Concerto in D minor, RV 394

Composer

Antonio Vivaldi

Key

D Minor

Nationality

Italian


Time Signature

4/4

Stylistic Period

Level

5

Annotation

Movement I

Key: D minor

Range: C#3-Bb5

Tempo: Allegro

Time Signature: 4/4

Left Hand

  • Trills
  • 1st – 3rd position
  • Rapid runs – stepwise motion

Bowing

  • Staccato detaché
  • Detaché porté
  • Rapid Detaché
  • Louré (minimal)

Rhythm

  • Simple syncopation – eighth, quarter, eighth
  • 32nd and 64th note runs
Movement II

Key: D minor

Range: A4-C5

Tempo: Largo

Time Signature: 12/8

Left Hand

  • Trills
  • 1st – 3rd position
  • 2 32nd note runs – A natural minor scale

Bowing

  • Legato detaché
  • Sixteenth notes slurred in groups of 3

Rhythm

  • Dotted eighth sixteenth rhythm
  • 32nd note runs
Movement III

Key: D minor

Range: A3-C6

Tempo: Allegro

Time Signature: 2/4

Left Hand

  • 1st – 3rd position
  • Trills on 16th notes, 8th notes, and quarter notes
  • Rapid runs – stepwise motion
  • 4 measures of double stops: 2 measures using an open string and 1 finger; 2 measures with fingered double stops.

Bowing

  • Staccato detaché
  • Detaché porté
  • Rapid Detaché

Rhythm

  • Simple syncopation – eighth, quarter, eighth
  • 16th note triplet runs

Recording

Sheet Music

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look inside Concerto in re minore per viola d'amore (o violi Per viola d'amore (o violino), archi e cembalo RV 394 (F. II. No. 2, P.V. 288). By Oliver Nagy. By Pal Lukacs and Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741). Baroque. Book Only. 36 pages. Editio Musica Budapest #EMBZ4154. Published by Editio Musica Budapest (HL.50485741).

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