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As already suggested, the first category of music to be associated significantly with the term concerto was that of the vocal-instrumental concerto. If this category is sometimes incorporated only incidentally into overall accounts of the concerto, the reasons lie, first, in its lack of clear identification with any one type of musical form and, second, in the longer, more vivid association of all later categories of the concerto with music exclusively for instruments. Both the early association of the word with vocal-instrumental combinations and the lack of a clear, identifiable musical form are apparent in the important discussion of the ...(100 of 13178 words)