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Solo (music) 1
Solo (music)
Trumpeter, bandleader and singer Louis
Armstrong: as soloist.
In music, a solo (from the Italian: solo, meaning alone, even though
assolo is now used in Italy when referring to the musical solo) is a
piece or a section of a piece played or sung by a single performer. In
practice this means a number of different things, depending on the type
of music and the context.
The word is also used for the act of performing a solo, and sometimes
for the performer (more often a soloist).
The plural is soli or the anglicised form solos. In some context these
are interchangeable, but soli tends to be restricted to classical music,
and tends to refer to either the solo performers or the solo passages in a
single piece: it would not often be used to refer to several pieces that
happen to be for single performers. 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.
18th century
In the Baroque and Classical periods, the word solo was virtually equivalent to sonata, and could refer either to a
piece for one meloy instrument with (continuo) accompaniment, or to a sonata for an unaccompanied melody
instrument, such as Johann Sebastian Bachs sonatas for violin alone.[1]
Jazz
In many jazz performances, each number will alternate ensemble sections with solo sections where one performer is
playing either completely alone, or with unobtrusive accompaniment from the others. Common examples are the
rhythm section of jazz bands, and quiet background music by other wind instruments. Such solos are most often
improvised.
Popular music
In popular music a solo refers to a "crowd-pleasing" improvised melody[2]
played by a single or featured performer
and may also refer to a drum solo. Use of the term solo appears to follow from jazz and, though they are often
pre-composed or originally improvised, the expectation that solos be improvised continues, especially in certain
genres. In the country music genre a solo is known as a ride.
Sources
[1] David Fuller, "Solo", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London:
Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
[2] Miller, Michael (2004). The Complete Idiot's Guide to Solos & Improv. ISBN 1-59257-210-3.
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