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

Composer

Antonio Vivaldi

Key

A Minor

Nationality

Italian


Time Signature

4/4

Stylistic Period

Level

6

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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