Concerto in A Major RV 340

Key

A Major, A Minor

Nationality

Italian


Time Signature

4/4, 12/8, 3/8

Stylistic Period

Level

LISTING

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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