symphonie concertante

symphonie concertante, Italian sinfonia concertante, in music of the Classical period (c. 1750–c. 1820), symphony employing two or more solo instruments.

A symphony is an orchestra's large-scale musical composition, usually requiring 50-80 instruments. Symphonies refer to the music, not the musicians performing it, and similar to stage plays, they may have several movements or acts of, often complex, elaborate classical music.

: a 17th or 18th century musical composition for orchestra with parts for solo instruments or for several solo instruments without orchestra compare concerto grosso.

The symphonie concertante is different from the concerto because the soloists advance melodic material and participate in moving along the development schemes, functioning as in a symphony, rather than performing a single, showy musical part in the manner of a concerto.

Definition of 'concertante' 1. characterized by contrasting alternating tutti and solo passages. nounWord forms: plural -ti (-tɪ ) 2. a composition characterized by such contrasts.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in E♭ major, K. 364 (320d), was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. At the time of its composition in 1779, Mozart was on a tour of Europe that included Mannheim and Paris.

agreement or concord of sound The word symphony is derived from the Greek word συμφωνία (symphōnía), meaning "agreement or concord of sound", "concert of vocal or instrumental music", from σύμφωνος (sýmphōnos), "harmonious".

Definition of symphony. as in orchestration. a balanced, pleasing, or suitable arrangement of parts the satisfying symphony of color in Renoir's canvases. orchestration. symmetry.

First, a little history; originally, the Italian word simply meant concert - the act of doing something together - musically, the act of playing as a group. Early composers used "Concerto" as a name for all their pieces. Over the long history of music, this term evolved to describe a specific music composition.

The genre here, as the name indicates, is basically a hybrid between the symphony and the concerto - what, later in the 19th century, would be labeled a double concerto for violin and viola. Yet the Sinfonia Concertante wondrously unifies these several dimensions.

adjective. brilliantly virtuosic: a concertante part for solo violin. solo rather than accompanying: a sonata for recorder and harpsichord concertante.

to plan verb [ transitive ] /kontʃer'tare/ figurative. to plan , to establish.