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Independence ''Obbligato'' includes the idea of independence, as in C.P.E. Bach 's 1780 Symphonies "''mit zwölf obligaten Stimmen''" ("with twelve obbligato parts") by which Bach was referring to the independent woodwind parts he was using for the first time. These parts were also obbligato in the sense of ''indispensible''. Obbligato vs continuo In connection with a keyboard part in the baroque period, obbligato has a very specific meaning: it describes a functional change from a Basso Continuo part (in which the player decided how to fill in the harmonies unobtrusively) to a fully-written part of equal importance to the main melody part. A contradictory usage Curiously, a more recent use of the term has the contradictory meaning of ''optional'', indicating that a part was not obligatory'Obbligato' in Lectionary of Music, Nicolas Slonimsky. McGraw-Hill ISBN 0-07-058222-X: a difficult passage in a concerto might be furnished by the editor with an easier alternative called the obbligato. Modern-day usage The term has fallen out of use by modern-day practitioners, as composers, performers and audiences alike have come to see the musical text to be paramount in decisions of musical execution, and so everything has come to be seen as 'obbligato'. It is now used mainly to discuss music of the past. EXAMPLES Instances of obbligato (explicit)
Instances of obbligato (implicit)
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