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  • noun Plural form of concerto.

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Examples

  • But the interrupted-melody rhetoric that distinguishes the recent solo concerti is already there, as is the big-then-unexpectedly-intimate ending.

    Magna Carter (2): Genealogy Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • But the interrupted-melody rhetoric that distinguishes the recent solo concerti is already there, as is the big-then-unexpectedly-intimate ending.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • To improve their odds, "I tell my students very often that they should have in their repertoire some of the less well-known concerti," Ms. Kaplinsky continued.

    When Classical Musicians Call In Sick Joanne Kaufman 2011

  • The recordings include previously unheard concertos and sinfoniettas from composers such as Bach, as well as orchestral suites and concerti by Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart and Brahms.

    British Library's Archival Sound Recordings project now has 1,000 classical music recordings 2009

  • People not entirely familiar with the genre tend to aggregate, in their minds, all chant music of the Roman Rite as one type of "Gregorian Chant," all of which are alike in the same way that various forms of Vivaldi violin concerti are roughly the same stylistically.

    Varieties of Gregorian Chant 2009

  • He has written chamber music, concerti and theater pieces, teaches at Catholic University and is the composer-in-residence with the Cantate Chamber Singers.

    Composer-pianist Simpson shines at St. Paul's Lutheran Church 2011

  • Mozart's final, intensively creative years in Vienna produced all manner of wonders – operas, symphonies, concerti and several works for the keyboard.

    Mozart in Vienna 2010

  • Not incidentally — one of the best 1930s fake-modern piano concerti ever tossed into a film.

    Proof through the night Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • Edward Elgar is a paragon of the valedictory, with his two later concerti, for violin and cello, held up as sterling examples.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • Still, despite moments of surprise and invention, the overwhelming sense in this episodic collage of concerti, suites and sonatas -- all of them recorded -- was of clever ideas stretched too thin.

    Compañía Nacional de Danza at Kennedy Center, reviewed by Sarah Kaufman 2010

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