1) Bach genre 2) Bach piece 3) Bach wrote one for christmas 4) Cantata 5) Choir piece 6) Choral composition 7) Choral piece 8) Choral work 9) Church piece 10) Classical music 11) Dramatic musical composition 12) Elijah is one 13) Extended musical work 14) Form handled well by Handel 15) Form similar to opera
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1) Cantata 2) Music
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An oratorio is a large musical composition for orchestra, choir, and soloists. Like an opera, an oratorio includes the use of a choir, soloists, an ensemble, various distinguishable characters, and arias. However, opera is musical theatre, while oratorio is strictly a concert piece—though oratorios are sometimes staged as operas, and operas are ...
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[horse] Oratorio (foaled 29 April 2002) is an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. As a two-year-old in 2004 he won four of his seven races including the Anglesey Stakes, Futurity Stakes and Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere as well as finishing second in the Phoenix Stakes and the Dewhurst Stakes. He showed his best form when tried over a mile and...
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• (n.) A more or less dramatic text or poem, founded on some Scripture nerrative, or great divine event, elaborately set to music, in recitative, arias, grand choruses, etc., to be sung with an orchestral accompaniment, but without action, scenery, or costume, although the oratorio grew out of the Mysteries and the Miracle and Passion plays, w...
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a large-scale musical composition on a sacred or semisacred subject, for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra. An oratorio`s text is usually based on ... [10 related articles]
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Or`a·to'ri·o noun [ Italian , from Latin
oratorius belonging to praying. See
Orator , and confer
Oratory .]
1. (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, gr...
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An oratorio is a sacred musical composition of an extended nature, the words generally taken from Scripture. The term 'oratorio' comes from the Oratory in which Saint Philip Neri assembled his
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An oratorio is a large musical work, generally based on a sacred text or religious topic, with soloists, chorus and orchestra. Although many musical elements of an oratorio are similar to opera, no costumes, sets or acting are used, and oratorios are usually performed as a concert.
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religious opera without stage action or costumes.
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A dramatic work for orchestra, chorus and soloists that unlike opera was principally written to be performed in concert. The genre is predominantly made up of works with serious religious themes.
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Dramatic, musical setting of religious texts, scored for orchestra, chorus, and solo voices. Originally it was acted out with scenery and costumes, but gradually it became more commonly performed as a concert. Its origins lie in the
Laude spirituali performed by St Philip Neri's Oratory in Rome in the 16th century, followed b...
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A musical composition for chorus, orchestra and soloists whose text is usually religious, serious or philosophical. Generally not staged, oratorio was Handel
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An extended cantata on a sacred subject.
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originally setting of an extended religious narrative (and since ca. 1800, non-religious ones as well) for vocal soloists, chorus, and orchestra, intended for concert or church performance without costumes or stage settings.
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a nonliturgical, nontheatrical sacred work for soloists, chores and orchestra, something like an opera but performed without action, costumes or scenery.
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A musical composition for chorus, orchestra and soloists whose text is usually religious, serious or philosophical. Generally not staged, oratorio was Handel’s domain in England when opera fell out of favour. Examples of oratorios are Haydn’s The Creation and Handel’s Messiah.
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an extended musical composition with a text more or less dramatic in character and usually based upon a religious theme, for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra, and performed without action, costume, or scenery.
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mostly this is a composition with a long libretto, of religious or contemplative character performed without sets, costume or action by solo voices, chorus and orchestra
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a musical composition for voices and orchestra
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[Intelligent words] a musical composition for voices and orchestra
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[Difficult words] a musical composition for voices and orchestra
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[Obscure words] a musical composition for voices and orchestra
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a musical composition for voices and orchestra
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