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Vivaldi - L'Estate (Summer) - III Presto
José Rodríguez Alvira
The third movement is based on this text:
Alas, his fears were justified
The Heavens thunder and roar and with hail
Cut the head off the wheat and damages the grain..
Vivaldi again uses the ritornello structure in this movement (click on the sections to examine them):
Section
Measures
Key
197 - 236
G minor and D minor
The semiquaver movement effectively communicates the fears, thunder and hail described in the sonnet. We end modulating to D minor.
This ritornello uses four musical ideas:
Motive m1 (197 - 205). Note the resemblance between this motive and the m3 of the first movement:
Motive m2 (206 - 214):
Motive m3 (217 - 224):
Motive m4 (228 - 233):
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236 - 251
D minor
The movement follows in sixteenth notes in the first solo section.
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251 - 270
D minor, G minor, F major, Bb major and C minor
A harmonic march with new melodic material takes us to C minor. The motives of the first ritornello reappear:
Motive m2 on the low strings (measures 251 to 259).
Motive m3 in measures 260 to 262.
Motive m4 in measures 263 to 265.
Motive m1 in measures 266 to 269.
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270 - 281
C minor, Eb major, Bb major and C minor
This section develops the m4 motif of the ritornello.
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281 - 293
C minor and G minor
Ritornello in C minor uses the m1 motive with chromatic variations.
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293 - 298
G minor
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298 - 305
G minor
This ritornello develops the m2 motif:
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293 - 298
G minor
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298 - 305
G minor
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