Soloist<br/>2:11 - Third Concerto: 'Autumn': The Dance Breaks Up<br/>2:12 - Third Concerto: 'Autumn': The Drunkard Interrupts Again, Then Falls Asleep, Breathing Heavily<br/>2:13 - Third Concerto: 'Autumn': Conversation Amongst The Sober Peasants Leads To Their Final Dance<br/>2:14 - Third Concerto: 'Autumn': First Movement (Complete)<br/>2:15 - Third Concerto: 'Autumn': Scene-Setting For Second Movement<br/>2:16 - Third Concerto: 'Autumn': Second Movement (Complete)<br/>2:17 - Third Concerto: 'Autumn': Similarities Between The Third Movement And The First<br/>2:18 - Third Concerto: 'Autumn': Expection And Surprise: Vivaldi Tacks On One Bar Too Many<br/>2:19 - Third Concerto: 'Autumn': A Case Of Predictable Unpredictability: Novelty And Repetition<br/>2:20 - Third Concerto: 'Autumn': Soloist's Double-Stopping Depicts Hunting Horns<br/>2:21 - Third Concerto: 'Autumn': Orchestra Yields To Unexpected Display Of Virtuosity By Soloist<br/>2:22 - Third Concerto: 'Autumn': Soloist Suddenly Takes The Part Of The Fleeing Beast<br/>2:23 - Third Concerto: 'Autumn': Symmetrical Parallels with First Movement: 'Beast'/'Drunkard' Etc<br/>2:24 - Third Concerto: 'Autumn': Death Of The Quarry, End Of The Movement<br/>2:25 - Third Concerto: 'Autumn': Third Movement (Complete)<br/>2:26 - Fourth Concerto: 'Winter': Orchestral Strings Enter, Part By Part; Soloist Depicts The Biting Wind<br/>2:27 - Fourth Concerto: 'Winter': Wind Subsides And Returns, Tormenting The Trudgers Through The Snow<br/>2:28 - Fourth Concerto: 'Winter': Soloist Depicts Snow Flurries<br/>2:29 - Fourth Concerto: 'Winter': Soloist's Flurries Interrupted By Six Blasts Of Orchestral Wind<br/>2:30 - Fourth Concerto: 'Winter': Teeth Chattering, and with Stamping Feet, the Travellers Finally Reach<br/>2:31 - Fourth Concerto: 'Winter': Cue To First Movement As Whole<br/>2:32 - Fourth Concerto: 'Winter': First Movement (Complete)<br/>2:33 - Fourth Concerto: 'Winter': Soloist's 'Aria' Accompanied By Pizzicato 'Raindrops'<br/>2:34 - Fourth Concerto: 'Winter': A Sequence Of Simple Scales, Accompanied By Opening Rhythm<br/>2:35 - Fourth Concerto: 'Winter': Two Scalewise Ideas For The Price Of One, Foreground And Background<br/>2:36 - Fourth Concerto: 'Winter': New, Rising Scale-Pattern Unfurled With Ever-Greater Breadth<br/>2:37 - Fourth Concerto: 'Winter': The Pace Increases Eight-Fold In Concluding Downwards Scale<br/>2:38 - Fourth Concerto: 'Winter': Against An Unvarying Tempo, The Pace Is Repeatedly Varied<br/>2:39 - Fourth Concerto: 'Winter': Foreground/Background<br/>2:40 - Fourth Concerto: 'Winter': Detailed Discussion of Foreground/Background Perceptions, Analogies<br/>2:41 - Fourth Concerto: 'Winter': Second Movement (Complete)<br/>2:42 - Fourth Concerto: 'Winter': Scene-Setting; Soloist Begins For The First Time<br/>2:43 - Fourth Concerto: 'Winter': Soloist Rises Progressively, in Sequence, Decoratively Outlining Chord<br/>2:44 - Fourth Concerto: 'Winter': First Orchestral Section; Pace Is Halved; the Undermining Onset of<br/>2:45 - Fourth Concerto: 'Winter': The Walkers Lose Their Balance And Stylishly Fall Down<br/>2:46 - Fourth Concerto: 'Winter': Soloist Returns As the Original Solitary Walker and Strides Away from<br/>2:47 - Fourth Concerto: 'Winter': One Tempo, Two Rates of Speed: Fast for the Soloist, Slow for the<br/>2:48 - Fourth Concerto: 'Winter': Orchestra Evokes The Warm Winds Of The Sirocco<br/>2:49 - Fourth Concerto: 'Winter': Answering Blast from the Borea, the Cold Wind of the North; Struggle<br/>2:50 - Fourth Concerto: 'Winter': Cue To Final Movement<br/>2:51 - Fourth Concerto: 'Winter': Third Movement (Complete)<br/>
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