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cantataIn music, a work in three or more movements, using one or more vocal soloists, and sometimes a chorus. It is usually accompanied by an ensemble or small orchestra, and can be sacred or secular. The word comes from the Italian, meaning ‘sung’, as opposed to sonata (‘sounded’, ‘played’) for instruments. The first printed collection of sacred cantata texts dates from 1670. The most well-known composer of sacred cantatas was Johann Sebastian Bach, with Alessandro Scarlatti being a major master of the secular form. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Note that this Rossi is not Luigi Rossi, the 17th-century Roman organist and composer of two operas, numerous songs and more than 300 cantatas. Bach looms large over the weekend, with venerable German conductor Helmuth Rilling leading the Los Angeles Master Chorale in a program of Bach cantatas at Disney Hall on Saturday night and at Royce Hall on Sunday night. 46 operas, 32 oratorios, plus cantatas, sacred music, concerti grossi, and miscellaneous orchestral, instrumental, and vocal music. |
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