Concertante

[It., from concerto.] ( Mus.) A term expre ive of those parts of a musical composition that are especially prominent throughout the piece; as distinguished from those that play only in accompaniment, or subordinate parts. Concert'ed, p. a. Mutually planned or contrived. "Some have written...conce ively." - Browne. Conces's ory, a. Conceding; yielding; granting. Concet'tism, n. [It. concetto.] Affected conceits found in poetry. (R.) Concetto, n.; pl . CONCETTI. [It. See CONCEIT.] ( Lit. ) Ingenious thought or turn of expre ion, point, jeu d'esprit, ., in serious composition. In the 16th century, the taste for this species of brilliancy, often false, and always dangerous, spread rapidly in the poetical compositions of European nations, especially in Spain and Italy. Ta o is not free from concetti. After his time they became offensively prominent in Italian poetry. In France, the mode of concetti was equally prevalent in the 17th century, and was peculiarly in vogue with the fair critics of the Hôtel Rambouillet, so well known by Molière's Précieuses Ridicules . In England, Donne and Cowley are instances of a style full of concetti. Conch, ( kongh ,) n. [Lat. concha ; Gr. kong - che ; Sansk. cankhá. A marine shell. - One of the inhabitants of the Bahamas and adjacent islands; so called from the commonne of the conch-shell there. (Colloq.) ( Arch .) The concave rible surface of a vault. (Sometimes written concha.)