…Le Quattro Stagioni…

It is Italian language. When it is translated to English it means the four seasons; summer, winter, spring and autumn. The four seasons here are a set of four violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi. It is a kind of baroque music and it is very famous and well-known since 1723. Why it is called the four seasons is because each concerto resembles each seasons. There is a different between all the four concertos that it distinguishes one season to another from the variety of instruments played in various notes.

If Dr.Edwin does not provide us the material I certain that I will probably not knowing about it at all. This kind of music is really not within youngsters’ interests but it is a piece of music that gives pleasure to anyone who listens to it. When listening to Vivaldi’s I can hear the rise and low of the notes that varied from the beginning to the middle of the concerto. There is also the sound of thunderstorm-like that I guess maybe describing one of the seasons.

It is some kind of stress-relieving session when we are to listen to the concertos. But when it comes to listen to the poems read by some speakers with background music, I feel quite tense. It is because it is hard for me to actually catch up the words the speakers read aloud and there are a few of poems being read that I can hear them quite well such as “Sonnets” and some others. In a nutshell i think that it is good to bring this kind of music into the literature classroom but when too overloaded with it, students may get stressful and bored out of the situation.

*Dr.Edwin admits that he has overdosed and overindulged us with that piece of Baroque music ^-^