Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

Concertación

English translation:

ensemble

Added to glossary by Justin Peterson
Jun 13, 2016 14:40
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Spanish term

Concertación

Spanish to English Other Music Music Education
A list of subjects at a music conservatory: Concertación. Concertación de Ópera y Zarzuela.

Composition? (But the document clearly refers to this with the term Composición)
Arrangements? (Lo mismo: Arreglos)

I can´t find this.

Music experts??

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ensemble

Let's start with the BOE definition in the curriculum for advanced musical studies:

" Concertación (Canto).-Estudio e interpretación del repertorio concertante de ópera, oratorio y zarzuela.
Profundización en las capacidades relacionadas con la comprensión y respuesta a las indicaciones del director, la integración en el conjunto vocal y su relación con el grupo instrumental acompañante.
Concertación (Dirección de Orquesta).-Estudio y práctica interpretativa del repertorio concertante vocal e instrumental (ópera, oratorio, zarzuela, conciertos para dos o más solistas etc.). Desarrollo técnico y de los conocimientos necesarios para la correcta dirección del conjunto de solistas, y la relación de éste con la orquesta o grupo orquestal acompañante.
Concertación de Ópera y Zarzuela.-(Ver Concertación de Canto)."
https://www.boe.es/diario_boe/txt.php?id=BOE-A-1999-14767

So it is part of both the singing and the conducting curricula, and in both cases it refers to the study and practice of "concertante" music, which, as "conjunto vocal" and "conjunto de solistas" indicate, means performance in a group of soloists (i.e. two or more), with accompaniment.

"concertante
1. adj. Mús. Dicho de una pieza: Compuesta de varias voces entre las cuales se distribuye el canto."
http://dle.rae.es/?id=A7oGg4d

It doesn't have to be voices; a "concertante" instrumental piece is one with two or more solo instruments, as in a sinfonia concertante.

"concertante
1: a 17th or 18th century musical composition for orchestra with parts for solo instruments or for several solo instruments without orchestra"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/concertante

So then it's about learning to perform with other vocal soloists or to conduct groups of vocal or instrumental soloists, and to coordinate with the accompaniment.

"“Concertación de repertorio teatral y camerístico” está dedicada al estudio y desarrollo de la interpretación musical en grupo del repertorio concertante de ópera, oratorio y canción. [...]
· Interpretación musical en grupo del repertorio concertante de ópera, oratorio y canción.
· Ajuste de los recursos técnicos y musicales individuales a las necesidades estilísticas e interpretativas de la obra de conjunto.
· Integración en el grupo. [...]
http://www.csmmurcia.com/2014-2015 Gu�as docentes/Concertaci�n de...

Well, I think we would call this ensemble singing or ensemble conducting. It's true that the word "ensemble" can refer to a group of musicians of any size up to an orchestra, band or chorus, but it will be understood that it doesn't refer to these, which are referred to by as such in conservatoire studies. "Ensemble" will be taken to mean small groups of soloists (two or more) and coordination, which are the two key issues here.

"ensemble 1. A specific group of singers or instrumentalists [...]
2. How well two or more musicians perform together with particular regard to rhythmic synchronicity [...]
3. An operatic or musical-theater excerpt for two or more soloists."
Matthew Hoch, A Dictionary for the Modern Singer, 59
https://books.google.es/books?id=1Y1_AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA59#v=onep...

"Ensemble singing
[...]
It will focus primarily on 'classical ensemble singing, or consort singing as it is sometimes, i.e. one voice to a part (usually no more than about eight parts [...])"
John Potter, The Cambridge Companion to Singing, 158
https://books.google.es/books?id=8T73OnRmIVIC&pg=PA158#v=one...

So ensemble singing is about groups of soloists, as opposed to choir singing.


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"Elizabeth is studying at Birmingham Conservatoire with Catherine Benson and Andrew King, specialising in early music and ensemble singing."
https://joinencore.com/Elizabeth-Adams

The following is interesting because it draws attention to the relative absence of this subject in UK conservatoires:

"Ensemble Singing, Singing Teachers and the Pavarotti syndrome.
British universities (not just Oxbridge) produce a huge number of outstanding ensemble singers, who for decades have sustained successful professional choirs from the Monteverdi Choir (recently described on Radio 3 as the best choir in the world) to The Sixteen and a plethora of creative ensembles from the Hilliard Ensemble to Juice. Conservatories don’t really do ensemble singing (being still geared to the mass production of conventional soloists)"
http://www.john-potter.co.uk/blog/2010/12/30/ensemble-singin...
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agree philgoddard : That's it! I knew there was a word...
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Thanks, Phil!
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks. Yes, the idea was "Ensemble Singing" - multiple vocalists, one piano"
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Harmony

According to this site: http://www.coscyl.com/documentos/GuiasDocentes/Concertacion_...

"Una parte [del repertorio] muy importante debe ser interpretada por varios solistas a la vez. Esto requiere no solo el estudio de las opras propias ... sino también el desarrollo de las cualidades técnicas, estéticas e interpretativas para poder interactuar musical y personalmente dentro de un grupo de solistas en la creación de una obra común."

If you want to make it clear that this is producing harmony and not studying harmony, you could call the class "Vocal Skills: Harmony" or something similar.
Peer comment(s):

neutral philgoddard : Based on your reference, I don't think it's about harmony as such, or vocal skills. It sounds more like "group performance" or something like that.
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potayto, potahto? I'm a classical singer and I feel comfortable calling what I read in that Spanish link 'harmony'. 'Group performance' is fine descriptively, but I just can't envision it as the name of a class
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Performance

[1st link]
Course Codes for Registration
SPRING 2015
Undergraduate Students: MUSPF 370 Opera Performance Preparation and performance of a fully staged opera. May be taken four times for credit.
Prereq: audition and perm. dept; Coreq: MUSPF 401 or 431 in voice; 3 hrs, 3 cr.

[2nd link]
AE Opera Performance Class - San Francisco, CA

Concertación de Ópera y Oratorio
http://www.coscyl.com/documentos/GuiasDocentes/Concertacion_...

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Note the in the “Concertación de Ópera y Oratorio” link, the in-class performances can be comprised of duos on up to whatever the makeup of the actual class is. There is a difference bet. a performance class and an ensemble.

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This year she sang Ann Putnam in Act I of The Crucible, Amina in La Sonnambula, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, and Tatyana in Eugene Onegin in the Mannes Opera Class Concert Scenes.
http://martinaarroyofdn.org/Photos 2011/Participants 2011 mo...
Peer comment(s):

neutral Charles Davis : Hi Sandro. The doc. you and Tim have cited refers to "varios solistas a la vez" and to "grupo de solistas" from the opening paragraph. Vocal perf. could be solo or indeed choral, and it's neither of those. NB. BOE def. says "Estudio e interp."
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The "varios solistas a la vez" is when they're doing musicals. When I took ensemble classes it was set to specific instrumentation; when I took performance classes, they were handled w/ whoever signed up for the class, regardless of instruments.
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