Stylistic features of Vivaldi’s bassoon concerti

Abstract

The architectural pattern of the Vivaldi concertos follows the plan of the overture in Italian style, with a fast-slow-fast structure, which the composer loosens, each of these sections becoming a part with its own development. Vivaldi is the composer who gave a unitary and coherent form to the instrumental concerto, later crystallized in Classicism: tripartite structure, agogic alternation, melodic inventiveness, rhythmic richness, balance between expressiveness and virtuosity. The formal structure, in itself, is dependent on the tonal factor and consists in the configuration of a unitary thematic block, moved in various tonalities related to the initial one.