Le quattro stagioni (“The Four Seasons”) is a world renowned group of four violin concerti by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi. Each of them gives musical expression to a season of the year. Vivaldi related his music to poetry, translating the poetic lines themselves directly into the music on the page. The concerti therefore stand as one of the earliest and most detailed examples of music with a narrative element.
They were written and published during the early 8th century in Amsterdam, but the inspiration for the concertos was probably the countryside around Mantua, where Vivialdi was living at the time. They were a revolution in musical conception:
in them Vivaldi represented flowing creeks, singing birds (of different species, each specifically characterized), a shepherd and his barking dog, buzzing flies, storms, drunken dancers, hunting parties from both the hunters' and the prey's point of view, frozen landscapes, and warm winter fires.
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L’objectiu d’aquest exercici de dues parts era aconseguir una composició gràfica que contrasti amb a la música clàssica barroca. En una primera part, havíem de representar el concert de Primavera només amb formes geomètriques senzilles en blanc o negre. En la segona part, havíem d’afegir una gamma cromàtica reduïda a la mateixa composició. La meva doble proposta d’estil minimalista es construeix a partir de formes que pretenen recordar símbols de l’estació primaverenca com una flor i un ocell.
The goal of this two-part exercise was to create a graphic composition that contrasts with classical Baroque music. In the first part, we had to represent the Spring concerti only with geometrical shapes in white or black. In the second part, we had to color the designed composition with a reduced chromatic range.
My double proposal of minimalist style is build by shapes which aim to remember symbols of the spring season like a flower and a bird.
Created during my studies at Image Processing and Multimedia Technology Centre, Terrassa-Barcelona
Original photographs by Joanna Nix, Loren Gu and Catalin Balta
