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Stile concertato

The stile concertato (, ) is a style of early Baroque music in which groups of instruments or voices share a melody, usually in alternation, and almost always over a basso continuo. The word

Composers of music in stile concertato#

  • Giovanni Croce
  • Ignazio Donati
  • Andrea Gabrieli
  • Giovanni Gabrieli
  • Alessandro Grandi
  • Johann Kaspar Kerll
  • Claudio Monteverdi
  • Michael Praetorius
  • Samuel Scheidt
  • Johann Hermann Schein
  • Heinrich Schütz
  • Lodovico Viadana

Sources#

  • Manfred Bukofzer, Music in the Baroque Era. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1947. ()
  • The New Harvard Dictionary of Music, ed. Don Randel. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1986. ()
  • Article “concertato” in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980. ()
Genre family
Baroque music, Choral music genres, Renaissance music