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Concertato
Concertato Concertato (sometimes called "stile concertato") is a term in early Baroque music ... Italian concerto which means "playing together" —hence concertato means "in the style of a concerto ... three pieces from the set are in concertato style." A somewhat oversimplified, but useful ...
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Andreas Hammerschmidt
... and the most famous representative of the concertato style of the generation after Heinrich Schütz ... output is sacred vocal music in the concertato style. According to Manfred Bukofzer (1947), he ... Even Hammerschmidt's masses conform to the concertato style, and are best seen as concertos ...
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Ignazio Donati
... the pioneers of the style of the concertato motet. Donati was born in Casalmaggiore, near ... practical. He wrote motets using the new concertato style pioneered by the composers of the ... which Donati worked. In addition to his concertato motets and other mixed instrumental-vocal music ... References and further reading Articles "Ignazio Donati," "concertato," "Motet" from The New Grove Dictionary of ...
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Alessandro Grandi
... early Baroque era, writing in the new concertato style. He was one of the most ... his early compositions are motets in the concertato style: some are duets and trios, an ... of Grandi shows a link between the concertato style which began the Baroque era, and ...
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Venetian polychoral style
... singing in alternation gradually evolved into the concertato style, which in its different instrumental and ... had spread far, and transformed into the concertato style. In 1612 Claudio Monteverdi was appointed ... vogue of the polychoral style had passed; concertato music, much with solo voice, was now ...
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Chorale concerto
... vocal music accompanied by instruments, specifically in concertato style. The concertato style was brought north across the Alps ...
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Antonio Cifra
... both the Renaissance a cappella and Baroque concertato forms. Stylistically, Cifra's music varies between ... of his solo madrigals. Some of his concertato madrigals are like small cantatas, and can ...
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Air de cour
... madrigal, either in its polyphonic or its concertato form. This is all the more surprising ... worked in France, and the polyphonic and concertato forms of madrigal were being deeply influential ...
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Johann Schein
... the innovations of the Italian Baroque—monody, the concertato style, figured bass—and use them effectively in ... style all the more amazing. His early concertato music seems to have been modeled on ...
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Lodovico Grossi da Viadana
... in an early Baroque style, with frequent concertato passages, and always with a basso continuo ... It was largely through Viadana that the concertato style arrived in Germany, the country that ...
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