Resources on the Concerto in ARMA

ARMA includes full scores of selected concertos from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries. As with other pieces, the articles on Genres and Forms from various style periods offer some useful backgrounds to use with your students. Specifically, the articles on Genres and Forms in the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic style periods are particularly useful. When your students encounter topic-specific terminology, they may find ARMA's Glossary to be a useful starting point.

The scores for concertos in ARMA include:

Baroque Works
• Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no. 5, BWV 1050, movement 1
• Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no. 5, BWV 1050, movements 2 and 3
• Corelli: Concerto Grosso, op. 6, no. 2
• Corelli: Concerto Grosso, op. 6, no. 8
• Vivaldi: Concerto Grosso in G Minor for Two Violins and Orchestra, op. 3, no. 2
• Vivaldi: Concerto in A major for Violin and Orchestra, op. 9, no. 2
• Vivaldi: Concerto in A minor for Two Violins and Orchestra, op. 3 no. 8
• Vivaldi: Concerto in A minor for Violin and Orchestra, op 3, no. 6
  Classical Works
• Lombardini Sirmen: Violin Concerto no. 1
• Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 9 in E-flat major, K. 271
• Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 23 in A major, K. 488, movement 1
• Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 23 in A major, K. 488, movement 2
• Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 23 in A major, K. 488, movement 3
  Romantic Works
• Beethoven: Piano Concerto no. 4, op. 58, movement 1
• Beethoven: Piano Concerto no. 4, op. 58, movement 2
• Beethoven: Piano Concerto no. 4, op. 58, movement 3
• Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto, Op. 64, movement 1
• Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto, Op. 64, movement 2
• Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto, Op. 64, movement 3
Twentieth-Century Works
• Schnittke: Concerto grosso no. 1 (1976-1977)
• Webern: Concerto, Op. 24

ARMA also contains commentaries on selected concertos:

• Vivaldi: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 3, no. 6 (Commentary) by Emily Laurence, et al.
• Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no. 5, BWV 1050 (Commentary) by Jonathan Rhodes Lee
• Mozart: Piano Concerto 9 in E-flat major, K. 271 (commentary) by Rob Haskins
• Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 23 in A major, K. 488 (commentary) by Rob Haskins

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