cantata
4
8.2
- noun
- /kənˈtɑːtə/
- Specialized
:
cantata
- In 1790, Mozart wrote the now-famous cantata, "Your's, the Immeasurable Universe, K. 619," for the proposed Hamburg project.
- piano cantata
Examples
-
Shchedrin wrote his nine-movement cantata in 1988 to mark the millennium of Russia's conversion to Christianity.
Blog text (8) -
As for those 200 Bach sacred cantatas, truth be told, how frequently are most of them performed nowadays?
Blog text (9) -
Incredible to be able to do a new Mass or a new cantata in a matter of days.
-
We will spend about a half hour practicing this cantata each week.
Blog text (5) -
Most most recently, he worked on the Hubble cantata that had its world premiere in May.
-
I feel this particularly strongly as regards the the church cantatas that he wrote.
-
Yeadam das Zainer is also the title of a Bach cantata, a cantata first performed in Weimar, just a few miles away.
-
Gabriel Preisser returns to his native Florida to perform Bach's Coffee Cantata with the Orlando Philharmonic Symphony on December 10th.
Blog text (17) -
Bach himself was a devout Lutheran; he composed his cantatas, his Passions, and the rest as a joyful gift to God.
Academic text (1994) -
The choir will present a cantata during the 11 a.m. worship service on Dec. 22.
Synonyms
3
8.8
A large musical work for orchestra, choir, and solo singers, often about religious stories, performed without costumes or scenery
How Long
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cantata comes from the Italian verb cantare, which means 'to sing', and you can see the same root in the English word chant. So the name reminds us that a cantata is a 'sung' piece of music meant for voices and instruments, not acted on stage.