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A cantata (/ k æ n ˈ t ɑː t ə /; Italian: [kanˈtaːta]; literally "sung", past participle feminine singular of the Italian verb cantare, "to sing") is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements, often involving a choir.
Italian term Literal translation Definition A cappella: in chapel style: Sung with no (instrumental) accompaniment, has much harmonizing Aria: air: Piece of music, usually for a singer Aria di sorbetto: sorbet air: A short solo performed by a secondary character in the opera Arietta: little air: A short or light aria Arioso: airy A type of solo ...
Non sa che sia dolore (He knows not what sorrow is), BWV 209, [a] is a secular cantata composed by Johann Sebastian Bach and possibly first performed in Leipzig in 1747. [1] With Amore Traditore , it is one of the composer's only two settings of a text in Italian.
Bach wrote the chorale cantata in his second year in Leipzig to conclude a set of Christmas cantatas on the Feast of Epiphany. [2] [3] The prescribed readings for the feast day were taken from the Book of Isaiah, the heathen will convert (Isaiah 60:1–6), and from the Gospel of Matthew, the Wise Men From the East bringing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh to the newborn Jesus (Matthew 2:1 ...
The great achievements generally ascribed to Carissimi are the further development of the recitative, introduced by Monteverdi, which is highly important to the history of dramatic music; the further development of the chamber cantata, by which Carissimi superseded the concertato madrigals which had themselves replaced the madrigals of the late Renaissance; and the development of the oratorio ...
Davide penitente, K. 469 (also Davidde penitente), is a cantata by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, to texts by Saverio Mattei [].The cantata was commissioned by the Wiener Tonkünstler-Societät, and first performed on 13 March 1785 in the Vienna Burgtheater.
A chorale cantata is a church cantata based on a chorale—in this context a Lutheran chorale. It is principally from the German Baroque era. The organizing principle is the words and music of a Lutheran hymn. Usually a chorale cantata includes multiple movements or parts. Most chorale cantatas were written between approximately 1650 and 1750.
The cantata is based upon Jakob Ebert's hymn " Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ". It matches the Sunday's prescribed gospel reading, the Tribulation from the Gospel of Matthew , in a general way. The hymn's first and last stanzas are retained unchanged in both text and tune: the former is set as a chorale fantasia , the latter as a four-part ...