| Title: | Concertant |
| Original Title: | Concertant |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 3 (1753), p. 804 |
| Author: | Jean-Jacques Rousseau (biography) |
| Translator: | Beverly Wilcox [California State University, Sacramento] |
| Subject terms: |
Music
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| Citation (MLA): | Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. "Concertant." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Beverly Wilcox. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2014. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.893>. Trans. of "Concertant," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 3. Paris, 1753. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. "Concertant." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Beverly Wilcox. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.893 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Concertant," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 3:804 (Paris, 1753). |
Concertant, parties concertantes, are, in Music, according to abbé Brossard, those who have something to play as a solo in the piece, and this word serves to distinguish them from the participants who are only part of the ensemble.
This sense of the word is old-fashioned; today one says parties récitantes ; but concertant is used in speaking of the number of musicians who perform in a concert, and it is fine to say There were twenty-five of us concertants; a concert of eight to ten concertants.