Cantata, the Glossary
A cantata (literally "sung", past participle feminine singular of the Italian verb cantare, "to sing") is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements, often involving a choir.[1]
Table of Contents
158 relations: A Sermon, a Narrative and a Prayer, Accompaniment, Alan Hovhaness, Alberto Ginastera, Alexander Nevsky (Prokofiev), Allan Pettersson, Anton Bruckner, Anton Webern, Aria, Arnold Schoenberg, Arthur Honegger, Bach Gesellschaft, Basso continuo, Béla Bartók, Benjamin Britten, Bertolt Brecht, Cantata (Stravinsky), Cantata academica, Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution, Cantata Profana, Carl Maria von Weber, Carl Orff, Carlos Chávez, Carmina Burana (Orff), Chalumeau, Chamber music, Choir, Choral symphony, Christian liturgy, Christmas cantata, Christmas Oratorio, Christoph Graupner, Church cantata, Church cantata (Bach), Da capo aria, Daniel Pinkham, Das klagende Lied, Dave Brubeck, David Tunley, Der glorreiche Augenblick, Die erste Walpurgisnacht, Dieterich Buxtehude, Dimitri Nicolau, Dmitri Shostakovich, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Dona nobis pacem (Vaughan Williams), Earl Robinson, El Cimarrón (Henze), Erik Bergman, Ernst Krenek, ... Expand index (108 more) »
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A Sermon, a Narrative and a Prayer
A Sermon, a Narrative and a Prayer is a cantata for alto and tenor singers, a narrator, chorus, and orchestra by Igor Stravinsky, composed in 1960–61.
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Accompaniment
Accompaniment is the musical part which provides the rhythmic and/or harmonic support for the melody or main themes of a song or instrumental piece.
Alan Hovhaness
Alan Hovhaness (March 8, 1911 – June 21, 2000) was an American composer of Armenian ancestry.
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Alberto Ginastera
Alberto Evaristo Ginastera (April 11, 1916June 25, 1983) was an Argentine composer of classical music.
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Alexander Nevsky (Prokofiev)
Alexander Nevsky (Александр Невский) is the score composed by Sergei Prokofiev for Sergei Eisenstein's 1938 film Alexander Nevsky.
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Gustaf Allan Pettersson (19 September 1911 – 20 June 1980) was a Swedish composer and violist.
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Anton Bruckner
Josef Anton Bruckner (4 September 182411 October 1896) was an Austrian composer and organist best known for his symphonies and sacred music, which includes Masses, Te Deum and motets.
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Anton Webern
Anton Webern (3 December 1883 – 15 September 1945) was an Austrian composer, conductor, and musicologist.
Aria
In music, an aria (arie,; arias in common usage; diminutive form: arietta,;: ariette; in English simply air) is a self-contained piece for one voice, with or without instrumental or orchestral accompaniment, normally part of a larger work.
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Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian and American composer, music theorist, teacher and writer.
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Arthur Honegger
Arthur Honegger (10 March 1892 – 27 November 1955) was a Swiss composer who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris.
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Bach Gesellschaft
The German Bach-Gesellschaft (Bach Society) was a society formed in 1850 for the express purpose of publishing the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach without editorial additions.
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Basso continuo
Basso continuo parts, almost universal in the Baroque era (1600–1750), provided the harmonic structure of the music by supplying a bassline and a chord progression.
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Béla Bartók
Béla Viktor János Bartók (25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist.
Benjamin Britten
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist.
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Bertolt Brecht
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.
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Cantata (Stravinsky)
The Cantata by Igor Stravinsky is a work for soprano, tenor, female choir, and instrumental ensemble (of two flutes, oboe, cor anglais (doubling second oboe), and cello), and was composed from April 1951 to August 1952.
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Cantata academica
Cantata academica, Carmen basiliense, Op.
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Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution
The Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution, Op.
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Cantata Profana
Cantata Profana (subtitled A kilenc csodaszarvas, Sz 94) is a work for tenor, baritone, double mixed chorus and orchestra by the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók.
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Carl Maria von Weber
Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (5 June 1826) was a German composer, conductor, virtuoso pianist, guitarist, and critic of the early Romantic period.
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Carl Orff
Carl Heinrich Maria Orff (10 July 1895 – 29 March 1982) was a German composer and music educator, who composed the cantata Carmina Burana (1937).
Carlos Chávez
Carlos Antonio de Padua Chávez y Ramírez (13 June 1899 – 2 August 1978) was a Mexican composer, conductor, music theorist, educator, journalist, and founder and director of the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra.
