The Four Seasons and Other Violin Concertos in Full Score: Opus 8, Complete

by Antonio Vivaldi

Book Overview

Vivaldi's violin concertos called "The Four Seasons" are one of the best known and loved collections of string music in our time. Their programmatic nature, based on the lines of sonnets printed along with the music, brings seasonal sights and sounds readily and delightfully to the ear: the bird calls in "Spring," the swarm of wasps in "Summer," the hunters' horns in "Autumn," the winds and icy snow of "Winter."
This volume contains these wonderfully...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 048628638X
• ISBN13: 9780486286389
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.4" x 11.0"