2. Concerto
• An instrumental musical composition in which a solo
instrument is set off against an orchestral ensemble.
• Commonly performed in concert halls.
• Italian composer Francesco Maria Veracini has created
concertos intended for theater productions.
• In concerto, the soloist and the ensemble play in
alternation, competition, and combination.
3. Concerto
• Near the end of concerto’s movement,
an improvised cadenza is given.
-a Cadenza is an extended free flourish part
played by the concerto soloist that may last
for several minutes.
• The concerto follows a more consistent
plan of three movements, in slow-fast-
slow order
4. Concerto
• The string instruments are one’s mainly
used in performing a concerto.
• The string quartet gradually becomes
dominant over the basso continou and the
melody parts.
• Because= the solo instrument has become
an exclusive solo part, the tutti is also no
longer reinforced by the solo instrument in
tutti passage.
5. Concerto
• At the peak of the Classical era, the
piano became the most popular choice
of solo instruments played in a concerto
6. Symphony
• Symphony is an important musical genre
which became popular in the 17th and
18th centuries.
• The term symphony came from the
Greek word Symphonia which means
“note sounding together”
7. Symphony
• Symphony commonly consist of large
sections or movements with at least one
sonata form.
In an Italian symphony the structure
follows the fast-slow-fast pattern.
