Concertato vs. Ripieno

Concertatonoun

(music) An early Baroque genre or style of music in which groups of instruments or voices share a melody, usually in alternation, and almost always over a basso continuo.

Concertatonoun

A piece of music in this style.

Concertato

Concertato is a term in early Baroque music referring to either a genre or a style of music in which groups of instruments or voices share a melody, usually in alternation, and almost always over a basso continuo. The term derives from Italian concerto which means —hence concertato means In contemporary usage, the term is almost always used as an adjective, for example A somewhat oversimplified, but useful distinction between concertato and concerto can be made: the concertato style involves contrast between opposing groups of voices and groups of instruments: the concerto style, especially as it developed into the concerto grosso later in the Baroque, involves contrast between large and small groups of similar composition (later called and ).

Ripienonoun

(music) The part of a concerto grosso in which the ensemble plays together; contrasted with the concertino.

Ripienoadjective

Filling up; supplementary; supernumerary; - a term applied to those instruments which only swell the mass or tutti of an orchestra, but are not obbligato.

Ripieno

The ripieno (Italian pronunciation: [riˈpjɛːno], Italian for or ) is the bulk of instrumental parts of a musical ensemble who do not play as soloists, especially in Baroque music. These are the players who would play in sections marked tutti, as opposed to soloist sections.