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concertante

Term in music descriptive of an orchestral concerto in which a number of instruments perform solo, as in the sinfonia concertante works of Haydn and Mozart.



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With its intermittent pleasures and often plodding corps work, Balanchine's Symphonie Concertante falls short of his best work of the 1940s, including Theme and Variations, which it partly anticipated.
Examples of these works include Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, Concerti Grossi by Handel, Symphonies Concertantes by Mozart and Haydn, Elgar's Introduction and Allegro for Strings, Op.
35 in D Major, Sinfonia Concertante, Clarinet Concerto in A Major, Horn Concerto No.
 
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