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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 . The meaning of the term changed ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A cantata in nine movements by Josef Rheinberger will also be performed. ▪ Direct speech has that personal quality Jean-Jacques Rousseau later recognized as being intrinsic to the best cantatas. ▪ However, in two cantatas in ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cantata \Can*ta"ta\, n. [It., fr. cantare to sing, fr. L. cantare intens of canere to sing.] (Mus.) A poem set to music; a musical composition comprising choruses, solos, interludes, etc., arranged in a somewhat dramatic manner; originally, a composition ...
WordNet
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n. a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text [syn: oratorio ]
Usage examples of cantata.
How often the subject has served for operettas, cantatas, overtures, symphonies, etc.
He wrote sacred and panegyrical odes, Anacreontic and Horatian lyrics, dithyrambs and cantatas, and even, in his later years, ballads.
And they listened to the Cantata for Bongo in A Minor with all eighty-eight tones clear and deep from the clava drum that only Deutcher 4 could play.
Cantata for Bongo in A Minor with all eighty-eight tones clear and deep from the clava drum that only Deutcher 4 could play.
I had even run into a harpsichordist who was relentlessly assembling ensembles so she could eventually say she had played the harpsichord part in every one of the 1500 cantatas Allesandro Scarlatti composed.
Matthew Passion, the John Passion, the Christmas Oratorio, the Magnificat, the Motets, and 25 of the Church Cantatas have been printed with English words.
Mary, whose nave once every month resounded full and round with Bach cantatas and Mozart Masses.
In his cantatas he shows himself at once captivating and caressing, and in his minuets he is delightful and full of humour.
Something bright and singing danced in her veins, cantatas of molten carnelians, garnets like stars, the ecstatic smell of burning rubies .
Symphonies, divertimenti for concerted instruments, string quartets, a clavier trio, airs, a cantata, and other works were all produced at these concerts, and with almost invariable applause.
He himself had used it again twelve years later, rearranged for organ in his 29th Cantata, and finally in his great B Minor Mass.
Finally the cantata rises to a mighty close with a hymn to the Greater Germany.
Sally took those women through four bars of some cantata over and over again.
The grand opera becomes a cantata where we have the orchestra and the voices.
During one communication period they sang an improvised cantata in the human fashion for her.