oratorio in English

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a large-scale musical work for orchestra and voices, typically a narrative on a religious theme, performed without the use of costumes, scenery, or action. Well-known examples include Bach's Christmas Oratorio , Handel's Messiah , and Haydn's The Creation.
Born in Edinburgh, he was a violinist, conductor and teacher whose compositions included operas, oratorios , songs, concertos, chamber and orchestral works.
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1. It's the world's most popular oratorio.

2. Its peaks are the symphony and the oratorio.

3. In 1988 Scholl performed Bach's Christmas Oratorio in Rüdesheim.

4. The orchestra and chorus performed an Easter oratorio.

5. The Messiah Oratorio was composed by George Frideric Handel in 17

6. It swelled, diminished, and swelled again like an oratorio.

7. This Christmas morning, radios around the world will play the Christmas Oratorio.

8. A declamatory style used in opera and oratorio, similar to recitative but having greater melodic variation.

9. The oratorio depicts and celebrates the Creation of the world as described in the Book of Genesis.

10. 4 A declamatory style used in opera and oratorio, similar to recitative but having greater melodic variation.

11. Bach's masterpiece Passion oratorio consists of four parts: introductory choral preludes, recitative, chorales [sentencedict .com], and solo arias.

12. In the days of Phrynichos' Fall of Miletos, as was observed, tragedy was a kind of oratorio with costume.

13. Bach's masterpiece Passion oratorio consists of four parts: introductory choral preludes, recitative, chorales , and solo arias.

14. The Creation (German: Die Schöpfung) is an oratorio written between 1797 and 1798 by Joseph Haydn (Hob

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16. And built his set of chimes, The Cambridge Quarters, around it. The musical phrase is easily recognisable to anyone who knows handel's famous oratorio.

17. In the final phase of her career, she abandoned the stage for oratorio and concert singing, in which she achieved great success.

18. She made her professional debut in the United Kingdom in 1954 at the Canterbury Festival where she sang the soprano part in Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah.

19. Among other classical pieces inspired by Christmas are the Nutcracker Suite, adapted from Tchaikovsky 's ballet score, and Johann Sebastian Bach's Christmas Oratorio (BWV 2.

20. In addition, the alto parts in his oratorio, English musical drama and masque choruses were of course sung by Countertenors - and consequently lie somewhat low …

21. In 2007 and 200 the Chorus was invited by the Hong Kong Oratorio Society to perform Verdi's "Requiem", Rossini's "Stabat Mater" and Brucker's "Te Deum".

22. The year 1600 was one of the most important landmarks in musical history, witnessing the rise of recitative, cantata, opera and its religious equivalence, oratorio .

23. The versatility of “gorgeous voiced” American baritone and Fulbright scholar, Simon Barrad, has been heard across the United States and Europe in opera, Lieder, and oratorio concerts.

24. There are many artistic and musical references to Belshazzar including an oratorio by Georg Friedrich Händel, poems by Lord Byron, Robert Frost, and …

25. Alexander Balus (HWV 65) is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel, named after its title character, the Seleucid king Alexander Balas.The work has three acts and was written in English

26. While Countertenors have been used for alto parts in all-male church choirs since at least the seventeenth century, the solo countertenor is a relatively new arrival in modern performances of opera and oratorio

27. Although the huge-scale oratorio tradition was perpetuated by such large ensembles as the Royal Choral Society, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Huddersfield Choral Society in the 20th century, there were increasing calls for performances more faithful to Handel's conception.

28. Messiah (HWV 56) is an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel, with a scriptural text compiled by Charles Jennens from the King James Bible, and from the Coverdale Psalter, the version of the Psalms included with the Book of Common Prayer.

29. Walton s searing oratorio, Belshazzar s Feast, written for baritone, chorus and a huge orchestra with an augmented brass section, takes as its subject the scene from the Bible (Book of Daniel) in which, at King Belshazzar s Feast, a hand appears and prophetically writes a doom laden message on the wall.