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Abraham Veinus, The Concerto, rev. ed. (1964), the only broad survey in English, with good knowledge of the subject but generally not well documented; David Boyden, “When Is a Concerto Not a Concerto?” in the Musical Quarterly,43:220–232 (1957), an essential clarification of the word itself; Arnold Schering, Geschichte des Instrumentalkonzerts bis auf die Gegenwart, 2nd ed. (1927), the principal survey in any language, although now somewhat outdated and inadequate; Hans Engel, Die Entwicklung des deutschen Klavierkonzerts von Mozart bis Liszt, 2 parts (1927), the main survey of its topic, completed by Theophil Stengel, Die Entwicklung des Klavierkonzerts von Liszt bis zur Gegenwart (1931); Norman Carrell, Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos (1963), an analytic discussion, well illustrated by examples and cuts; C.M. Girdlestone, Mozart’s Piano Concertos (1948), separate analytic chapters on each of the main concerti; Ralph Hill (ed.), The Concerto (1961), an anthology of 29 articles primarily on the Romantic and Modern concerto; A.J.B. Hutchings, The Baroque Concerto (1961), inadequately documented and organized, but keen and authoritative in its observations; Pippa Drummond, The German Concerto: Five Eighteenth-Century Studies (1980), a summary of current research on five composers.
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| In The modern era (from about 1915) section, revised the number of concerti Béla Bartók wrote for the piano from “four” to “three” and for the violin from “three” to “two.” | Oct 16, 2020 | ||
| Revised discussion on solo and duo concerti in the modern era subsection. | Mar 09, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: Fact Monster - Entertainment - Concerto. | Nov 23, 2011 | ||
| Added photo illustrations. | Feb 11, 2009 | ||
| Changed aleatoric to aleatory. | Nov 10, 2006 | ||
| Bibliography revised. | Jun 15, 2006 | ||
| Audio file added. | Jun 15, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | Apr 26, 2002 | ||
| Article revised. | Sep 05, 2000 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |