Concerto: confusion with the word concert and correct definition

Have you ever gotten confused in the use of the word concert? This happens. because both concert (with c) and repair (with s) are present in the. Portuguese vocabulary, but the two have different meanings.

• Fix (with s) refers to a sense of. fix, fix something that's broken.

Examples: “The repair of my notebook was too expensive” or. “I'll take my guitar for repair”.

• Concerto (with c) is used in everyday life. musical, where it is synonymous with the harmonious union of various sounds.

Examples: “the tickets for that concert are already sold out” or “the musical concert was divine”.

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Concert and yours. outdated meaning

Previously, the noun concert was also used. referring to “to match”, “to sound harmonious” or “to reconcile”. Although today it does. lost ground, this word was used a lot, as shown in the example below:

Example: “After much arguing they agreed on. not sell the house”.

So both words exist in vocabulary com. different meanings and separated by a s/c.

Concert etymology / repair

There are two theories that can explain the origin of these two. words. One is that the term originates from the Latin fix, which means to connect, gather or join.

Another widely discussed theory is that of the origin of these. words come from latin concertatum, which originally means to compete.

According to Portuguese language dictionaries, these two words “repair” and “concert” are classified as homophone words. Have you ever heard of this term? It refers to words that have the same pronunciation but different meanings.

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Definition of concert. according to the dictionary

The definition below is taken from the Michaellis dictionary. online:

concert

• 1 Agreement between persons or institutions in order to. achieve a certain goal.
• 2 Agreement between people with a view to the practice of. certain action, usually unlawful.
• 3 Correct order; stowage.
• 4 Help, assistance, participation.
• 5 Comparison, collate: “I listened to what was said a. my respect, in the streets and in the rooms; it was a concert of praise and admiration" (MA3).
• 6 The harmonious song of birds.
• 7 MUS Consonance of voices, sounds or. instruments.
• 8 MUS Long piece, usually in three. movements, in which one or more soloists perform with an orchestra or group. musical.
• 9 MUS Musical spectacle of any genre: “They even played some weekly concerts, with three artists, friends of. Pestana […] and called the woman to play a part of the night” (MA6).

Expressions:

• Double concert, MÚS: concert for two. solo instruments.
• Gross concert, MUS: concert in which a small one. group (concertino) acts in front of the orchestra.
• Triple concert, MÚS: concert for three. solo instruments.
• In concert: in agreement.

Concert and yours. polemics

In the musical world, the word concert generates some controversy. This is because the origin of the word, as we have already seen, is derived from Latin and at the beginning. from the 16th century, two original words were used:

• concertatum. (from the verb concertare: "to fight", "to compete") - and
• repair (from the verb conserere translated as “interlace”, “to bind”, but also, in some contexts, as “to argue”).

German composer Michael Praetorius argued that a. first idea of ​​the word meant the clash between two compositions. distinct instrumentals both in sonority and in number. Hugo Daffner, German composer, defends the use of the word as combat, competition, between. concertante styles.

Origin of the concert. musical

From the 16th century onwards, concerts began to be. inserted in the musical environment through the creation of the Concerto for Harpsichord in the years between 1720 and 1780. Andrea Gabrieli or. Ludovico da Viadana were also precursors of unstructured vocal concerts. typical.

It was in the Baroque period that the concert took shape and began to. having in its constitution a set of three (or more) soloists with an orchestra. bigger. In Classicism it assumed a structure more like the classical sonata. which is widely known.

In Romanticism, concerts began to aim at. maximum exploitation of the potential of soloists.

Check out some famous concerts:

• Piano Concerto No. 1, by Piotr Ilyitch. Tchaikovsky;
• The four concertos opus 8, “The Four. Stations”, by Antonio Vivaldi
• Piano Concerto No. 21, by Wolfgang Amadeus. Mozart;
• Concerto for flute nº 1, by Wolfgang Amadeus. Mozart;
• Sheet music for the Piano Concerto Nº 2 de. Mendelsshon (fragment).
• Johann Sebastian's Brandenburg Concertos. Bach
• Piano Concerto No. 5, “The Emperor”, by Ludwig van Beethoven;
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Concerto no. 20 in D. minor, K. 466
• Edvard Grieg – Concerto for piano and orchestra. in A minor, op. 16
• Robert Schumann – Concerto for piano and orchestra in A Minor, op.54
• Sergei Rachmaninov – Concerto No. 2 for piano e. orchestra in C minor, op. 18
• Frederic Chopin – Concerto No. 1 for piano e. orchestra in E minor, op. 11
• Johannes Brahms – Concerto No. 2 for piano e. orchestra in B flat major, op. 83
• Maurice Ravel – Concerto for piano and orchestra. in G major

In 1969, Jon's first concert for group and orchestra. Lord was recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall. The album was called Concerto for. Group and Orchestra and it was after this performance that the term concert came to. be used often for popular purposes and not just in performances. classics.

Concert times. current

In today's musicality, the concert entered the Era. Classic, where it survives to this day. This model consists of three. movements:

1. Quick, in sonata form,
2. Slow (in any form) and
3. Again fast, in rondo;

The orchestra that performs the musical accompaniment in this structure. it can be complete, strings or chamber. But something has changed in the definition of. concert, as time passed.

Nowadays, people use the term concert for themselves. refer to presentations that are not necessarily the classic presentations. as explained in this article. The term has become as generic as any. presentation that involves performing in front of an audience can mean a concert, even if it is a rock concert.

However, in the erudite definition, the term concerto is a written composition where an orchestra or instrumental ensemble accompanies one or more solo instruments. Depending on the period in which it was composed, the orchestral parts of a concert represent a harmonic instrumental fabric over which the soloist displays his technique and his interpretive mastery.

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