"A genre or a style of music in which groups of instruments or voices share a melody, usually in alternation, and almost always over a basso continuo. The concertato style involves contrast between opposing groups of voices and groups of instruments: the concerto style, especially as it developed into the concerto grosso later in the Baroque, involves contrast between large and small groups of similar composition (later called ""ripieno"" and ""concertino"")." UniCum Laude - Alessandro Grandi - Litaniae
