Entertainment / Music / Concerto: A composition written for a solo instrument. The soloist plays the melody while the orchestra plays the accompaniment.
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Entertainment / Music / Concerto Grosso: Baroque concerto type based on the opposition between a small group of solo instruments (the concertino) and orchestra (the ripieno). MORE
Entertainment / Music / Concerto Form: Structure commonly used in first movements of concertos that combines elements of Baroque ritornello procedure with sonata-allegro form. Also first-movement concerto form. MORE
Entertainment / Music / Cadenza: Initially an improvised cadence by a soloist: later becoming an elaborate and written out passage in an aria or concerto, featuring the skills of an instrumentalist or vocalist. MORE
Entertainment / Music / Ripieno: The larger of the two ensembles in the Baroque concerto grosso. Also tutti. MORE
Entertainment / Music / Concertino: Solo group of instruments in the Baroque concerto grosso. MORE
Entertainment / Music / Sonata Cycle: General term describing the multimovement structure found in sonatas, string quartets, symphonies, concertos and large-scale works of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. MORE