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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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