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Full: the whole ensemble, as opposed to the solo concertino group.
Printed as a staff label or above a part (Ripieno, rip., ripieni) in Baroque and early Classical scores to mark the full ensemble, as distinct from the concertino or soloists; senza ripieno leaves the soloists alone. It may also label a voice or instrument that joins only in tutti passages.
Abbreviations: rip.
The ripieno against the concertino is the engine of the concerto grosso: the full body supplies weight and the ritornello, the small group the detail. Bach adds a ripieno choir to sing the chorale in the opening chorus of the St Matthew Passion. In modern scores the same idea is written tutti and solo.
Ripieno is one of 1755 terms in the Gradus musical dictionary: the words, abbreviations and instrument names that appear in printed scores, plus the vocabulary composers use to talk about them.
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