a public musical performance in which a number of singers or instrumentalists, or both, participate.
2.
a public performance, usually by an individual singer, instrumentalist, or the like; recital: The violinist has given concerts all over the world.
3.
agreement of two or more individuals in a design or plan; combined action; accord or harmony: His plan was greeted with a concert of abuse.
–adjective
4.
designed or intended for concerts: concert hall.
5.
performed at concerts: concert music.
6.
performing or capable of performing at concerts: a concert pianist.
–verb (used with object)
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to contrive or arrange by agreement: They were able to concert a settlement of their differences.
8.
to plan; devise: A program of action was concerted at the meeting.
–verb (used without object)
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to plan or act together.
—Idiom
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in concert, together; jointly: to act in concert.
[Origin: 1595–1605; (n.) < F < It concerto; see concerto; (v.) < F concerter < It concertare to organize, arrange by mutual agreement, perh. parasynthetically from con with + certocertain; L concertāre (see concertation) is remote in sense]
concert, in music, public performance of a group of musical compositions. Originally the word referred simply to a group of musicians playing together; concerts by a solo performer are properly called recitals. The earliest recorded public concerts were organized by a London violinist, John Banister, in 1672. Many orchestral concerts were given in the 18th cent., and early in the 19th cent., which saw great development of concert life; public concerts of chamber music were often given. In the American colonies, the first concert on record took place in Boston in 1731.
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