Carmina Burana (Orff)
Carmina Burana is a cantata composed in 1935 and 1936 by Carl Orff, based on 24 poems from the medieval collection Carmina Burana.
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Chalumeau
The chalumeau (plural chalumeaux) is a single-reed woodwind instrument of the late baroque and early classical eras.
Chamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Cantata and chamber music are classical music styles.
Choir
A choir (also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers.
Choral symphony
A choral symphony is a musical composition for orchestra, choir, and sometimes solo vocalists that, in its internal workings and overall musical architecture, adheres broadly to symphonic musical form.
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Christian liturgy
Christian liturgy is a pattern for worship used (whether recommended or prescribed) by a Christian congregation or denomination on a regular basis.
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Christmas cantata
A Christmas cantata or Nativity cantata is a cantata, music for voice or voices in several movements, for Christmas.
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Christmas Oratorio
The Christmas Oratorio (German: Weihnachtsoratorium),, is an oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach intended for performance in church during the Christmas season.
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Christoph Graupner
Christoph Graupner (10 May 1760) was a German composer and harpsichordist of late Baroque music who was a contemporary of Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann and George Frideric Handel.
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Church cantata
A church cantata or sacred cantata is a cantata intended to be performed during Christian liturgy.
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Church cantata (Bach)
Throughout his life as a musician, Johann Sebastian Bach composed cantatas for both secular and sacred use.
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Da capo aria
The da capo aria is a musical form for arias that was prevalent in the Baroque era.
Daniel Pinkham
Daniel Rogers Pinkham Jr. (June 5, 1923 – December 18, 2006) was an American composer, organist, and harpsichordist.
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Das klagende Lied
Das klagende Lied (Song of Lamentation) is a cantata by Gustav Mahler, composed between 1878 and 1880 and greatly revised over the next two decades.
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Dave Brubeck
David Warren Brubeck (December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012) was an American jazz pianist and composer.
David Tunley
David Evatt Tunley (3 May 1930 – 23 June 2024) was an Australian musicologist and occasional composer, noted for his work on François Couperin and French music in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Der glorreiche Augenblick
Der glorreiche Augenblick, Op. 136 (The glorious moment) is a cantata by Ludwig van Beethoven.
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Die erste Walpurgisnacht
Die erste Walpurgisnacht (The First Walpurgis Night) is a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe telling of efforts by Druids in the Harz Mountains to practice their pagan rituals in the face of new and dominating Christian forces.
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Dieterich Buxtehude
Dieterich Buxtehude (born Diderich Hansen Buxtehude,; – 9 May 1707) was a Danish organist and composer of the Baroque period, whose works are typical of the North German organ school.
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Dimitri Nicolau
Dimitri Nicolau (21 October 1946 in Keratea, Greece - 29 March 2008 in Rome, Italy) was a composer, stage director, conductor, musicologist, writer and professor.
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Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was regarded as a major composer.
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Dmitry Kabalevsky
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky (Дми́трий Бори́сович Кабале́вский; 14 February 1987) was a Soviet composer, conductor, pianist and pedagogue of Russian gentry descent.
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Dona nobis pacem (Vaughan Williams)
Dona nobis pacem (Grant us peace) is a cantata written by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1936 and first performed on 2 October of that year.
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Earl Robinson
Earl Hawley Robinson (July 2, 1910 – July 20, 1991) was an American composer, arranger and folk music singer-songwriter from Seattle, Washington.
El Cimarrón (Henze)
El Cimarrón (The Runaway Slave) is a scenic vocal composition by the German composer Hans Werner Henze, written when the composer lived in Cuba in 1969–1970.
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Erik Bergman
Erik Valdemar Bergman (24 November 1911, in Nykarleby – 24 April 2006, in Helsinki) was a composer of classical music from Finland.
Ernst Krenek
Ernst Heinrich Krenek (23 August 1900 – 22 December 1991) was an Austrian, later American, composer.
Felix Mendelssohn
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period.
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Festive Cantata (Bruckner)
The italic, WAB 16, is a festive cantata composed by Anton Bruckner in 1862 for the celebration of the laying of the foundation stone of the new ''Mariä-Empfängnis-Dom'' of Linz.
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Figure humaine
Figure humaine (Human Figure), FP 120, by Francis Poulenc is a cantata for double mixed choir of 12 voices composed in 1943 on texts by Paul Éluard including "'Liberté".
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Five Tudor Portraits
Five Tudor Portraits (1935), by Ralph Vaughan Williams, is a work scored for contralto (or mezzo-soprano), baritone, mixed chorus and orchestra.
