Solo (music)

A music Solo ( it. solo: "alone", Pl. solos ) is an element of a musical piece in which the soloist is playing an instrument alone or acoustically lifted in the foreground accompanied by other instruments.

In the classical orchestra, the solo is in contrast to the tutti, especially at the stringed instruments that play each other the same voice in groups. In the Baroque Concerto Grosso musical form based on the interplay between tutti and solo passages. Here is the solo ( in contrast to most other uses of this term ) usually is not a single instrument in the foreground, but a group of instruments, but each run their own voice for themselves.

In music, mainly from the 19th and 20th century, the statement can appear even in solo soloists that voices like the winds. There she makes the musicians attention to a solo, particularly exposed in unison passage and requires an emergence of the voice.

In jazz solos are of central importance. The short fills and the slightly larger, the boundaries between moldings marking breaks are solo activities; of a " solo " but typically speaking, when an entire form part or the whole piece is marked solo. A solo jazz is often improvised, in rock music rather rare. Well-known guitar solos of rock music can be heard in November Rain or Metallica Master of Puppets as well as in Orion, for example, by Pink Floyd Comfortably Numb, by Led Zeppelin in Stairway to Heaven, Genesis Firth of Fifth, by Guns N 'Roses.