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/kənˈtätə/,
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cantatas, plural;
  1. A medium-length narrative or descriptive piece of music with vocal solos and usually a chorus and orchestra

  1. a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text
  2. A cantata (literally 'sung', derived from the Italian word 'cantare') is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements, often involving a choir.
  3. 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. ...
  4. The Cantata by Igor Stravinsky is a work for soprano, tenor, female choir, and instrumental ensemble (of flutes, oboe, cor anglais, and cello), and was composed from 1951 to 1952. ...
  5. (Cantatas (Bach)) This is a list of cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach in order of BWV number as given in Wolfgang Schmieder's catalogue of Bach's works. ...
  6. A vocal composition accompanied by instruments and generally containing more than one movement, typical of 17th and 18th century Italian music
  7. Baroque sacred or secular choral composition containing solos, duets, and choruses, with orchestral or keyboard accompaniment.
  8. A sacred choral piece popular during the Baroque period: the most famous are those written by Johann Sebastian Bach.
  9. The term cantata means "to be sung" (as opposed to sonata, an instrumental work which means "to be played"). A cantata is a vocal work with instrumental accompaniment. It may be sacred or secular, and often contains sections such as solos, choruses, and recitatives.
  10. Term applied to a 17th and 18th century multi-movement non-theatrical and non-liturgical vocal genre; subsequently used to describe large-scale vocal works in the same spirit, generally for soloists, chorus and orchestra.
  11. in honour of the Marquess de Lorne and Princess Louise (N. Legendre). 1879. Ms lost
  12. Choral or solo vocal form developed in the Baroque period based on secular or religious text, generally with several movements and instrumental ensemble accompaniment.
  13. A piece of vocal chamber music consisting of several recitatives and arias, sometimes an opening and closing chorus or chorale. Bach composed more than 300 cantatas, of which around 200 survive today. Most were sacred cantatas created for use in Lutheran service. ...
  14. A composition in several movements for solo voice(s), instruments, and perhaps also chorus. Depending on text, cantatas are categorized as either secular or church cantatas.
  15. A composite secular vocal genre of the Baroque period. It is on a smaller scale than opera and not staged. The reform cantatas (after Neumeister's texts) consist of several movements such as arias, recitatives, duets and choruses based on a narrative text. ...
  16. A large-scale composition generally for chorus, solo voices and either orchestra and organ, consisting of a mixture of choruses, arias and recitatives, as well as the occasional instrumental interlude. ...
  17. "Sung". A multi-movement baroque sacred or secular choral composition for concert or church performance by a choir, sometimes soloists, and an instrumental ensemble.
  18. Vocal genre for solo singers, chorus and instrumentalists based on a lyric or dramatic poetic narrative. It generally consists of several movements including recitatives, arias and ensemble numbers.
  19. a musical form, generally for chorus and soloists, based on a primarily narrative text; the most famous cantatas are those written by Bach, all of which take scriptural texts as their starting points--some are even for solo voice and instrument.
  20. a choral work with or without solo voices, similar to a short oratorio
  21. A short lyric form dealing with either secular or sacred subjects
  22. chorus, orchestra, 1982
  23. a composition consisting of several movements usually, but not always, based on a chorale.