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Flûte d'amour
The flûte d'amour (flauto d'amore; Liebesflöte; all translating as "love flute"), sometimes called a Mezzo-Soprano flute (flûte ténor; flauto tenore; Tenorflöte), is an uncommon member of the Western concert flute family, pitched in A, A, or B and is intermediate in size between the modern C concert flute and the alto flute in G.
Francis Poulenc
Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (7 January 189930 January 1963) was a French composer and pianist.
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Friedhelm Krummacher
Friedhelm Krummacher (born 22 January 1936) is a German musicologist.
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Fugue
In classical music, a fugue is a contrapuntal, polyphonic compositional technique in two or more voices, built on a subject (a musical theme) that is introduced at the beginning in imitation (repetition at different pitches), which recurs frequently throughout the course of the composition. Cantata and fugue are classical music styles.
Georg Philipp Telemann
Georg Philipp Telemann (– 25 June 1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist.
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George Frideric Handel
George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (baptised italic,; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque composer well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concertos.
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Germanenzug
Germanenzug (WAB 70) is a secular, patriotic cantata composed in 1863–1864 by Anton Bruckner on a text by August Silberstein.
Giacomo Carissimi
(Gian) Giacomo Carissimi (baptized 18 April 160512 January 1674) was an Italian composer and music teacher.
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Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel
Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel (13 January 1690 – 27 November 1749) was a German composer of the Baroque era.
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Gottfried von Einem
Gottfried von Einem (24 January 1918 – 12 July 1996) was an Austrian composer.
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Gurre-Lieder
(Songs of Gurre) is a tripartite oratorio followed by a melodramatic epilogue for five vocal soloists, narrator, three choruses, and grand orchestra.
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation.
Hans Werner Henze
Hans Werner Henze (1 July 1926 – 27 October 2012) was a German composer.
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Hector Berlioz
Louis-Hector Berlioz (11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French Romantic composer and conductor.
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Heinrich Schütz
Heinrich Schütz (6 November 1672) was a German early Baroque composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and one of the most important composers of the 17th century.
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Heitor Villa-Lobos
Heitor Villa-Lobos (March 5, 1887November 17, 1959) was a Brazilian composer, conductor, cellist, and classical guitarist described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music".
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Helgoland (Bruckner)
Helgoland, WAB 71, is a secular, patriotic cantata for male choir and orchestra, composed by Anton Bruckner in 1893.
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Henry Purcell
Henry Purcell (rare:; September 1659 – 21 November 1695) was an English composer of Baroque music.
Herbert Blendinger
Herbert Blendinger (3 January 1936 - 15 May 2020) was an Austrian composer and viola player of German origin.
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Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147
Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben (Heart and mouth and deed and life), 147 in 1723 during his first year as Thomaskantor, the director of church music in Leipzig.
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High culture
In a society, high culture encompasses cultural objects of aesthetic value, which a society collectively esteems as being exemplary works of art, and the intellectual works of literature and music, history and philosophy, which a society considers representative of their culture.
Hildegard Jone
Hildegard Jone (1 June 1891 – 28 August 1963) was an Austrian poet and artist.
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Horn (instrument)
A horn is any of a family of musical instruments made of a tube, usually made of metal and often curved in various ways, with one narrow end into which the musician blows, and a wide end from which sound emerges.
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Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (– 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with French citizenship (from 1934) and American citizenship (from 1945).
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Il canto sospeso
Il canto sospeso (The Suspended Song) is a cantata for vocal soloists, choir, and orchestra by the Italian composer Luigi Nono, written in 1955–56.
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Instrumental
An instrumental or instrumental song is music normally without any vocals, although it might include some inarticulate vocals, such as shouted backup vocals in a big band setting.
Italian language
Italian (italiano,, or lingua italiana) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire.
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Ivan Moody (composer)
Ivan Moody (11 June 1964 in London – 18 January 2024 in Lisbon) was a British composer and musicologist.
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Iván Erőd
Iván Erőd (italic; 2 January 1936 – 24 June 2019; sometimes spelled Eröd) was a Hungarian-Austrian composer and pianist.
Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, BWV 51
Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen ("Exult in God in every land" or "Shout for joy to God in all lands") 51, in Leipzig.
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Jón Leifs
Jón Leifs (born Jón Þorleifsson on 1 May 1899 – 30 July 1968) was an Icelandic composer, pianist, and conductor.
Jörg Widmann
Jörg Widmann (born 19 June 1973) is a German composer, conductor and clarinetist.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath and writer, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language.
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Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms (7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period.
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John Henry Maunder
John Henry Maunder (21 February 1858 – 21 January 1920) was an English composer and organist best known for his cantata "Olivet to Calvary".
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John Stanley (composer)
Charles John Stanley (17 January 1712 Old Style – 19 May 1786) was an English composer and organist.
