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How to use concerto in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Concerto means a piece of music for one or more solo instruments and orchestra. Example: “He performed one of Ravel's piano concertos with a wonderfully light and playful touch.”

More sentences with concerto

  • He performed one of Ravel's piano concertos with a wonderfully light and playful touch.From the entry touch
  • The first violin part in this concerto is very challenging.From the entry part
  • The piano concerto mentioned as among the prosilient works of the year was that of Ernest Toch, his opus 54.1928, Modern Music: A Quarterly Review - Volumes 6-9, page 21. From the entry prosilient
  • Its first movement is a sedate, haunting, almost melodramatic nocturne, but before too long the concerto changes gear and becomes energetic, discordant, feral.2019 April 10, qntm, “CASE HATE RED”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 137. From the entry nocturne
  • The flautist Bezaly adds to the impressive list of flute concertos dedicated to her with the composer Pulkkis’s contribution to the genre.2007 July 28, Rick Jones, “Sharon Bezaly / Uljas Pulkkis: Enchanted Garden”, in Times of London. From the entry flautist
  • The start of the D major concerto K2 18 goes back to cheerful fanfaring, and the movement maintains a very active role for the soloist.2006, Nicholas Kenyon, The Pegasus Pocket Guide to Mozart, →ISBN, page 195. From the entry fanfaring
  • His glassichord was a sensation in the intersecting spheres of art and science, capitalizing as it did upon a fad in London of playing concertos upon musical glasses.2017, Daniel Mark Epstein, The Loyal Son: The War in Ben Franklin's House, page 88. From the entry glassichord
  • Evidently the partituras for the concertos were never published as they cannot be found in archives in the USSR and in the great libraries of Leipzig and London.1973, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Nikolaev, John Field, page 69. From the entry partitura
  • This concerto, composed exclusively for a Paris performance, never to be played elsewhere, took the critics by storm after they had waited out several concertsful of suspense.1956, Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen, Harper's Magazine - Volume 212, page 95. From the entry concertful
  • The stillness returned, save for the little voices of the night—the owl's recitative, the capriccio of the crickets, the concerto of the frogs in the grass.1909 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Renaissance at Charleroi”, in Roads of Destiny, Garden City, N.Y.…. From the entry capriccio

Meaning of concerto

  1. noun A piece of music for one or more solo instruments and orchestra.

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Questions about concerto in a sentence

How do you use concerto in a sentence?
Concerto is used as a noun. For example: “He performed one of Ravel's piano concertos with a wonderfully light and playful touch.”
What is a short sentence with concerto?
“The first violin part in this concerto is very challenging.”
What does concerto mean?
Concerto means a piece of music for one or more solo instruments and orchestra.

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