Definition of cantatas. Meaning of cantatas. Synonyms of cantatas

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Definition of cantatas

Cantata
Cantata Can*ta"ta, n. [It., fr. cantare to sing, fr. L. cantare intens of canere to sing.] (Mus.) A poem set to music; a musical composition comprising choruses, solos, interludes, etc., arranged in a somewhat dramatic manner; originally, a composition for a single noise, consisting of both recitative and melody.

Meaning of cantatas from wikipedia

- are called church cantata or sacred cantata; other cantatas can be indicated as secular cantatas. Several cantatas were, and still are, written for special...
- The cantatas composed by Johann Sebastian Bach, known as Bach cantatas (German: Bachkantaten), are a body of work consisting of over 200 surviving independent...
- Christmas cantatas today are those of Johann Sebastian Bach, who composed several cantatas for the three days of Christmas in his three annual cantata cycles...
- This is a sortable list of Bach cantatas, the cantatas composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. His almost 200 extant cantatas are among his important vocal compositions...
- religious subset of the cantata genre Category:Cantatas This disambiguation page lists articles ****ociated with the title Cantata. If an internal link led...
- BWV Anh. 190–197 – Cantatas added to Anh. I (music lost); see also List of Bach cantatas BWV Anh. 198 – Abandoned sketch of a cantata opening, renumbered...
- gesungen" Cantata text According to his obituary, Bach would have composed five year-cycles of sacred cantatas, and additional church cantatas for weddings...
- of extant cantatas were composed for occasions occurring in the liturgical calendar of the German Reformation era, including P****ion cantatas for Good...
- occasions for which he provided a cantata. Graupner's church cantatas don't include the sixth Sunday after Epiphany, nor cantatas for St. John's Day or Michaelmas...
- Bach composed this cantata to complete his second annual cycle of cantatas of 1724/25, a cycle planned to be of chorale cantatas. It is based on Philipp...