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How would the soloist in a concerto let the conductor know that a cadenza was ending?

Instead of repeating the exposition in the first movement of a Classical solo concerto, the composer wrote the themes out two or more times so that both the soloist and the orchestra had an opportunity to play them.  What is the term for this form?

Classical cadenzas were usually:

Who was the greatest violin making family of the Baroque Period?

Who was one of the most influential composers of the early Renaissance motet?

A prolific composer of secular cantatas was

A dramatic work for soloists and chorus that is fairly short and not staged is a…

Music of the Baroque period was as ornamented as architecture and paintings of the period.

The earliest surviving opera was written by

A composition that uses imitative polyphony (where one voice imitates the other) and is organized around the returns of a theme is called: