Wrong tree,

my bad. I'd like to not bark up the wrong tree at least once before I graduate, or at least before I die. It would be really cool to be into someone, who was also into me. And it would be nice to make a move away from the ambiguous, questioning, misleading, easily misinterpreted straight guys, too. This is more or less a Flg. specific issue as of late though. Anyway.

By the way, the concerto was becoming a highly developed genre by this time, and had already been adopted by Bach years before with his own Brandenburg concertos as well as his transcriptions of Vivaldi's concertos and his own into concertos for harpsichord. Furthermore, many of Bach's contemporaries were writing concertos at this same time including, but not limited to, Handel, Telemann, Corelli, and Albinoni, just to name a few.

Concerted music had also become the norm by now with a capella music falling out of favor. Examples of this include much of Bach's cantatas, his passions, his mass segments, and his Missae as well as various mass settings from all over, like Dresden which featured the rich, virtuostic masses of Zelenka.