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John Tyrrell (musicologist)
John Tyrrell (17 August 1942 – 4 October 2018) was a British musicologist.
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Joseph Ryelandt
Joseph Ryelandt (7 April 1870 – 29 June 1965) was a Belgian classical composer.
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Kantate (Widmann)
Kantate (Cantata) for soli, choir, organ and orchestra is a work by German composer Jörg Widmann.
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Karlheinz Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen (22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries.
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Krzysztof Penderecki
Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki (23 November 1933 – 29 March 2020) was a Polish composer and conductor.
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Kurt Weill
Kurt Julian Weill (March 2, 1900April 3, 1950) was a German-born American composer active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States.
Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt
The Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt (Landgrafschaft Hessen-Darmstadt) was a State of the Holy Roman Empire, ruled by a younger branch of the House of Hesse.
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Libby Larsen
Elizabeth Brown Larsen (born December 24, 1950) is a contemporary American classical composer.
List of Bach cantatas
This is a sortable list of Bach cantatas, the cantatas composed by Johann Sebastian Bach.
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List of cantatas by Christoph Graupner
This is a list of church cantatas by Christoph Graupner (1683–1760), the German harpsichordist and composer of high Baroque music. Cantata and list of cantatas by Christoph Graupner are cantatas.
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List of compositions by Francis Poulenc
This is a list of works written by the French composer Francis Poulenc (1899–1963).
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Lobgesang
Lobgesang (Hymn of Praise), Op. 52 (MWV A 18), is an 11-movement "Symphony-Cantata on Words of the Holy Bible for Soloists, Choir and Orchestra" by Felix Mendelssohn.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist.
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Luigi Nono
Luigi Nono (29 January 1924 – 8 May 1990) was an Italian avant-garde composer of classical music.
Lukas Foss
Lukas Foss (August 15, 1922 – February 1, 2009) was a German-American composer, pianist, and conductor.
Lutheranism
Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestantism that identifies primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Church ended the Middle Ages and, in 1517, launched the Reformation.
Madrigal
A madrigal is a form of secular vocal music most typical of the Renaissance (15th–16th centuries) and early Baroque (1600–1750) periods, although revisited by some later European composers.
Mark Alburger
Mark Alburger (born April 2, 1957 in Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania; died June 20, 2023 in Vacaville, California) was a San Francisco Bay area composer and conductor.
Michael Kennedy (music critic)
George Michael Sinclair Kennedy CBE (19 February 1926 – 31 December 2014) was an English music critic and author who specialized in classical music.
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Michael Tippett
Sir Michael Kemp Tippett (2 January 1905 – 8 January 1998) was an English composer who rose to prominence during and immediately after the Second World War.
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Mikis Theodorakis
Michail "Mikis" Theodorakis (Μιχαήλ "Μίκης" Θεοδωράκης; 29 July 1925 – 2 September 2021) was a Greek composer and lyricist credited with over 1,000 works.
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Momente
Momente (Moments) is a work by the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, written between 1962 and 1969, scored for solo soprano, four mixed choirs, and thirteen instrumentalists (four trumpets, four trombones, three percussionists, and two electric keyboards).
Motet
In Western classical music, a motet is mainly a vocal musical composition, of highly diverse form and style, from high medieval music to the present. Cantata and motet are classical music styles.
Movement (music)
A movement is a self-contained part of a musical composition or musical form.
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Musical composition
Musical composition can refer to an original piece or work of music, either vocal or instrumental, the structure of a musical piece or to the process of creating or writing a new piece of music.
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Musical instrument
A musical instrument is a device created or adapted to make musical sounds.
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Name day
In Christianity, a name day is a tradition in many countries of Europe and the Americas, among other parts of Christendom.
Ned Rorem
Ned Miller Rorem (October 23, 1923 – November 18, 2022) was an American composer of contemporary classical music and a writer.
Nigel Fortune
Nigel Cameron Fortune (5 December 1924 – 10 April 2009) was an English musicologist and political activist.
Norman Dello Joio
Norman Dello Joio (January 24, 1913July 24, 2008) was an American composer active for over half a century.
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Oboe d'amore
The paren;, less commonly, is a double reed woodwind musical instrument in the oboe family.
Opera
Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Cantata and Opera are classical music styles.
Oratorio
An oratorio is a musical composition with dramatic or narrative text for choir, soloists and orchestra or other ensemble. Cantata and oratorio are classical music styles.
Osvald Chlubna
Osvald Chlubna (July 22, 1893 in Brno – October 30, 1971 in Brno) was a prominent Czech composer.
