Talk:Antonio Vivaldi
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I'm not sure about the music therapy (not musicotherapy in English) bit. Is it relevant or should it be in a separate article? It isn't really about Vivaldi, or is it? Nevilley
Funnily enough, I was just about to comment on the same thing, in particular this part:
- The reason for this selection seems to be based on the particular use these composers made (supposedly, unaware of it) of the frequencies between 5,000 and 8,000 hertz (these frequencies are presumed to produce a deep alignment of the cerebral emispheres, resulting in an optimal cerebral frequency).
Now, by my very quick mental calculation, 5000Hz is about four octaves above middle C, 8000 is roughly five octaves above middle C. None of these composers used notes in that range (certainly not with any regularity, probably not at all). It's true that these frequencies would be present as harmonics in their music, but then that's true of every other composer as well. I'll move this sentence out of the article, therefore, and I'm tempted to move the whole paragraph out, but music therapy isn't my thing, so I'll chicken out of that. If you or somebody else wants to move it, though, I certainly won't complain (though actually, it doesn't look bad now the above has been taken out). --Camembert
I would add a mention of Opus 3 "L'estro armonico". It was a milestone in Baroque music all over Europe. LeoViv
Vivaldi's "symphonies"
I think that, in the listing of works, "symphonies" should be changed to "sinfonias" or "sinfonie" (the Italian plural of "sinfonia", I believe) or something, since the word "symphony" in our modern parlance carries a meaning that did not exist for Vivaldi in the 17th and early 18th centuries.