| Title: | Concerto |
| Original Title: | Concerto |
| 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. "Concerto." 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.did2222.0002.894>. Trans. of "Concerto," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 3. Paris, 1753. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. "Concerto." 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.did2222.0002.894 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Concerto," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 3:804 (Paris, 1753). |
Concerto, Gallicized Italian word, in Music, means an instrumental piece made to be played by the whole orchestra.
There are concertos made for an individual instrument who plays a solo from time to time, with a simple accompaniment, after which the whole orchestra comes back in, and the piece continues thus, always alternating between this same instrument and the orchestra. It is this that is properly called concerto. As for those where everyone plays as a group, and where no instrument plays alone, the Italians also call these symphonies.