Search for crossword answers and clues
Sacred musical composition
Answer for the clue "Sacred musical composition ", 8 letters:
oratorio
Alternative clues for the word oratorio
Word definitions for oratorio in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Her repertoire includes lieder and oratorios, though she has been most active as an opera singer. ▪ In the days of Phrynichos' Fall of Miletos, as was observed, tragedy was a kind of oratorio with costume. ▪ It swelled, diminished, ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Oratorio \Or`a*to"ri*o\, n. [It., fr. L. oratorius belonging to praying. See Orator , and cf. Oratory .] (Mus.) A more or less dramatic text or poem, founded on some Scripture nerrative, or great divine event, elaborately set to music, in recitative, arias, ...
Usage examples of oratorio.
Oratorio Buffo in the Handelian manner--that is as nearly so as we could make it.
Madoc surmised that men who sang opera and oratorio as often as Pitney and Kight did were accustomed to hearing loud soprano shrieks and could shut them out at will.
They use the words counterpoint, fugue, symphony, oratorio, polyphony, the mode of Beethoven, the orchestration of Mahler, but their essential point is that, like a musician, the novelist seized time and reconstructed it according to his own laws, which were very close to those of orchestral music.
He sang in all of the oratorios given by the Handel and Haydn society of San Francisco as bass soloist, Creation, St.
Evan reassuring Sally that nobody noticed the soloist going flat during the Handel oratorio.
Working with his usual music-lyrics team of Gossec and Marie-Joseph Chenier, David had conceived of the event as a vast revolutionary oratorio.
While the rebellion was raging we laid aside oratorio work and studied patriotic music suitable to the concerts that we were called upon to give to raise funds for the soldiers.
Matthew Passion, the John Passion, the Christmas Oratorio, the Magnificat, the Motets, and 25 of the Church Cantatas have been printed with English words.
That at least seems to be the inference to be drawn from the remark which he made to the Emperor Francis on being asked which of his two oratorios he himself preferred.
A wave of musical excitement appears to have been passing through London, for on this very evening both Covent Garden and Drury Lane Theatres were packed with audiences drawn together by the oratorio performances there.
London Performances Salomon, strangely enough, had threatened Haydn with penalties for pirating his text, but he thought better of the matter, and now wrote to the composer for a copy of the score, so that he might produce the oratorio in London.
No le discuto que la situación de Requena es envidiable y que el oratorio Hamburgués y el casal de tapires que adquirí a precio irrisorio en esas enchères me han resultado mucho.
That is true, if we are comparing it with the choruses of Handel's oratorios.
It was at my suggestions that the Abbe de Voisenon conceived the idea of composing oratorios in poetry.