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ritornello

In music, a repeating section: in the 14th and 15th centuries, it was the refrain at the end of each madrigal verse, the music being treated separately from the previous material, often including a change of metre. In 17th-century opera and song, a ritornello was an instrumental conclusion or refrain added to the end of an aria or song; in the classical period (1750–1820) it was used in concerto composition, denoting the return of the full orchestra (or ‘tutti’) after a solo passage.



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