The philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau arranged the first of these musical compositions for solo flute.
The philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau arranged the first of these musical compositions for solo flute. In that piece's second movement, a repeated two-note figure in the viola represents a dog barking, and in the first movement of the third, the soloist depicts a drunkard. Each of these pieces has an accompanying sonnet that accounts for specific musical details, such as the tremolos representing thunder and high trills representing birdcalls in the first. Included in the composer's collection The Contest Between Harmony and Invention, for 10 points, identify this set of four violin concertos written by Antonio Vivaldi and named after times of the year.
The philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau arranged the first of these musical compositions for solo flute.
The Four Seasons or Le quattro stagioni [I guess accept The Contest Between Harmony and Invention or Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione before "sonnet"]