A ritornello [ritorˈnɛllo] (Italian; "little return") is a recurring passage in Renaissance music and Baroque music for orchestra or chorus. The earliest...
17th and early 18th century, the da capo aria came to be include the ritornello (literally, 'little return'), a recurring instrumental episode which featured...
development of ritornello in early Italian opera at the very end of the 16th century and early 17th century. While rondo form is similar to ritornello form, it...
which began with an opening ritornello, which was then omitted in the repeat (the sign being placed after the ritornello). The segno sign is encoded in...
and pizzicato The da capo aria "enjoyed sureness".[citation needed] The ritornello aria – repeated short instrumental interruptions of vocal passages. The...
norm in its first and third movements. According to Malcolm Boyd, each ritornello section of the first movement, "is clinched with an Epilog of syncopated...
soprano 1, then soprano 2. Verses 1 to 5 are all followed by the same ritornello for five instruments. Verse 7 is the same choral setting as verse 1, followed...
establish the key of C major and the mood for the following Sanctus. The "Ritornello" and the "Sanctus" which follows are in effect in the same key of C major...
dictionary. Bridge (music) Hook (music) Pallavi, a refrain in carnatic music Ritornello "Poems of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, inc. "Troy Town"". Archived from the...
verification] 'Ritournelle' is the French equivalent of the Italian musical term 'ritornello' IMSLP Grove, George and Fuller-Maitland, John Alexander (1908), Grove's...
several realisations of the opera include a solution to the missing ritornello at the end of the second act. Known to have been part of the score, it...
soldier's rejoice" Movement 10, Ritornello Movement 11, Trio and Chorus, "To Mars let 'em raise" Movement 12, Ritornello Movement 13a, Prelude – A Symphony...
Another role for the orchestra during this period was playing an orchestral ritornello to mark the end of a singer's solo. During the early 1700s, some composers...
subsection of a piece. A cadenza can also be found before a final coda or ritornello. Initially, Cadenzas were more simple and structured - a performer would...
what should be the last ritornello is interrupted by a brief perfidia episode building up to the true concluding ritornello; similarly in the last movement...
during the 17th century. Peri's Euridice opens with a brief instrumental ritornello, and Monteverdi's L'Orfeo (1607) opens with a toccata, in this case a...