Structure
The Capricorn Concerto is designed like a Baroque concerto grosso and scored with the same instruments as Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2: three solo instruments—flute, oboe and trumpet—and strings. The piece is a departure from Barber's previous language, being neither atonal nor polytonal, but written in a contemporary tonal style. Rhythmically nervous with frequent shifts of tempi, it may be characterized as neo-classical and was strongly influenced by Stravinsky (Heyman 1992, 243).
The work has three movements:
- Allegro ma non troppo
- Allegretto
- Allegro con brio
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