Modern composers have often produced their most characteristic orchestral effects with fewer contrasting elements than Bach uses in his Trauer-Ode, in the pastoral symphony in his Christmas Oratorio, in the first chorus of the cantata Liebster Gott, wann werd' ich sterben, and in many other cases; but the modern instrumental effects are as far outside Bach's scope as a long passage of preparation on the dominant leading to the return of a first subject is beyond the scope of a gigue in a suite.   anvd [Please select]

I shall be at church this afternoon, and the oratorio this evening.   anvd [Please select]

[167] See:--Giovanni Marangoni: _Istoria dell' oratorio appellato Sancta Sanctorum.'   anvd [Please select]

But it's one of the best-known things in oratorio.   anvd [Please select]

The oratorio, a religious drama set to music but without action, scenery, or costume, had its beginning at this time.   anvd [Please select]

She had made her festival debut at Burstal in "Elijah," and no engagements for oratorio had followed upon it.   anvd [Please select]

"Well--I think it was a mistake for you to begin your public career in oratorio by singing 'Woe unto them."'   anvd [Please select]