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Paul Éluard
Paul Éluard, born Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (14 December 1895 – 18 November 1952), was a French poet and one of the founders of the Surrealist movement.
Paul Hindemith
Paul Hindemith (16 November 189528 December 1963) was a German and American composer, music theorist, teacher, violist and conductor.
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Peter Maxwell Davies
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (8 September 1934 – 14 March 2016) was an English composer and conductor, who in 2004 was made Master of the Queen's Music.
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Peter Mennin
Peter Mennin (born Mennini; May 17, 1923 – June 17, 1983) was a prominent American composer, teacher and administrator.
Phaedra (cantata)
Phaedra, Op.
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Philipp Spitta
Julius August Philipp Spitta (27 December 1841 – 13 April 1894) was a German music historian and musicologist best known for his 1873 biography of Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Prix de Rome
The Prix de Rome or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France.
Prix de Rome cantatas (Berlioz)
The French composer Hector Berlioz made four attempts at winning the Prix de Rome music prize, finally succeeding in 1830.
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Psalm 146 (Bruckner)
Psalm 146 in A major (WAB 37) by Anton Bruckner is a psalm setting for double mixed choir, soloists and orchestra.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams (12 October 1872– 26 August 1958) was an English composer.
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Recitative
Recitative (also known by its Italian name recitativo is a style of delivery (much used in operas, oratorios, and cantatas) in which a singer is allowed to adopt the rhythms and delivery of ordinary speech. Recitative does not repeat lines as formally composed songs do. It resembles sung ordinary speech more than a formal musical composition.
Rejoice in the Lamb
Rejoice in the Lamb (Op. 30) is a cantata for four soloists, SATB choir and organ composed by Benjamin Britten in 1943 and uses text from the poem Jubilate Agno by Christopher Smart (1722–1771).
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Rinaldo (cantata)
Rinaldo, Op. Cantata and Rinaldo (cantata) are cantatas.
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Roger Sessions
Roger Huntington Sessions (December 28, 1896March 16, 1985) was an American composer, teacher, and writer on music.
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Roy Harris
Roy Ellsworth Harris (February 12, 1898 – October 1, 1979) was an American composer.
Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was a period of political and social change in Russia, starting in 1917.
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Saint Nicolas (Britten)
Saint Nicolas, Op.
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (15 August 18751 September 1912) was a British composer and conductor.
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Secular Cantata No. 2: A Free Song
Secular Cantata No.
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Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (– 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor who later worked in the Soviet Union.
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Siegfried Strohbach
Siegfried Strohbach (27 November 1929 – 11 July 2019) was a German composer and conductor.
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Sonata
Sonata (Italian:, pl. sonate; from Latin and Italian: sonare, "to sound"), in music, literally means a piece played as opposed to a cantata (Latin and Italian cantare, "to sing"), a piece sung. Cantata and sonata are classical music styles.
Stanley Sadie
Stanley John Sadie (30 October 1930 – 21 March 2005) was an influential and prolific British musicologist, music critic, and editor.
Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)
The Symphony No.
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The Company of Heaven
The Company of Heaven is a composition for soloists, speakers, choir, timpani, organ, and string orchestra by Benjamin Britten.
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The Song of Hiawatha (Coleridge-Taylor)
The Song of Hiawatha (full name: Scenes from The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow), Op.
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Timpani
Timpani or kettledrums (also informally called timps) are musical instruments in the percussion family. Cantata and Timpani are italian words and phrases.
Trilogy
A trilogy is a set of three distinct works that are connected and can be seen either as a single work or as three individual works.
Trumpet
The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.
Viola d'amore
The viola d'amore (Italian for "viol of love") is a 7- or 6-stringed musical instrument with sympathetic strings used chiefly in the baroque period.
Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech (VT), officially the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VPI), is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia.
Vocal music
Vocal music is a type of singing performed by one or more singers, either with instrumental accompaniment, or without instrumental accompaniment (a cappella), in which singing provides the main focus of the piece.
William Schuman
William Howard Schuman (August 4, 1910February 15, 1992) was an American composer and arts administrator.
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See also
Cantatas
- Électre (Gouvy)
- Altbachisches Archiv
- Cantata
- Cantata Cycle 1716–1717 (Telemann)
- Choral works by Max Bruch
- Church cantatas
- Faust et Hélène
- Le Marteau sans maître
- List of cantatas by Christoph Graupner
- Nisi Dominus (Vivaldi)
- Rinaldo (cantata)
- Sacred concerto
- The Rio Grande (Lambert)
- Wer sucht die Pracht, wer wünscht den Glanz, BWV 221
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantata
Also known as Cantatas, Cantates, Kantate, Secular cantata.
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