Musicology Annotation << Back The Functions of Musical-Rhetorical Figure Exclamatio in Partes Concertos Fedorovskaya N.A. In the Russian musical culture the partes concertos have being appeared in the XVII – XVIII centuries. They often used West European music-rhetorical figures. In the work, some functions of the music-rhetorical figure exclamatio in the partes concertos have shown. This figure is strengthening the expressiveness of text, highlighting and imitating textual rhetorical figures, interpreting the ideas and images, and promote the structure of concerto. Key words – musical rhetoric, musical-rhetorical figu­res, rhetorical figures, partes consert. E-mail: fedorovska@mail.ru