RITORNELLO

Ritornello

A ritornello is a reinviting passage in Baroque music for orchestra or chorus. The first or final movement of a solo concerto, concerto grosso, or aria may be in "ritornello form", in which the ritornello is the opening theme, always played tutti, which returns in whole or in part and in different keys throughout the movement. In this, ritornello form differs from the rondo.

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ritornello

Noun

  1. an orchestral interlude between arias, scenes, or acts in seventeenth-century opera.
  2. a tutti section in a concerto grosso, aria, etc.


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