Concerto in A minor, Op. 9, No. 5, RV 358

Movement I

Range: G3 – E6

Key: A Minor

Tempo: Opens with 5 measure Adagio; Presto

Time Signature: 2/4

Left Hand

• 1st-4th positions
• Sequence patterns using shifting down through positions
• Bariolage 16th note passage uses 1st, 2nd and 3rd position, includes accidentals 
• 15 measures of triple stop eighth notes

Bowing

• Rapid string crossings
• Slurred bariolage – alternating between E and A strings for 1 beat, then D and A string for another beat; Then moving to A and D strings alternation with D and G strings.
• Detaché porté
• Martelé

Rhythm

• Ties over the barline
• Switching from triple to duple with a passage of triplet eighth notes with some measures of eighths

Movement II

Range: A4 – B5

Key: A minor

Tempo: Largo

Left Hand

• A harmonic minor scale passages
• 1st – 3rd positions
• Trills and turns

Bowing

• Baroque style legato

Movement III

Range: G3 – G6

Key: A Minor

Tempo: Allegro

Left Hand

• 1st – 5th positions
• Trills
• Double stop 3rds
• Broken third runs
• Sixteenth note arpegios
• E minor arpeggios in sixteenth notes followed by quarter note trill
• Arpeggiated chords fingered using 3 strings shifting through 3rd, 4th, 5th positions

Bowing

• Rapid string crossings with large leaps sometimes crossing 3 and 4 strings
• Rapid Sixteenth note passages
• Detaché Porté
• Bariolage
• Arpeggiated chords across 3 strings in sixteenth notes – slurred notes from E – A – D – A strings
• 4 sets of triplet sixteenth notes slurred
• Martelé

Rhythm

• Syncopated passage – off-beat quarter notes for 4 measures using ties over the barline.
• Triplet sixteenths