My first circumstantial listening or contact with this classical, instrutmental music, which dates back to 1725, is one subconsciously by accident. More times than I can count, I recall hearing this music in classical and modern movies. This music usually played the foreground position to the smiling faces of people who ballroom danced in unison or the background music, which was played for the queen and her subjects as they gathered on a joyous ocassion, like a wedding. Nonetheless, the music causes me to envision very classy, elegant and wealthy people wearing their best gowns and three piece suits as they gallop and courtesy around the palace. This music certainly, did not make me feel sad or full of sorrow as did Richard Wagner's very solitude piece, which was outlined in class.
             Infact Vivaldi's piece, First movement or introduction of Spring from his masterpiece The Four Seasons, was very similar to Franz Haydn's Symphony 51, which is full of high energy and unmistakable highs and lows. However, where Symphony 51 seems to be rather unorganized, the Spring introduction appears to be a combination of structured dance music, that is rythmically predictable. Similiar to The Sea Interlude by Benjamin Britten, the textural value of Antonio Vivaldi's first movement into Spring is simple, because it is the clear soundof the violin and strings flourishing, as oppose to many instrutments intertwining at once. Unlike Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, which is midway between being simple and extremely complex and expresses a series of ideas, Vivaldi's music has a clear goal and contains gesture, which is responsible for the whole classical, ballroom dancing atmosphere.
             Vivaldi's music is greatly respected and appreciated because, not only does it sound appealing to the ear for nonmusicians to understand, but it also causes the listener to feel good because this music is enormously uplifting and positive. Certainly one, is familiar with ong...