Why is it when I listen to Vivaldi’s “Winter” concerto No.4 in F minor, RV297…?

Question

I don’t feel cold…I feel warm a cozy?

Answer 1

Probably because music from the Baroque period makes most people feel warm and cozy. It's the music that is most familiar to our Western ears ie the music focuses on the major and minor scales (eg Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier). The Baroque period starts around 1600 and that's when using major and minor for composition came to be the norm. In fact, a criterion for music composition. The other thing about the Baroque period that makes us so comfortable is that composers were no longer using polyphony, and early on composed in monody, which is very familiar to the Western ear (a melodic line with accompanying continuo). This led to the ever-so-familiar Baroque concerto, oratorio, etc (eg Pachelbel's Canon in D--is there an emoticon for gagging?).

Another factor, is that most of Vivaldi's music is warm and cozy... after all, he really only composed about four themes (all warm and cozy) and he used them over, and over, and over......
(How about an emoticon for exhaling a bunch of hot air?)

Answer 2

year ago, a music history professor told our class that the middle movement of "Winter" portrays sitting in front of a nice fire, inside a cozy house, and looking out the window at the winter weather. Maybe you're thinking similarly!

Answer 3

Well if I was in San Diego, I would feel warm and cozy too! Its like 20 degrees here. NO fair!

Answer 4

the music is supposed to be nice, therefore not make you feel cold i.e. bad.
anyway: if you feel cold/warm has nothing to do with music but with the weather in your environment.

=)

just so u know, it makes me feel warm as well, its nice music.

Answer 5

Yet another example of the power of paradox.