| A scramble for the flowers, then out at the gate and on to the next house, and so da capo. |
| This movement has an ABA formal structure and the da capo has been reduced in this recording to a repeat of the first tutti. |
| And so the last air, with its da capo, magnificently ends the important cycle of four French cantatas illustrating the seasons. |
| The free elements of the composition take the forms customary at the time: da capo arias are predominant. |
| An adaptation of the Italian cantata, with its rather linear succession of recitatives and da capo arias, the French form quickly departed from the original model, and became freer. |
| As an exception, one finds forms here which do not fit into the standard patterns of secco recitative and da capo aria. |
