ABSTRACT
The Concert Sinfonia usually consists of five movements: a short introductory adagio, an allegro, a slow movement, the minuet with its second minuet or trio, and the finale. The introduction is less necessary to the constitution of a Sinfonia than the other movements, yet it is often the subiimest part of the whole. The minuets are agitated and eccentric - the trios melodious, contriving some pleasing solo or concertante passages. The finales are capricious, rapid and wild. Such is the general description of a modern sinfonia. The allegro is very singular in its subject and general character. Of the various kinds of modern Instrumental music that which possesses most grandeur, beauty and science must upon the whole be superior. Such appears to be the Concert Sinfonia. Solos, duets and perhaps trios for other instruments seldom contain much that deserves high commendation.
