{"id":219,"date":"2020-09-27T21:16:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T04:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/littles\/?p=219"},"modified":"2020-09-27T21:16:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T04:16:04","slug":"the-season-of-autumn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/littles\/2020\/09\/27\/the-season-of-autumn\/","title":{"rendered":"The Season of Autumn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a previous post I provided historical information about the composer Antonio Vivaldi. As the weather changes from the season of summer I will focus upon his third movement of the famous &#8220;The Four Seasons&#8221; &#8211; Autumn. This movement, written in 1720 at the height of the Baroque period, has three sections:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>a country dance at a harvest festival (fast in tempo)<\/li>\n<li>hearing the cooler air of the season arrive (slow in tempo)<\/li>\n<li>a Baroque hunt through the woods (fast in tempo)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>He wrote this sonnet to accompany this movement:<\/p>\n<p><i>Allegro<\/i><br \/>\nThe peasant celebrates with song and dance the harvest safely gathered in.<br \/>\nThe cup of Bacchus flows freely, and many find their relief in deep slumber.<\/p>\n<p><i>Adagio molto<\/i><br \/>\nThe singing and the dancing die away<br \/>\nas cooling breezes fan the pleasant air,<br \/>\ninviting all to sleep<br \/>\nwithout a care.<\/p>\n<p><i>Allegro<\/i><br \/>\nThe hunters emerge at dawn,<br \/>\nready for the chase,<br \/>\nwith horns and dogs and cries.<br \/>\nTheir quarry flees while they give chase.<br \/>\nTerrified and wounded, the prey struggles on,<br \/>\nbut, harried, dies.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"VIVALDI &quot;The Four Seasons&quot; -  Autumn\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q8AN0jWNrJA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For further historical information behind Vivaldi writing &#8220;The Four Seasons&#8221; I\u00a0 present in this illustrated children&#8217;s book. Listen carefully and you will discover not only why the composition was written and but for what ensemble.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vivaldi\u2019s Four Seasons\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SwiMwdTxqgI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Although the original composition is written for string orchestra more modern ensembles have incorporated different instruments to replicate the famous third movement of &#8220;Autumn.&#8221; Here is a different string ensemble playing this composition.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vivaldi`s Four Seasons: Autumn I - Allegro, by Sinfonity\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zcJDgrWNWgE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I will complete this post with one last version of &#8220;Autumn&#8221; that is accompanied by illustrations of fall foliage. Perhaps you could also create your own visuals while listening to this movement.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vivaldi--The 4 Seasons--AUTUMN\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mgSoWBgcpio?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a previous post I provided historical information about the composer Antonio Vivaldi. As the weather changes from the season of summer I will focus upon his third movement of the famous &#8220;The Four Seasons&#8221; &#8211; Autumn. This movement, written in 1720 at the height of the Baroque period, has three sections: a country dance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10054,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/littles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/littles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/littles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/littles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10054"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/littles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/littles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/littles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/littles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/littles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/littles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}