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Concertante

Music; Classical

When used to modify another form or genre term, this word suggests a greater than usual amount of concerto-like virtuoso display from one or more of the players.

Tonality

Music; Classical

The feeling of centrality of one note (and its chord) to a passage of music; as opposed to atonality.

Neoromanticism (post-Romanticism)

Music; Classical

Vague terms generally denoting efforts to retain the aesthetic and/or mood of Romantic Period composition, while adding to it through the application of more recent techniques.

Concerto grosso

Music; Classical

Orchestral form especially popular in the 17th and 18th centuries in which the contrasting lines of a smaller and a larger group of instruments are featured.