concerted music
- noun
- Specialized
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música concertada
- Baroque composers are known for their use of concerted music involving both vocalists and instrumentalists.
Examples
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The choir performed a beautiful piece of concerted music at the festival.
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Learning to sing concerted music helps musicians develop their ability to harmonize in ensembles.
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Don't you love concerted music?
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The choir performed a beautiful concerted music piece.
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The choir performed a beautiful piece of concerted music at the festival.
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Baroque composers are known for their use of concerted music involving both vocalists and instrumentalists.
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Learning to sing concerted music helps musicians develop their ability to harmonize in ensembles.
Synonyms
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8.6
Music with several different melodies heard at the same time
Music with two or more separate melody lines sounding at the same time
Music for several voices that sing different parts without instruments
How Polyphonic
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9.6
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Surface Forms
Morphology
A B1 learner who knows 'concerted' (coordinated, done together) plus 'music' can infer a general sense of music performed or organized jointly, so the expression is partly compositional. However, the precise musicological sense — arranged in independent parts for several voices/instruments — is a specialized extension not fully predictable from everyday meanings, so it is only partially transparent.
Etymology
The phrase concerted music comes from an old idea of being 'brought together' because concerted means parts joined to work as one. Imagine singers and instruments each playing different lines but fitting together like threads in a braid; that's why it means music written for 'several voices or instruments'.