concerto
noun
a composition for one or more principal instruments, with orchestral accompaniment, now usually in symphonic form.
concerti
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pluralof concerto.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Up north in Bellingham, the annual festival gets underway with an orchestral program featuring the dynamic pianist George Li in the Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3, arguably the best of that composer’s concerti.
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2019
He made a playlist of about 30 classic concerti, narrowed that down to 20 and listened obsessively.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2019
The mighty assortment of recordings of the symphonies, concerti, chamber music operas and sacred works justify the cost.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2016
They would play something like a dozen pieces each: preludes and fugues, chorales, chorale preludes, sonatas, concerti, variations, and “free” works drawn from Bach’s five decades as a working organist.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 3, 2014
He, the troubled, nervous, modern man, wrote with fluency fugues and double fugues, chaconnes and passacaglie, concerti grossi and variations.
From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld
