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Concerting

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con⋅cert

  [n., adj. kon-surt, -sert; v. kuhn-surt]
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–noun
1. 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)
7. 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)
9. to plan or act together.
—Idiom
10. 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 + certo certain; L concertāre (see concertation ) is remote in sense
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con·cert   (kŏn'sûrt', -sərt)   
n.  

  1. Music A performance given by one or more singers or instrumentalists or both.

    1. Agreement in purpose, feeling, or action.

    2. Unity achieved by mutual communication of views, ideas, and opinions: acted in concert on the issue.

    3. Concerted action: "One feels between them an accumulation of gentleness and strength, a concert of energies" (Vanity Fair).

v.   (kən-sûrt') con·cert·ed, con·cert·ing, con·certs

v.   tr.

  1. To plan or arrange by mutual agreement.

  2. To adjust; settle.

v.   intr.
To act together in harmony.

[French, from Italian concerto, from Old Italian, agreement, harmony, from concertare, to bring into agreement, possibly from Vulgar Latin *concertāre, to settle by argument, from Latin, to debate : con-, com- + certāre, to contend, frequentative of cernere, to separate, decide by fighting; see krei- in Indo-European roots.]
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Word Origin & History

concert  (n.)
1665, from Fr., from It. concerto "concert, harmony," from concertare "bring into agreement," in L. "to contend, contest," from com- "with" + certare "to contend, strive," freq. of certus, var. pp. of cernere "separate, decide" (see crisis). Before the word entered Eng., meaning shifted from "to strive against" to "to strive alongside." But Klein considers this too much of a stretch and suggests L. concentare "to sing together" (from con- + cantare "to sing") as the source of the It. word. Sense of "public musical performance" is 1689. Concerto was borrowed 1730 directly from It. as a musical term.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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