a concertato style. These pieces, no longer always called motets, were given a variety of names including concerto, Psalm (if a psalm setting), sinfonia, or symphoniae (for example in Heinrich Schütz's three books of Symphoniae sacrae). The concertato style made possible the composition of extremely dramatic music, one of the characteristic innovations of the early Baroque. Composers of music in concertato style Giovanni Croce Ignazio Donati Andrea Gabrieli Giovanni Gabrieli Alessandro Grandi Johann Kaspar Kerll Claudio Monteverdi Michael Praetorius Samuel Scheidt Johann Hermann Schein Heinrich Schütz Lodovico Viadana Sources Manfred Bukofzer, Music in the Baroque Era. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1947. () The New Harvard Dictionary of Music, ed. Don Randel. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1986. () Article "concertato" in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980. () Musical techniques Renaissance music Baroque music