A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Ripieno

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From volume 3 of the work.

2603503A Dictionary of Music and Musicians — RipienoGeorge GroveJ. A. Fuller-Maitland

RIPIENO, 'supplementary.' The name given to the accompanying instruments in the orchestras, and especially in the orchestral concertos of the 17th and 18th centuries, which were only employed to fill in the harmonies and to support the solo or 'concertante' parts. [See Concertante, vol. i. p. 385b.]

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