These segments can be separated from each other or combined in new ways without losing their identity as the ritornello. The opening ritornello is composed of several small units, typically two to four measures in length, some of which may be repeated or varied.
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Ritornellos for the full orchestra alternate with episodes for the soloist or soloists.Vivaldi's ritornello form established a set of conventions followed by later composers in the eighteenth century: This form was standardized by Antonio Vivaldi, who wrote hundreds of concertos using a modification of Torelli's scheme. Giuseppe Torelli wrote many violin concertos in which the fast movements used a recurring ritornello in between two extended solo passages of entirely new material. The ritornello was also crucial in the development of the Italian instrumental concerto during the Baroque period. Many da capo arias could be subdivided further, with ritornello sections framing each of the singer's solo sections, forming the scheme | R-A1-R-A2-R | B | R-A1-R-A2-R ||. The most common form for an aria during the Baroque period was da capo form, which essentially consisted of an A section followed by a contrasting B section, which was in turn followed by a return of the A section. The idea of an orchestral ritornello played an important role in the structure of opera in the eighteenth century. According to Richard Taruskin, these repeating passages are "endemic to the concertato style" which Gabrieli is credited with developing. The ritornello as a recurring tutti passage can be traced back to the music of sixteenth-century Venetian composer Giovanni Gabrieli. Literally, in Italian it means "little return". Scholars suggest that the word "ritornello" comes either from the Italian word ritorno (meaning return), or from tornando (meaning turnaround or flourish). The earliest use of the term "ritornello" in music referred to the final lines of a fourteenth-century madrigal, which were usually in a rhyme scheme and meter that contrasted with the rest of the song. A ritornello (Italian "little return") is a recurring passage in Renaissance music and Baroque music for orchestra or chorus.
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