Chorale cantata — In music, a chorale cantata is a sacred composition for voices and instruments, principally from the German Baroque era, in which the organizing principle is the words and music to a chorale. Usually a chorale cantata is in multiple movements or… … Wikipedia
Chorale fantasia — is a type of large organ composition based on a chorale melody. The term also applies to large scale vocal Chorale settings in such works as the St Matthew Passion (especially the ending of Part I) and Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn, BWV 23… … Wikipedia
Cantata — Refers to a great body of secular vocal music arising in Italy during the third decade of the 17th century as one of the many responses to the invention of opera. Secular cantatas set lyrical or dramatic texts for one or two voices and… … Historical dictionary of sacred music
cantata — /keuhn tah teuh/, n. 1. a choral composition, either sacred and resembling a short oratorio or secular, as a lyric drama set to music but not to be acted. 2. a metrical narrative set to recitative or alternate recitative and air, usually for a… … Universalium
Chorale setting — A chorale setting is any of a very wide variety of musical compositions, almost entirely of Protestant origin, which use a chorale as their basis. They are vocal, instrumental, or both. Although the bulk of them are German in origin, and… … Wikipedia
Chorale motet — The chorale motet was a type of musical composition in mostly Protestant parts of Europe, principally Germany, and mainly during the 16th century. It involved setting a chorale melody and text as a motet. Stylistically chorale motets were similar … Wikipedia
Chorale concerto — In music, a chorale concerto is a short sacred composition for one or more voices and instruments, principally from the very early German Baroque era. Most examples of the genre were composed between 1600 and 1650. Description This use of the… … Wikipedia
Chorale — Borrowed from the German, where it connotes sacred singing, in English it refers more precisely to Lutheran congregational vernacular hymns and their four voice harmonizations. Martin Luther enthusiastically promoted the chorale as a central… … Historical dictionary of sacred music
Chorale Motet — Vocal polyphonic composition based exclusively on the text and melody of a Lutheran chorale, in one throughcomposed movement or several short ones, dating from the end of the 16th century. Typically, each phrase of the melody serves as a point … Historical dictionary of sacred music
Cantata — A cantata (derived from the Italian word cantare meaning to sing ) is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment and often containing more than one movement. Historical contextThe term did not exist prior to the 16th century, when all … Wikipedia
