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concerto - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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Noun
concerto (plural concertos or concerti)
- (music) A piece of music for one or more solo instruments and orchestra.
- ✤ And the cello concerto was strikingly different on Sunday: at Weill, the ensemble included two violinists and one violist, cellist, bassist and lutenist, but on Sunday four more violinists, a second violist and a harpsichordist were added to give the ripieno sections of the fast movements a heftier punch than the smaller group delivered.1
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian concerto, deverbal from concertare. Doublet of concert.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA: /kənˈt͡ʃɛɹtoʊ/
- Audio (US): 🔊
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Link to original Footnotes
2009 January 20, Allan Kozinn, “Shafts of Sun in Winter From the Italian Baroque”, in The New York Times , archived from the original on 26 November 2022: ↩
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