Скачать или смотреть Winter (The Four Seasons, Vivaldi) [DUET] - Christmas Special! - Piano Transcription by DJDelta0

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Here's a Christmas special for you guys! It may not MLP, or FNAF, or anything we've done before, but we felt it would be a great challenge for us. Coming in at over nine minutes long, Vivaldi's Winter is the longest transcription I've ever done. The video is a little late because I was busy celebrating Christmas with my family. Kinda put the video off until the end of the day lol

This is one of my favorite classical pieces of all time. I first heard it when I was really little. It was being performed by some street performers who arranged it for xylophone. It was pretty dang awesome and I immediately fell in love with the piece. Skipping a few years later, I was able to listen to more of Vivaldi's work. I even played a few pieces by him in my school orchestra. Vivaldi was a Baroque composer, and it's pretty obvious through his work. His harmonies, melodies, patterns, everything create the stereotypical Baroque sound we've come to imagine when we think about Baroque music.

Since I was classically trained, my ear always gravitate towards consonance. Of course, there are those who prefer music that strays away from the old rules of consonance and composition. But whether you appreciate Vivaldi's music or not, it's clear he had a major impact on the development of Western music.

Transcribing the piece wasn't too difficult because the notes are already here. Orchestral scores for "Winter" can be found very easily, and so can piano arrangements. However, you can't just copy and paste all the original parts because many of the parts overlap with each other. The main trick was untangling everything to create a playable duet. I also had to turn some of the 32nd notes into 16th notes. It's extremely difficult to play the same note on a piano really fast. String players can do it very easily, but pianists can't.

The top part is definitely the harder one. The bottom part is usually clunking away with octaves while the top part has all the crazy melodies. If you want to attempt this duet, I'd say a beginner/intermediate player can do the bottom part while an intermediate/expert player can do the top.

Anyways, Merry Christmas (or whatever holiday you celebrate) and happy holidays!