CONCERTO (concerti)

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Irregular inflected form: concerti   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does concerto mean? 

• CONCERTO (noun)
  The noun CONCERTO has 1 sense:

1. a composition for orchestra and a soloist

  Familiarity information: CONCERTO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONCERTO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A composition for orchestra and a soloist

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("concerto" is a kind of...):

classical; classical music; serious music (traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "concerto"):

concerto grosso (a baroque composition for orchestra and a group of solo instruments)

 Context examples 

Elizabeth, easy and unaffected, had been listened to with much more pleasure, though not playing half so well; and Mary, at the end of a long concerto, was glad to purchase praise and gratitude by Scotch and Irish airs, at the request of her younger sisters, who, with some of the Lucases, and two or three officers, joined eagerly in dancing at one end of the room.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Lucy first put an end to it by saying in a lower tone, though Marianne was then giving them the powerful protection of a very magnificent concerto—

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)