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The Scoring of Early Classical Concertos, 1750-1780

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The sequel to Richard Maunder's The Scoring of Baroque Concertos

In the baroque era most concertos were - in the modern sense of the term - chamber music, to be played by a small group of musicians each reading from an individual printed or manuscript part. Indeed, composers often expected thesoloist to be accompanied by just a string quartet with a harpsichord or organ continuo. But over the thirty years from 1750, as the classical style was being developed, numbers began to rise slowly. Th...