Concerto in A Major RV 340
Composer
Key
A Major, A Minor
Nationality
Italian
Time Signature
4/4, 12/8, 3/8
Annotation
Movement I
Key: A Major
Range: A3-F#6
Tempo: Allegro [non troppo]
Time Signature: 4/4
Left Hand
- Melodic sequencing shifts from 1st – 3rd – 4th- 5th-7th position
- 7 measures 5th-7th – 8th position sixteenth note passage, bariolage then played an octave lower in first position
- Trills
- Both editions of this piece have passages with ornamentation and performance practice for the realization are written out.
Bowing
- Bariolage
- Martelé
Rhythm
- Alternating beat division from duple to triple in passages
Movement II
Key: A Minor
Range: G#4-E6
Tempo: Tempo di Siciliano
Time Signature: 12/8
Left Hand
- 1st – 3rd positions
- 2 natural harmonics or 4th finger extensions
Bowing
- Legato bowing
Rhythm
- Dotted eighth, sixteenth, eighth – main rhythm pattern throughout
Movement III
Key: A Major
Range: A3-A6
Tempo: Allegro
Time Signature: 3/8
Left Hand
- Rapid sixteenth note passages
- Trills
- 21 measures – triplet arpeggios up down using the notes Vivaldi wrote as sixteenths.
- Double stops – 3rds, 5ths, 6ths, 7ths
- Mostly in 1st, 2nd and 3rd position with a couple passages in 5th
- 3 measure 7th position
- Cadenza – double-stop eighth notes;
Bowing
- Bariolage
- Martelé
- Detaché Ponté
- Spiccato – single notes and double stops
Rhythm
- Sixteenth note triplet passages – 21 measures
- Eighth notes tied over the barline
- Cadenza – Time Signature change to 3/4
Recording
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