Music- The concerto
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- The Concerto
- Work for solo instrument accompanied by orchestra
- Normally in three movements (fast-slow-fast)
- Dates: Late 17th century-present day
- West Europe and America
- Main composers: Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart
- Main types of pieces: Piano concerto (classical period), violin concerto (all periods)
- Examples: Oboe concerto in A minor by Vivaldi
- Key features
- Alternations between solo sections and tutti sections
- A cadenza- an unaccompanied passage for the soloist, which usually comes at the end of the first movement
- Virtuosic playing, with rapid scales and arpeggios, extreme registers, large leaps and ornamentation
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