ABSTRACT
The text that appears in the score is from an anonymous poem that Vivaldi may have written himself, and that he certainly used to explain the imagery he intended to evoke in his music. In this movement, he uses the first eight lines of the sonnet, which describe images of nature. The remaining six lines are divided between the second and third movements, which depict, respectively, a goatherd sleeping under a tree, and nymphs and shepherds dancing to the sound of bagpipes.
