cantata

How To Use cantata In A Sentence

• The Beethoven Experience is dedicated to broadcasting the entire works of Ludwig Van Beethoven - from the complete string quartets and symphonies to lesser known works such as the folk songs and the cantatas.
• This is an example of a serenata, or ‘serenade’- in this context, a hybrid between a cantata and an opera.
• The Yellow River Indignation", a soprano solo, is the Sixth Movement of "The Yellow River Cantata".
• At one time, every self-respecting choral society programmed his cantata Hiawatha's Wedding Feast.
• But in a way that's the real miracle of the cantatas: Bach's music is so centred on the words, and yet still manages to transcend and transform all their limitations.
• Italian solo cantatas of the late 17th and early 18th centuries contained arias on the operatic model.
• If you want to sample his singing, try "Ich habe genug" on his Bach cantatas CD, with its quietly anguished oboe obbligato. CBSO, Stephen Hough/Nelsons; Bamberg Symphony Orchestra/Nott – review
• Rob Roy"; a cantata on "Sardanapalus," and music for the ghost scene in A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
• Tippett chose W.H. Auden's autobiography ‘Far away and long ago’ as his prose setting, and he cast the work in the form of a Purcell cantata.
• Bach later incorporated this cantata's beautiful final movement, a concerted setting of the same chorale melody, into his St. John's Passion.