Concerto - Early Baroque Concerto

Early Baroque Concerto

The term "concerto" was initially used to denote works involving voices and instruments in which the instruments had independent parts—as opposed to the Renaissance common practice in which the instruments that accompanied voices only doubled the voice parts. Examples of this earlier form of concerto include Giovanni Gabrieli's "In Ecclesiis" or Heinrich Schütz's "Saul, Saul, was verfolgst du mich."

Read more about this topic:  Concerto

Famous quotes containing the words early and/or baroque:

    “O troubled forms, O early love unfortunate and hard,
    Time has estranged you into a jewel cold and pure;”
    —Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)

    “Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.”
    —Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)