concertato

concertato (countable and uncountable, plural concertatos)

1. (music) An early Baroque genre or style of music in which groups of instruments or voices share a melody, usually in alternation, and almost always over a basso continuo.
   • 2008 June 16, Anthony Tommasini, “Can We Talk? Lively Musical Conversations, With a Contemporary Slant”, in New York Times‎:

     Every piece chosen explored the concept of concertato, the musical equivalent of a conversation in a lively, eclectic social setting: a boisterous pub, perhaps, as the program note suggested.

2. A piece of music in this style.

• IPA^(key): /kon.t͡ʃerˈta.to/
• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: con‧cer‧tà‧to

concertato (feminine concertata, masculine plural concertati, feminine plural concertate)

1. past participle of concertare

• concretato, tetraconco

concertātō

1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of concertō