Stylistic features of Vivaldi’s bassoon concerti
Stylistic features of Vivaldi’s bassoon concerti

Summary/Abstract: The architectural pattern of the Vivaldi concertos follows the plan of the overturein Italian style, with a fast-slow-fast structure, which the composer loosens, each of thesesections becoming a part with its own development. Vivaldi is the composer who gave aunitary and coherent form to the instrumental concerto, later crystallized in Classicism:tripartite structure, agogic alternation, melodic inventiveness, rhythmic richness, balancebetween expressiveness and virtuosity. The formal structure, in itself, is dependent on thetonal factor and consists in the configuration of a unitary thematic block, moved in varioustonalities related to the initial one.

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