Concerto in A minor, Op. 9, No. 5, RV 358
Composer
Key
A Minor
Nationality
Italian
Time Signature
4/4
LISTING
Annotation
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
Recording
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look inside | Concerto in A minor, RV 358 (Opus 9, No. 5) Composed by Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741). Edited by Louis Kaufman. Published by International Music Company (IM.3395). |
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