Bach - Double Violin Concerto in D minor 2nd movement, Largo. Music History: Concerto of The Baroque Period. Bach: Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor BWV 1043 HD Video (Bach Double) The Baroque Concerto. It has often been said, and not without reason, that baroque music began in Italy. The Baroque Period saw the resurgence of Rome as the Catholic Center of the world, after a long period of decline. Money poured into the City Coffers, artists and sculptors worked to make the Eternal City the living, open-air museum it is today. In music too we can look to Italy for the origins both of the sonata and the concerto – and more precisely, we can single out Arcangelo Corelli. With his famous Concerti Grossi, 1714, Corelli established the concerto form as a composition for multiple players, in which a smaller group of instrumentalists (concertino), is set against the larger orchestra (ripieno), the two taking the theme and its development in alternation.
This idea is the continuation of an older Italian church tradition, that of 'antiphonal' singing of verse and response 'echoing' one another. This wealth of musical development did not go unnoticed in the rest of Europe. Concerto. The etymology is uncertain, but the word seems to have originated from the conjunction of the two Latin words conserere (meaning to tie, to join, to weave) and certamen (competition, fight): the idea is that the two parts in a concerto, the soloist and the orchestra or concert band, alternate episodes of opposition, cooperation, and independence in the creation of the music flow.
The concerto, as understood in this modern way, arose in the Baroque period side by side with the concerto grosso, which contrasted a small group of instruments with the rest of the orchestra. The popularity of the concerto grosso form declined after the Baroque period, and the genre was not revived until the 20th century. The solo concerto, however, has remained a vital musical force from its inception to this day. Early Baroque concerto[edit] Late Baroque concerto[edit] The concerto began to take its modern shape in the late Baroque period.
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