The Four Seasons (Italian title: Le quattro stagioni) is a collection of four violin concerti written by the Italian Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi. Each concerto is meant to give out a musical expression representing a season of the year. It was published in 1725.
It is also the music used in the episodes, "O Yes, O Yes, It's Springtime!" and "The Incredible Shrinking Adventure".
Summary[]
In O Yes, O Yes, It's Springtime, The Four Seasons Concerto was used to sing O Yes O Yes It's Springtime.
In The Incredible Shrinking Adventure, The Four Seasons Concerto was used to sing to find the missing piece of the big and small machine.
Structure[]
The following concertos that are part of the Four Seasons used in Little Einsteins are as follows:
The Four Seasons[]
- Concerto No. 1 in E Major, "Spring", RV 269
- I. Allegro (in E major)
- Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, "Summer", RV 315
- I. Allegro non molto (in G minor)
- Concerto No. 3 in F Major, "Autumn", RV 293
- I. Allegro (in F major)
- Concerto No. 4 in F Minor, "Winter", RV 297
- I. Allegro non molto (in F minor)
- III. Allegro (in F minor)
Episode Appearances[]
Season 1[]
Book Appearances[]
Songs adapted from The Four Seasons[]
O Yes, O Yes, It's Springtime![]
The Incredible Shrinking Adventure[]
Trivia[]
- This is the only musical piece by Antonio Vivaldi to be used in the entire series, as it only appears in two episodes of Season 1.
- The "Spring" concerto borrows patterns from a sinfonia in the first act of Vivaldi's contemporaneous opera Il Giustino.
In popular culture[]
- As it is Vivaldi's most famous works, it has been heard throughout popular culture.
- Some of the concertos were used in two videos and three CDs of Baby Einstein, as well as one video and one CD from its spiritual successor series, WeeSchool.
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