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A somewhat oversimplified, but useful distinction between ''concertato'' and '''''concerto''''' can be made: the ''concertato'' style involves contrast between opposing groups of voices and groups of instruments: the ''concerto'' style, especially as it developed into the '' Concerto Grosso '' later in the Baroque, involves contrast between large and small groups of similar composition (later called "ripieno" and "concertino").

The style developed in , then in Germany and the rest of Italy, and then gradually in other parts of the continent). Another term sometimes used for this antiphonal use of the choirs in St. Mark's was ''cori spezzati''. See also Venetian Polychoral Style and Venetian School .

In the early voices singing in smooth Polyphony , would now be set for voices and instruments in a concertato style. These pieces, no longer always called motets, were given a variety of names including '' Concerto '', Psalm (if a psalm setting), '' Sinfonia '', or ''symphoniae'' (for example in Heinrich Schütz's collections of ''Symphoniae Sacrae'').

The concertato style made possible the composition of extremely dramatic music, one of the characteristic innovations of the early Baroque .


COMPOSERS OF MUSIC IN CONCERTATO STYLE




SOURCES


  • Manfred Bukofzer , ''Music in the Baroque Era''. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1947. (ISBN 0393097455)

  • ''The New Harvard Dictionary of Music'', ed. Don Randel. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1986. (ISBN 0674615255)

  • Article "concertato" in ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980. (ISBN 1561591742)