Winter Largo (Vivaldi) kalimba tabs

How to read this tab

• Numbers are steps of the scale. 1 is C, 2 is D, up to 7 for B. A dot above a number means one octave higher; two dots, two octaves higher. The song starts 1̇ 5̇ 4̇ 3̇ 2̇ 1̇ 2̇ 5 (C5 G5 F5 E5 D5 C5 D5 G4).
• Gaps mark bars. Each group is one bar of music. The tab shows which tine to play, not how long to hold it; press Listen on the play-along page to hear the rhythm.
• Other kalimbas. On an 8-, 10- or 21-key kalimba in C the numbers mean the same notes, as long as the tines you need are there.

About the song

The slow middle movement of “Winter” from Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, published in 1725. The melody is in the public domain.

About this tab

• What it covers. The solo violin melody of the Largo, first phrase (bars 1-8); rests are folded into the note before.
• Key. C major (the original is in E-flat major).
• Simplified. Bars 5 and 6 use a sharpened note (A natural in E-flat, F sharp here) as a lower neighbour; a kalimba in C has no F sharp, so it is played as F. The trill is left out.
• Source. Transcribed from Mutopia Project “L’Inverno” (Concerto Op. 8 No. 4), solo violin part, second movement (Largo), bars 1-8 (a typeset shared under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 licence).