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Definitionn. a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text
Last update: September 24, 2015
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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. [Please select]
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I shall be at church this afternoon, and the oratorio this evening. [Please select]