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- How do you indicate the end of a solo?
- What is an instrumental solo called?
- What is a solo section called?
- How may Musicians play if the music is marked solo?
How do you indicate the end of a solo?
The term tutti, from the Italian for everyone, indicates where the solo ends. When the tutti notation appears in a musical composition, it's an indication for the rest of the ensemble or the rest of the instruments in that section to resume playing.
What is an instrumental solo called?
In music, an instrumental solo piece (from the Italian: solo, meaning alone) is a composition, like an étude, solo sonata, partita, solo suite or impromptus, or an arrangement, written to be played by a single performer. The performer is a soloist.
What is a solo section called?
The plural is soli or the anglicised form solos. ... Furthermore, the word soli can be used to refer to a small number of simultaneous parts assigned to single players in an orchestral composition. In the Baroque concerto grosso, the term for such a group of soloists was concertino.
How may Musicians play if the music is marked solo?
If the composer has written 'solo' for one of the orchestral instruments, and at the same time has written a passage for the main soloist, then yes, they are supposed to play together.
