Identify at least two musical features that enabled the Baroque concerto grosso to generate that prized facet of the era:drama
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: terraced dynamics, contrast between major and minor keys, the tension resulting between the concertino's
virtuosic elaboration and the tutti's repetition of ritornello themes
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