How To Use Cantata In A Sentence
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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.
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This is an example of a serenata, or ‘serenade’- in this context, a hybrid between a cantata and an opera.
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The Yellow River Indignation", a soprano solo, is the Sixth Movement of "The Yellow River Cantata".
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At one time, every self-respecting choral society programmed his cantata Hiawatha's Wedding Feast.
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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.
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Italian solo cantatas of the late 17th and early 18th centuries contained arias on the operatic model.
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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
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Rob Roy"; a cantata on "Sardanapalus," and music for the ghost scene in
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
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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.
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Bach later incorporated this cantata's beautiful final movement, a concerted setting of the same chorale melody, into his St. John's Passion.
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This musical tradition was developed in the seventeenth century with the emergence of opera, oratorio, and cantata and their attendant forms of aria, recitative, and chorale.
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The cantata has a difficult vocal score.
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Baker responds with two stunning performances, even though I have to overcome my resentment that she's snatched a solo cantata usually taken by baritones and basses.
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These accounts of Bach's two cantatas for solo contralto will probably upset the period-instrument purists - Craig Smith's conducting of a modern chamber orchestra owes little to recent notions of baroque practice.
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M.ntmartre -- rooms high up on the fifth floor -- where, between two pictures, supposed to be by Angelica Kaufmann, M. Duval had written unactable plays for the last twenty years, and where he would continue to write unactable plays until God called him to a world, perhaps, of eternal cantatas, but where, by all accounts, _l'exposition de la pièce selon la formule de M. Scribe_ is still unknown.
Confessions of a Young Man
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Its repertoire is rich and varied, including a number of difficult and rarely performed musical pieces, opera and ballet music, as well as cantatas and oratorios.
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But in their own ways all are equally impressive, and anyone wanting to build a cantata collection can confidently mix and match as it suits them.
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The LaRouchies, a weird amalgam of far-right conspiracy theorists, have taken to singing black spirituals and Bach cantatas all over town.
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His choral works, canons, and cantatas, some based on poems by Hildegard Jone, contain joyous words that initially clash with the fragmented tone cells, then merge with them.
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The music of the song has been rearranged for the cantata.
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Also enthralling was the remarkable Italian cantata from 1708, Tra le fiamme, in which three arias interspersed by recitatives lead to a final reprise of the first, resulting in a rather progressive cyclic structure.
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I went to the second concert, a long cantata and a short.
Times, Sunday Times
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This collection covers eight sacred solo/duet cantatas for soprano and/or bass with a quartet of period strings - two each of violins and viols de gamba with continuo.
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There's this chaconne-like cantata BuxWV 92 "Quemadmodum desiderat cervus" -- the Psalm "As the hart desireth the waterbrook" auf Lateinsich -- that has a two-bar basso ostinato that's repeated 64 times.
Fame, it's not your brain, it's just the flame that burns your change
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He also performed numerous songs, oratorios and cantatas.
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It opens with a sinfonia to one of Alessandro's many secular cantatas or ‘serenatas.’
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When I was growing up, I associated religious music with school hymns, the most untuneful, dreary things, but many Bach cantatas are incredibly jolly and full of playful flourishes.
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This collection covers eight sacred solo/duet cantatas for soprano and/or bass with a quartet of period strings - two each of violins and viols de gamba with continuo.
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Then the choir and instrumentalists performed the cantata.
Christianity Today
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Musical variety seems to have been Campra's principal aim in nearly half of his later cantatas.
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The first two cantatas consist of two arias, each preceded by a recitative.
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Immediately after Bonhoeffer was jailed, his family sent him a music score of Bach cantatas.
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There's much sense in gathering Bach's solo bass cantatas for a single CD.
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In both the concertos and cantatas, the continuo consists of harpsichord, cello, and theorbo.
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He made a little money by writing the words for a cantata, "Euterpe", sung at the opening of the
The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens
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Musical variety seems to have been Campra's principal aim in nearly half of his later cantatas.
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The portrayal of the situations is assisted by cantatas, arias, duets, operas and music.
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Bach later incorporated this cantata's beautiful final movement, a concerted setting of the same chorale melody, into his St. John's Passion.
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The music for the cantata Alexander Nevsky was taken from Sergei Prokofiev's score for a movie of the same name which won him popular acclaim but displeased the Soviet government.
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Zimmermann even invented a new name for the genre, which he called a lingual, a piece that blends elements of the cantata, oratorio, radio play, journalism, and feature film.
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Troubled by his own nascent Catholicism as well as the state of war-torn Europe, Francis Poulenc wrote his choral masterpiece, Figure humaine, in 1943, calling the cantata both a "sacred duty" and a patriotic gesture to France.
Francis Poulenc: Figure Humaine/Choral Works
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His poetry has been set to music in a cantata by James DeMars called ‘Toto's Say,’ and was also featured in the documentary Birthwrite: Growing Up Hispanic.
