Magrathean
worldbuilder
Ok, how about "technical bridge"? Seriously, i don't know, i'm not a terminology expert. I only commented on the wrong usage of the word 'solo'. I don't know another word for "technical, attention-catching bridge".
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6 Stringed Fingers
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Since there aren't many solos in the world, why not just call them "solos"? That makes things easier for everyone. 
King Chaos
Pomeo Osoponeor
@ Undo... It is, unfortunately, known as a solo when one instrument takes a more decorated passage and plays it in a progression, be it with or without instrumental backing. The only composers I can think of who would suck all accompaniment out under solos (and only rarely) were late romantic/C20th composers like Shostakovich or slightly earlier, Rakhmaninov. But listen to any of the Brandenberg Concertos (J.S Bach), and look at the scores (if you ever get the chance), clearly marked with violin solo while the choral progressions continue to jump around in a frantic but cohesive fashion. My point being, solo sections can be majorly polyphonic or completely monophonic. Choice of timbre as an element in music doesn't affect structure or form in anyway nowadays (maybe ritornello form contradicts that statement, but then I hold, not many people write like that anymore).
Magrathean
worldbuilder
KC: So this is another example of a word which has lost its original/litteral meaning and come to mean something else through common usage...
King Chaos
Pomeo Osoponeor
Sort of... although when the first ever solo occured, I doubt everything in the universe as we understand it stopped any and all kinetic and audible activity.
