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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
concerto
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
piano
▪ In 1773 Mozart also wrote his first wholly original piano concerto.
▪ Geneva will hear all his piano concertos in seven concerts.
▪ He is a most distinguished Mozartian, and this year is recording all 27 of the piano concertos for Chandos Records.
▪ A Rachmaninov piano concerto swept through the flat, making the problem of Ruth trivial and vague.
▪ The six finalists then played two piano concertos each with the Fort Worth Symphony.
▪ In 1776 Mozart turned his attention to the piano concerto, writing four very different works.
violin
▪ Bach's violin concertos have been well-treated on record, but this new version from Hyperion using period instruments is exceptional.
▪ David Oistrakh recorded the Brahms and Tchaikovsky violin concertos many times.
■ VERB
write
▪ He wrote a guitar concerto for John Williams, amongst other things.
▪ Gould wrote two concertos for tap dancer and orchestra, simply because there was a need for them.&038;.
▪ In the mid-1950s, Piazzola began to write operas and concertos based on the tangos.
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▪ But the concerto, none the less, is completely Mozartian in character, and perfectly assured.
▪ David Oistrakh recorded the Brahms and Tchaikovsky violin concertos many times.
▪ Douglas makes the concerto sound almost chaste in its clinical brilliance.
▪ He is a most distinguished Mozartian, and this year is recording all 27 of the piano concertos for Chandos Records.
▪ His best selling recording was a version of Elgar's cello concerto.
▪ In the mid-1950s, Piazzola began to write operas and concertos based on the tangos.
▪ One of the pieces is a jazz concerto by the legendary trumpet player Harry James.
▪ The Albinoni started life as an oboe concerto.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Concerto

Concerto \Con*cer"to\ (?; It. ?), n.; pl. Concertos. [It. See Concert, n.] (Mus.) A composition (usually in symphonic form with three movements) in which one instrument (or two or three) stands out in bold relief against the orchestra, or accompaniment, so as to display its qualities or the performer's skill.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
concerto

1730, from Italian concerto (see concert). Concerto grosso is from 1724.

Wiktionary
concerto

n. (context music English) A piece of music for one or more solo instruments and orchestra.

WordNet
concerto
  1. n. a composition for orchestra and a soloist

  2. [also: concerti (pl)]

Wikipedia
Concerto

A concerto (from the , plural concerti or, often, the anglicised form concertos) is a musical composition, whose characteristics have changed over time. In the 17th century, "sacred works for voices and orchestra were typically called concertos." J. S. Bach "was thus reflecting a long-standing tradition when he used the title `concerto' for many of the works that we know as cantatas.". But in recent centuries, up to the present, a concerto is a piece usually composed in three parts or movements, in which (usually) one solo instrument (for instance, a piano, violin, cello or flute) is accompanied by an orchestra or concert band.

The etymology is uncertain, but the word seems to have originated from the conjunction of the two Latin words conserere (meaning to tie, to join, to weave) and certamen (competition, fight): the idea is that the two parts in a concerto, the soloist and the orchestra or concert band, alternate episodes of opposition, cooperation, and independence in the creation of the music flow.

The concerto, as understood in this modern way, arose in the Baroque period side by side with the concerto grosso, which contrasted a small group of instruments called a concertino with the rest of the orchestra, called the ripieno. The popularity of the concerto grosso form declined after the Baroque period, and the genre was not revived until the 20th century. The solo concerto, however, has remained a vital musical force from its inception to this day.

Concerto (TV series)

Concerto was a Canadian music television miniseries which aired on CBC Television in 1976.

Concerto (disambiguation)

A concerto is a musical work usually composed in three parts or movements, in which (usually) one solo instrument is accompanied by an orchestra.

Concerto may also refer to:

Concerto (manga)

, is a manga by Mitsuru Hattori, published by Hakusensha, that was serialized in Young Animal Zōkan Island magazine between 2005 and 2011. It is a yuri school life manga. The manga consists of five chapters in one volume.

Concerto (The Avengers)

Concerto is the twenty-fourth episode of the third series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman. It originally aired on ABC on 7 March 1964. The episode was directed by Kim Mills and written by Terrance Dicks and Malcolm Hulke.

Concerto (ballet)

Concerto is a one-act ballet in three movements created by Kenneth MacMillan in 1966 for the Berliner Ballett. The music is Dmitri Shostakovich's '' Second Piano Concerto (1957).

The first performance was on 30 November 1966 at the Deutsche Oper, Berlin. MacMillan staged the piece for the Royal Ballet Touring Company at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in May 1967.

Concerto (Roxy Music album)

Concerto is a live album by Roxy Music. All tracks were recorded during the group's "Manifesto Tour" at the Rainbow Music Hall, Denver, Colorado on April 12, 1979, except for Mother of Pearl and Editions of You, which were recorded earlier that month at the Oakland Auditorium, Oakland, California. The album was released in 2001; three years after it was previously released as Concert Classics in 1998 (which doesn't include the final two tracks). It was released again (with the same track listing) under the title Ladytron on August 19, 2002 on Superior Records. Roxy Music had no input to this album as it is not an official Roxy Music release but released under license.

Usage examples of "concerto".

I read of a concert pianist who could play the most complex concerti from memory yet who could not point to middle C.

If composers could map that other land with their concerti, or painters with their palettes, why not other varieties of magic too?

The concerti, the often flashy and tinselly pianoforte compositions of Liszt and Rubinstein were the immediate and surface result of that deeper sense of the instrument which arrived during the nineteenth century, and intoxicated folk with the piano timbres, and made them eager to hear its many voices in no matter how crude a form.

He, the troubled, nervous, modern man, wrote with fluency fugues and double fugues, chaconnes and passacaglie, concerti grossi and variations.

He writes fugues for organs and sonatas for violin solo under the influence of Bach, concerti grossi under the influence of Haendel, variations under that of Mozart, sonatas under that of Brahms.

It is not that fugues and concerti in the olden style cannot be written to-day, that modern music and the antique forms are incompatible.

I was ready to give up rock and roll in favor of some Beethoven piano concerti, music that I hoped would soothe and calm me.

Martin himself preferred more serious music and was very familiar with the likes of Telemann and the flute concerti of Mozart and Haydn.

Concerto in D for flute filled the small car causing Desis One and Two to look at each other in disapproval and Pinkus to breathe steadily, deeply, for a few moments of peace.

Brandenburg Concertos for my ear, but I am open to wonder whether the same events are recalled by the rhythms of insects, the long, pulsing runs of birdsong, the descants of whales, the modulated vibrations of a million locusts in migration, the tympani of gorilla breasts, termite heads, drumfish bladders.

But he had not quite finished his incantations,--the last part of the Concerto was yet to come,--and as soon as the hubbub of excitement had calmed down, he dashed into it with the delicious speed and joy of a lark soaring into the springtide air.

There drifted down from behind the picture the scratchy recorded notes of a Khatchaturian piano concerto, which mingled eerily with the sullen pipes of snake charmers in a neighbouring street.

On this occasion the programme was entirely confined to his own compositions, with the exception of concertos by Viotti, the violinist, and Ferlendis, the oboist.

He never enthused about anything, and he listened with that funny look on his face while I rhapsodised about the Elgar violin concerto.

After a fine symphony, a concerto for the violin, another for the hautbois, the Italian singer whose repute was so great and who was styled Madame Trend made her appearance.