介绍:
~~~ Audio: THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING ADVENTURE （小爱因斯坦 Little Einsteins S01E21）mp3
~~~ Story: The kids were shrinked by accident. They got to drive their rocketship to find the missing piece of the big-and-small machine back so as to turned them big as they were.
~~~ Music: Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (1678-1741) | Violin concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 8, RV 269, "Spring"
（安东尼奥·卢奇奥·维瓦尔第 | E大调小提琴协奏曲（四季）第一乐章：春）
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The Four Seasons is a collection of four violin concertos depicting scenes appropriate for each season. Three of the concerti are of original conception, while the first, "Spring", borrows motifs from a Sinfonia*(2) in the first act of his contemporaneous opera Il Giustino.
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The arrangement of Spring, the 1st movement of the Four Seasons:
Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 8, RV 269, "Spring" (La primavera)
Allegro (in E major)
Largo e pianissimo sempre (in C sharp minor)
Allegro pastorale (in E major)
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Sonnet Text of Spring：
Springtime is upon us.
The birds celebrate her return with festive song,
and murmuring streams are
softly caressed by the breezes.
Thunderstorms, those heralds of Spring, roar,
casting their dark mantle over heaven,
Then they die away to silence,
and the birds take up their charming songs once more.
Largo
On the flower-strewn meadow, with leafy branches
rustling overhead, the goat-herd sleeps,
his faithful dog beside him.
Allegro
Led by the festive sound of rustic bagpipes,
nymphs and shepherds lightly dance
beneath the brilliant canopy of spring.
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* Note:
(1) virtuoso 音乐美术界的大师
A virtuoso (from Italian virtuoso [vir?two?zo] or [virtu?o?so], "virtuous", Late Latin virtuosus, Latin virtus, "virtue", "excellence", "skill", or "manliness") is an individual who possesses outstanding technical ability in a particular art or field such as fine arts, music, singing, playing a musical instrument, or composition. This word also refers to a person who has cultivated appreciation of artistic excellence, either as a connoisseur or collector. The plural form of virtuoso is either virtuosi or the Anglicisation, virtuosos, and the feminine forms are virtuosa and virtuose.
According to Music in the Western civilization by Piero Weiss and Richard Taruskin:
...a virtuoso was, originally, a highly accomplished musician, but by the nineteenth century the term had become restricted to performers, both vocal and instrumental, whose technical accomplishments were so pronounced as to dazzle the public.
(2) Sinfonia （巴罗克式音乐的）管弦乐曲（尤指歌剧、大合唱或组曲的序曲）
Sinfonia (IPA: [si?fo?ni?a]) is the Italian word for symphony, from the Latin symphonia, in turn derived from Ancient Greek symphōnia (agreement or concord of sound), from the prefix σ?ν (together) and ?ων? (sound). In English it most commonly refers to a 17th- or 18th-century orchestral piece used as an introduction, interlude, or postlude to an opera, oratorio, cantata, or suite (Abate 1999, who gives the origin of the word as Italian) (Lotha and the Editors of the Encyclopedia Britannica n.d.). The word is also found in other Romance languages such as Spanish or Portuguese.
In short, sinfonia, in baroque music, is an orchestral piece used as an introduction to an opera古典音乐流派的歌剧作品, oratorio 清唱剧,神剧(著名的例子有德国Bach(巴*)的《圣诞清唱》，亨德尔的 以及海顿的 )，cantata康塔塔(一种有独唱的中等长度的叙述或描述音乐,一般还配有合唱和管弦乐队演奏), or suite 组曲（由三个或更多相关部分组，各乐章的结合比较自由，每乐章都有相对的独-立性）.
~~~ Pictures by Vincent Van Gogh (举例见音频配图):
We have seen "Wheat field with cypresses" by Van Gogh. Now we see other three pictures by him as follows.
a) Roses and Sunflowers, 1886 Oil on canvas, 50 × 61 cm, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
b) Sunflowers (F375), Oil on canvas, 43.2 x 61 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
c) Sunflowers (F456), third version: blue green background Oil on canvas, 91 × 72 cm, Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