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Te Deums; six psalms; twenty anthems; three German operas; one English opera; thirty-nine Italian operas; two Italian serenatas, two English serenatas; one Italian intermezzo, "Terpsichore"; four odes; twenty-four chamber duets; ninety-four cantatas; seven French songs; thirty-three concertos; nineteen English songs; sixteen Italian airs; twenty-four sonatas.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
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In 1961, Harris wrote a large cantata on St. Francis's Canticle of the Sun for solo voice and chamber ensemble.
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It was not unusual for a Baroque composer - such as his father - to adapt a sinfonia from a cantata into a concerto movement, or to take a secular aria and insert it, with a new text, into a sacred work.
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Li's attitude is the first time outside official "rate hike Cantata" response.
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However, in two cantatas in book 3 allusive figuration recurs in a manner that indubitably aids the drama.
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In both the concertos and cantatas, the continuo consists of harpsichord, cello, and theorbo.
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It was to Bach's advantage that this chorale was harmonised at the end of Cantata 60 (a dialogue between Hope and Fear commented on by Christ) with a daring remarkable even for Bach.
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So that he's working on the second gathering, the second four pages, the second leaf, while they are already preparing the parts for the incomplete cantata.
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It carries a fair part of my CD collection so I can listen to Bach cantatas and Beethoven string quartets as well as BBC News, downloaded from the internet, at the gym, while walking, and on long plane flights.
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He also performed numerous songs, oratorios and cantatas.
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His works include a cyclic setting of Shevchenko's poetry; operas, including Taras Bulba; art songs and choral works; cantatas; piano pieces; and chamber music.
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The jury of Germany's phonographic award, the Deutscher Schallplattenpreis, recently honoured Suzuki's team for the 27th sequel of its recordings all of Bach's cantatas.
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Other dramatic, but generally unstaged genres were the cantata and serenata, and the sacred equivalent of opera, oratorio, given in Lent when theatres were closed.
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Concerto movements also ended up in cantatas, often with florid parts being added to an already busy original.
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I think it needs more in the way of paraphrase and/or annotation, which I hope Oxford University Press's forthcoming version of Durr's book on the cantatas will provide.
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Take for instance, his cantata: the use of pizzicato, or plucking strings, to express the clashing of swords.
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Every note he wrote will be played, from the familiar string quartets, piano concertos, violin sonatas and symphonies to more obscure compositions, such as his 100 folk songs and cantatas.
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And would the listener recognise the deeper significance, in Cantata 105, of the worship of money as a betrayal of Christ without that motivic relationship?
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Upshaw sings the first five Purcell songs with cello and keyboard continuo, turns her attention to the Bach cantata (with the addition four strings and an oboe), and then returns to Purcell for the last three songs.
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Yellow River Cantata" written in the Sino-Japanese War in 1938 autumn and winter, the writer with the anti-Japanese forces marched to the northwest shore of the Yellow River.
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It must be admitted, however, that one of the most memorable parts of the cantata is the Scherzo interlude, ‘The Flight into Egypt’, for piano alone.
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For the meditative arias and extended choruses, Bach apparently planned to adapt pre-existing music from his cantatas, a parody procedure he often used and one that Koopman, too, has adopted to make his realization.
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There were many voices, screaming differently, loudly raised in a badly orchestrated cantata.
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His output as a composer seems to have been considerable – there are cantatas, oratorios, intermezzi, operas and instrumental pieces, as well as a wealth of music for the liturgy, from which Rinaldo Alessandrini has extracted this cross-section.
Melani: Motets
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Musical variety seems to have been Campra's principal aim in nearly half of his later cantatas.
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It must be admitted, however, that one of the most memorable parts of the cantata is the Scherzo interlude, ‘The Flight into Egypt’, for piano alone.
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It was not unusual for a Baroque composer - such as his father - to adapt a sinfonia from a cantata into a concerto movement, or to take a secular aria and insert it, with a new text, into a sacred work.
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The violoncello piccolo is used in Cantata BWV 6, but not in the sixth Cello Suite #6, for which the piece was scored.
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Once upon a time my Sunday school teacher dragooned me into a little kiddie choir that performed ‘Away in A Manger’ during the Christmas cantata.
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He also composed masses, motets, cantatas, duets, and songs.
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“Parte 2, in cui la ragazza elefante fu incantata, ed altri celebri avvenimenti.”
No Fat Clips!!! : DAVID LOBSER – Elephant Girl
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The cantata has a difficult vocal score.
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His works include much orchestral music, cantatas, and chamber compositions.
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His works include a cyclic setting of Shevchenko's poetry; operas, including Taras Bulba; art songs and choral works; cantatas; piano pieces; and chamber music.
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I like the idea of alternating vocal cantatas with instrumental concertos; the variety ensures that the music always sounds fresh.
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In both the concertos and cantatas, the continuo consists of harpsichord, cello, and theorbo.
