Concerto in G Minor, Op. 12 No. 1, RV 317

Composer/ Arranger

Antonio Vivaldi/ Natchez

Key

G Minor

Nationality

Italian


Time Signature

Multiple

Annotation

Movement I

Key: G Minor

Time Signature: 2/4

Range: G3-F6

Tempo: Allegro

Left Hand
  • 1st, 2nd, 3rd position
  • Rapid shifting
  • 1 measure of 5th position
  • Trills
  • Fingered double-stop 5th with trill
Bowing
  • Detachè Porté
  • Martellato passage
  • Accented Detaché
  • Martelé
  • Sixteenth passages, first sixteenth separate, middle 2 sixteenths slurred, last sixteenth separate
  • Slurs crossing beats and over bar lines.
  • Echo phrases
  • 2 eighth notes slurred both with accents
Rhythm
  • Triplet sixteenth notes
  • Triplet eighth notes
Movement II

Key: G minor

Time Signature: 3/4

Range: G3 – Eb6

Tempo: Adagio

Left Hand
  • 1st, 2nd and 3rd positions
  • Optional shifting into 4th and 5th position for 1 measure
  • Turns
  • Trills
  • Grace notes that are realized as eighth notes
Bowing
  • Legato
  • Long slow bows over 2 beats
  • Detaché Ponté
Rhythm
  • 32nd notes
Movement III

Key: G minor

Time Signature: 3/8

Range: G3 – Bb5

Tempo: Allegro

Left Hand
  • 1st, 2nd 3rd, and 4th positions
  • Optional shift to 4th position or 4th finger extension for Eb6
  • Trills
  • Grace notes that are realized as eighth notes
  • Melodic sequences that move from 3rd – 2nd – 1st positions
Bowing
  • Accented detaché
  • Martelé
  • Detaché lancé
  • Detaché louré
  • 3 slurred eighth notes, each with an accent
  • Sixteenth note passages with weak beat note initiating slur into strong beat with a 1 separate bow between slurs
  • Sixteenth note triplets with the 2nd two notes of the triplet slurred to the first note of the next triplet.
Rhythm
  • Ties over the barline
  • Triplet sixteenth notes

Recording

Sheet Music

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