Vivaldi s Autumn Seasonings

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1 Kjos String Orchestra Grade ull Conductor Score SO3 $7.00 Antonio Vivaldi Deborah Baker Monday Arranger SA M PL E Vivaldi s Autumn Seasonings Neil A. Kjos Music Comany Publisher

2 The Arranger Deborah Baker Monday continues to teach in the aard-inning Logan City Utah orchestra rogram. She received her B.M.E. magna cum laude rom lorida State University ith an emhasis in string education. She as aarded an academic elloshi to attend the University o Alabama here she received her M.M. in Comosition. She continued her studies at Louisiana State University here she received the Chancellor s Aard to articiate ith the LSU symhony orchestra under the direction o James Yestadt. She has studied theory and comosition ith Harold Schiman John Boda rederic Goossen Paul Hedall and Dinos Constantinides. Ms. Monday continued to be an active bass erormer hen she moved to Utah. Ater comleting the courseork and assing the ritten and oral ortions o the doctoral exams she as hired to teach in the Logan City School District as a lo string secialist. During her tenure ith Logan she has ursued her interest in comosition and arranging or educational strings. This has been a rearding art o her career hile she and her husband Bill have raised our amazing children. Ms. Monday has resented at numerous state music conerences throughout America as ell as several national ASTA conventions and the Midest Clinic. She is very active as a guest conductor and adjudicator and has received aards and commissions or her ork. Her studies in comosition and exerience in string teaching combine to make her one o the leading contributors to the reertoire or young string layers. The Arrangement In this unique arrangement students ill have the oortunity to lay the same iece in to dierent styles. The theme rom Vivaldi s Autumn aears irst in a standard string orchestra setting (transosed rom the original key o to D major or the younger layers). This irst version could very ell stand alone as a concert selection eaturing students in a traditional Baroque context. They ill learn about Baroque articulations metronomic rhythms terrace dynamics and clean harmonies. The second version o this arrangement is dedicated to a dierent musical style. The notes o the original Autumn aear somehat the same but in a dierent recie. The rhythm in Seasoned Vivaldi takes on a sing eel the harmonies are enriched and the articulations ill robably take on a lie o their on. Other melodic deviations (imrovisations) occur hich take it even urther rom the original hile alays coming back to the highly recognizable theme that deines the iece. Many grous have emerged recently rom the music conservatories ith classically-trained layers ho have chosen to add some alternative styles o laying to their music. (or examle Time or Three Barrage Piano Guys Yo Yo Ma s Silk Road Project and Mark O Connor.) Students should be encouraged to exlore some o the grous ho are art o this usion o musical styles. Hoeully they ill eel insired to both master the original versions o their ieces and start thinking outside o the box as ell. Instrumentation List (Set C) 8 st Violin 8 nd Violin 5 3 rd Violin (Viola T.C.) 5 Viola 5 5 String Bass Piano (ot.) (ot.) ull Conductor Score Additional scores and arts are available. To hear a recording o this iece or any other Kjos ublication lease visit.kjos.com. SO3

3 3 Learning Bank: Antonio Vivaldi and The our Seasons Baroque comoser Antonio Vivaldi (678-74) as born in Venice Italy. In his youth he as recognized as a violin master. He as also a Catholic riest earning him the nickname The Red Priest because o his iery red hair. He sent most o his career as musical director or a girl s orhanage in Venice here he as resonsible or teaching music directing student ensembles and riting music or his students. This makes him unique among major Baroque comosers: instead o creating most o his music or a church ealthy atrons or royalty the main erormers and audiences o Vivaldi s music ere disadvantaged girls and young omen. E Vivaldi comosed a large amount o music in his lie including about 50 oeras 90 sonatas and over 500 concertos! His music is marked by its elegance and grace and he as an early ioneer o both orchestration (the crat o combining instruments together to orm melodies and harmonies) and rogram music (instrumental music that describes something or tells a story). Vivaldi as also an imortant igure in the develoment o tonality hich is the system o musical organization still common today. Tonal music relies on key centers (or examle C major) and hierarchies o itch to create the sensation o tension and release. (Imagine or examle the Hay Birthday song: sing it through in your head but leave o the last note. Doesn t it sound like it ants to resolve to the last note? Tonality lays a major role in this eeling.) Almost all o the music you kno including oular music is tonal and Vivaldi layed a art in making this haen. PL Ater his death in 74 Vivaldi s music as largely orgotten. In the 0th century hoever musicians began to rediscover the music o this Baroque master and he quickly came to be areciated as one o the most signiicant comosers o his era. Vivaldi s oular revival as driven signiicantly by just one o his ieces: The our Seasons. SA M Vivaldi rote his most amous comosition in 73. The iece consists o our violin concertos (music or a violin soloist lus orechestra) one deicting each season o the year. The our Seasons musically ortrays a ide variety o real-orld events and henomena associated ith the seasons including a thunderstorm singing birds a hunting arty a babbling brook and the atter o rain. It reaveals a sensitive understanding o nature transorming the changing seasons into musical oetry. Today The our Seasons is one o the most ell-loved ieces o classical music ith over 000 recordings and regular erormances around the orld. SO3

4 4 Autumn Traditional version rom The our Seasons ull Conductor Score Arox. time :5 Violins Viola String Bass Piano (ot.) 7 & & B 7 & & c & c B c c c & c c Allegro {q = 44} L 4 detached detached detached detached detached Allegro {q = 44} detached Antonio Vivaldi Arranged by Deborah Baker Monday SO3 04 Neil A. Kjos Music Comany 438 Jutland Drive San Diego Caliornia 97. International coyright secured. All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A. WARNING! The contents o this ublication are rotected by coyright la. To coy or reroduce them by any method is an inringement o the coyright la. Anyone ho reroduces coyrighted matter is subject to substantial enalties and assessments or each inringement.

5 5 3 & & B 3 & 9 & & B & SO3

6 6 5 & & B & 3 & & B & 35 SO3

7 7 38 & & B & 45 & & B Rit & 47 Rit. SO3

8 8 Seasoned Vivaldi Arox. time :00 & Singing vivace {q = c 66} c A. Vivaldi Arr. by D. B. Monday 6 Violins & c Viola String Bass Piano (ot.) (ot.) 7 & & B & B c c izz. c c c c Singing vivace {q = c 66} Singing vivace {q = c 66} 8 Hi-hat (closed) P & 03 Neil A. Kjos Music Comany 438 Jutland Drive San Diego Caliornia 97. SO3

9 9 3 & & B n izz. & 9 & & B 0 S. Cym. S.D. B.D. n n L n - arco b L arco - b 4 & n b 3 3 SO3

10 0 5 & & B L - 0 n & 3 & & B 3 izz. n izz. 3 & 3 SO3

11 37 & & B L n n & 43 & & B & n n n 45 arco arco cresc. oco a oco cresc. oco a oco cresc. oco a oco SO3

12 & & B & & & B izz n izz. n 55 & n 55 SO3

13 3 6 & & B & & & B arco n 7 7 arco 4 67 & 67 SO3

14 4 73 & & B & 79 & & B Rit. 84 & 80 Rit. 80 Rit. æ SO3

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