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Baroque sacred music - oratorio. Baroque era is known for its several grand forms of church music, including the passion, the oratorio, or the cantata. They were all based on texts refering to the sacred religious book (Bible), although the setting was different between these three music forms. The passion was based on Jesus' suffering and was based on the Gospel texts, the Oratorio was more poetic and could be about any other Biblical story, while cantatas were based on Biblical texts. It is quite remarkable that in the midst of separation between the sacred and the secular, composers wrote for both of the worlds. They didn't necessarily fought on either side of the schism.

And that's understandable since they wanted to get famous, or saw it as a way to get jobs or get paid by different employers (even the Protestant J.S. Bach wrote a Catholic Mass!). A standard device that was used to accompany the singers in the church music, but that was borrowed from the opera, was basso continuo. Oratorio. History[edit] 1600, origins of the oratorio[edit] Although medieval plays such as the Ludus Danielis, and Renaissance dialogue motets such as those of the Oltremontani had characteristics of an oratorio, the first oratorio is usually seen as Emilio de Cavalieri's Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo.

Monteverdi composed Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda which can be considered as the first secular oratorio. 1650–1700[edit] By the mid-17th century, two types had developed: Lasting about 30–60 minutes, oratorio volgares were performed in two sections, separated by a sermon; their music resembles that of contemporary operas and chamber cantatas. oratorio latino (in Latin) – first developed at the Oratorio del Santissimo Crocifisso, related to the church of San Marcello al Corso in Rome. The late baroque oratorio[edit] In the late baroque oratorios increasingly became "sacred opera". The oratorio in Georgian Britain[edit] The Victorian oratorio[edit] 20th-century oratorios[edit]

Handel - Overture to the oratorio Solomon. J.S. Bach - Christmas Oratorio BWV 248 - Part I 'For the First Day of Christmas' - Mvt. I. Westchester Oratorio Society. Upload westchesteroratorio.org Subscription preferences Loading... Working... westchesteroratorio Uploads Play Related channels on YouTube ArRubMusic 1000Magicians counterpoint85 tomtscotland Violin Channel leonidas3549 Sign in to add this to Watch Later Add to.