Crossword clues for cantata
cantata
- Work associating responsibility with farewell?
- Preserve farewell musical setting
- Tory gets an informal farewell in musical form
- Bach composition
- Bach creation
- Bach's 'Coffee '
- Motet relative
- One of more than 200 Bach works
- Musical narrative
- Form used by Bach
- Form often used by Bach
- Choir production
- Baroque work
- Bach's "Coffee ___"
- Bach's "Christen, ätzet diesen Tag" is one
- Bach's 'Pilgrimage,' e.g
- Bach's Coffee ____
- Bach named one for coffee
- Choral piece
- Choral composition
- Bach's "Pilgrimage," for one
- Bach work
- Arthur Honegger's "A Christmas ___"
- Bach choral work
- A musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text
- Short oratorio
- Sung story
- Composition type
- Baroque piece
- Bach specialty
- Choral work
- Vocal work
- Vocal piece
- Musical setting of a text, with arias, recitatives etc
- Oratorio on a sacred theme
- Work for voice(s) and orchestra
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 for a single noise, consisting of both recitative and melody.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1724, from Italian cantata, literally "that which is sung," past participle of cantare "to sing" (see chant (v.)).
Wiktionary
n. (context music English) A vocal composition accompanied by instruments and generally containing more than one movement, typical of 17th and 18th century Italian music.
WordNet
n. a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text [syn: oratorio]
Wikipedia
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 over time, from the simple single voice madrigal of the early 17th century, to the multi-voice "cantata da camera" and the "cantata da chiesa" of the later part of that century, from the more substantial dramatic forms of the 18th century to the usually sacred-texted 19th-century cantata, which was effectively a type of short oratorio. Cantatas for use in the liturgy of church services are called church cantata or sacred cantata, other cantatas can be indicated as secular cantata. Several cantatas were, and still are, written for special occasions, such as Christmas cantatas. Johann Sebastian Bach composed cycles of church cantatas for the occasions of the liturgical year.
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. The premiere performance on 11 November 1952 was by the Los Angeles (Chamber) Symphony Society (to whom the work is dedicated), conducted by Stravinsky himself. After completing the opera The Rake's Progress, Stravinsky felt the urge to compose another work setting English words, but in a non-dramatic form .
The piece consists of the following movements:
- A lyke-wake dirge. Versus I. Prelude: This ae nighte
- Ricercar I. The maidens came
- A lyke-wake dirge. Versus II. First interlude: If ever thou gav'st hos'n and shoon
- Ricercar II. Sacred History: To-morrow shall be my dancing day
- A lyke-wake dirge. Versus III. Second interlude: From Whinnymuir when thou may'st pass
- Westron Wind
- A lyke-wake dirge. Versus IV. Postlude: If ever thou gav'st meat or drink
The dirge sections concern a soul's approach to and journey through purgatory. Ricercar II sets the carol Tomorrow shall be my dancing day. Westron Wind is a sixteenth-century song.
Cantata is a 1963 Hungarian drama film directed by Miklós Jancsó and starring Zoltán Latinovits, Andor Ajtay and Gyula Bodrogi. A young doctor with peasant roots realises he has become gradually estranged from his own class and background after he returns to visit his hometown. Its Hungarian title is Oldás és kötés ("Loosening and Tightening").
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.