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Definition of Ritornello
1. Noun. (music) an orchestral interlude between arias, scenes, or acts in seventeenth-century opera. ¹
2. Noun. (music) a tutti section in a concerto grosso, aria, etc. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ritornello
1. [n -LOS or -LI]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ritornello
Literary usage of Ritornello
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1832)
"This ritornello is often repeated after the singing voice has concluded ; hence
the name. In Italian operas, the 4« ritornelli arc often unduly prolonged. ..."
2. The Renaissance of Music by Morton Latham (1890)
"The arrangement of the clefs and other internal evidence show that in the ritornello
the stringed instruments took the lead in the orchestra ; just as in ..."
3. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1859)
"2G, inclusive of the ritornello, which this time is accompanied by the voices
... 331 — 431, including the ritornello from от 423, and is set to the above ..."
4. The Story of Opera by Ernest Markham Lee (1909)
"while for an example of early operatic dance-music the final "ritornello" from
the same opera may serve as illustration. Final ritornello in Peri's ..."
5. The Musical World (1858)
"Instead of the basses, the wind instruments now give utterance to the ritornello,
constructed from national melodies harmonised in an original fashion. ..."
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