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How to use ritornello in a sentence

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The first movement, an aria for soprano and alto soloists, has a gorgeous instrumental ritornello that introduces the contrapuntal solo parts.
All begin with an orchestra ritornello before the entry of the solo instrument, and then branch out.
The two violins add interludes to the chorale, and lead in a kind of ritornello to the next verse.
The first movement opens with the expected orchestral ritornello exposing the principal themes.
Each begins with a compelling introduction followed by a short development and ends with an engaging ritornello.
Orchestral and solo passages alternate in the traditional ritornello fashion.
At the same time an ident was adopted: a starburst emblem accompanied by the opening ritornello from Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Te Deum.
The Vivaldi-like theme announces a ritornello similar to several used in the Brandenburg Concertos.
Thus, after just a handful of bars of ritornello, delivered at a breakneck speed, the soloist enters at, and insists upon, a much more sedate and measured tempo.
Brahms's Violin Concerto begins with a long ritornello, but for most 19th-century composers sonata form and the fantasia were more important than the ritornello principle.
In the first part of JS Bach we heard Jesus joy of men and Little fugue I G minor, with a prominence of a combination of the ritornello, with a suitable rhythm and the right balance.
The final ritornello, and the final song, is scored for the first viola and written in the alto clef.
In the first fifteen years during his residence in Berlin the composer created a basic model through his further development of the Italian ritornello form of the concerto movement.
Once 'in the fingers' however, one realises that the delightful ritornello is anything but monotonous and that what seems to be of simple or incomplete construction is in fact a refined, learned discourse.
The movements are written in ritornello form, the orchestra repeating the opening theme, in whole or in part and in various keys, in alternation with free, often virtuoso, solo passages.
This is full of festive pomp and fanfares, with a long ritornello of the introduction, using the full force of the choir and orchestra.
Most of the arias follow the vocal section with a ritornello scored for two to five strings, occasionally in scordatura tunings.
The composition consists of a four-part homophonic performance of the chorale verses, with a ritornello played by the accompanying instruments between the verses.
And with the ritornello, I see a small air of the flute or reed-pipe.
Never has a horse been more mistakenly named after what the 74-year-old went on to achieve following his success on Ritornello, which means 'little return' in Italian.
Examples from Classical Literature
What it probably did was to repeat as a sort of ritornello the clearly marked refrain of the song.
The ritornello is first given, which is long, because it serves as an introduction to the first scene of the opera.
She sang a couplet and the others sang in chorus a ritornello.
The same may be said about the Stornello, ritornello and Ciure.
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