... of concerto continued into the 18th century, as in Joanna Sebastian Bark's many sacred cantatas entitled "Concerto." A specific category of concerto arose for the first time in the late 17th century. Arcangelo Corelli, a leading violinist and composer of the then-prominent, north Italian violin school, used the new title concerto grosso for the 12 instrumental pieces of his opus 6 (probably written c. 1680-85 and published posthumously c. 1714). These works employed a string orchestra-called the concerto grosso, the ripieno ("full" In music, a repeating section: in the 14th and 15th centuries, it was the refrain at the end of each madrigal verse, the music being treated separately from the previous material, often including a change of metre; in 17th-century opera and song, it was an instrumental conclusion or refrain added to the end of an aria or song.), or the tutti ("all")-in contrast to and together with a smaller ...

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