concertato
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concertato (countable and uncountable, plural concertatos)
- (music) An early Baroque genre or style of music in which groups of instruments or voices share a melody, usually in alternation, and almost always over a basso continuo.
- 2008 June 16, Anthony Tommasini, “Can We Talk? Lively Musical Conversations, With a Contemporary Slant”, in New York Times[1]:
- Every piece chosen explored the concept of concertato, the musical equivalent of a conversation in a lively, eclectic social setting: a boisterous pub, perhaps, as the program note suggested.
- A piece of music in this style.
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concertato (feminine concertata, masculine plural concertati, feminine plural concertate)
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concertātō