Trionfo di Afrodite ( Italian, literally Triumph of Aphrodite ) is a cantata called " concerto scenico " ( scenic concert ) written in 1951 by the German composer Carl Orff.

The Little Antiformalistic Paradise (, sometimes translated literally as " Antiformalist Rayok "), without opus number, also known as simply Rayok ( see " rayok "), The Peep-show, Little Paradise, The Gods and A Learner's Manual ) is a satirical cantata for four voices, chorus and piano by Dmitri Shostakovich.

In 1851, in anticipation of the Great International Exhibition in London, Balfe composed an innovative cantata, Inno Delle Nazioni, sung by nine female singers, each representing a country.

The opera was also preceded by a festive dance while a cantata was sung in honor of King Ferdinand I ( also composed by Mysliveček ).

Louis Spohr subtitled his violin concerto No. 8 " in moda d ' una scena cantata ," " in the manner of a sung scene "; opera arias exerted a strong influence on the " singable " cantabile melodic line in Romantic writing for stringed instruments.

: Moreover, a sung Mass, when celebrated with the assistance of sacred ministers, is called a solemn or High Mass ( Missa solemnis ); when celebrated without sacred ministers, it is called a Missa cantata.

He was given a commission to write a cantata entitled " The German Resurrection ", which, after 1945, was taken by many as a reason to brand him as having been tainted by Nazi sympathy.

For example, in Il Barbiere there is an aria for the Count ( often omitted ) " Cessa di più resistere ", which Rossini used ( with minor changes ) in the cantata Le Nozze di Teti e di Peleo and in La Cenerentola ( the cabaletta for Angelina's rondo is almost unchanged ).

Kenilworth spawned " numerous stage adaptations and burlesques, at least eleven operas, popular redactions, and even a scene in a set of dioramas for home display ", including Sir Arthur Sullivan's 1865 cantata The Masque at Kenilworth.

French Baroque composer Michel Pignolet de Montéclair composed " Pan et Syrinx ", a cantata for voice & ensemble ( No 4 of Second livre de cantates ).

When the Nazis placed Stravinsky's works on the list of " Entartete Musik ", he lodged a formal appeal to establish his Russian genealogy and declared, " I loathe all communism, Marxism, the execrable Soviet monster, and also all liberalism, democratism, atheism, etc .." Towards the end of his life, at Craft's behest, Stravinsky made a return visit to his native country and composed a cantata in Hebrew, travelling to Israel for its performance.

Ernst Krenek also composed two examples: a " scenic cantata ", Die Zwingburg, op.

The piece of music by Bach that is heard aboard the satellite is " Ach bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ " from the cantata " Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden ", BWV 6 ( also an organ chorale BWV 649 ).

" I was finishing my cantata when the revolution broke out ", he recorded in his Mémoires, " I dashed off the final pages of my orchestral score to the sound of stray bullets coming over the roofs and pattering on the wall outside my window.

In addition to his cantata, The Animals ' Christmas, he has always included religious songs in his albums —" Psalm One-Five-O ", " Jerusalem ", and " I Will Arise " are a few examples — and his lyrics have included biblical verses and allusions.

The music proceeds through various key changes as the prophecies unfold, culminating in the G major chorus " For unto us a child is born ", in which the choral exclamations ( which include an ascending fourth in " the Mighty God ") are imposed on material drawn from Handel's Italian cantata Nò, di voi non vo ' fidarmi.

The story of the last days in the life of Christ is told using a script and music, based loosely on the cantata " Then Came Sunday ", by Rodger Strader.

Dürr describes it as a call to resistance and compares it to the beginning of the recitative " Siehe, ich stehe vor der Tür ", a call to be ready, in the cantata for Advent Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 61, also composed in 1714.

* 1935: " Die Mutter " (" The Mother ", with Brecht ; cantata )

Stainer's output of sacred music was extensive, including the Passion cantata or oratorio The Crucifixion ( 1887 ), the Sevenfold Amen ( this latter piece especially admired by the lexicographer Sir George Grove ), and numerous hymn tunes, including " Cross of Jesus ", " All for Jesus " ( both from The Crucifixion ), and " Love Divine ".

Its first performance at the Opéra-Comique, Paris, 6 December 1846, did not meet with critical acclaim, perhaps due to its halfway status between opera and cantata ; the public was apathetic, and two performances ( and a cancelled third ) rendered a financial setback for Berlioz: " Nothing in my career as an artist wounded me more deeply than this unexpected indifference ", he remembered.

His other works include a cantata, " Merch y Llyn " (" Lady of the Lake "), and a choral work, " He fell among thieves ", with words by Sir Henry Newbolt.

* Vissarion Shebalin: " Moscow ", cantata

In 1997, the boys ' choir celebrated its 70th year with the premiere performance of Joseph Fitzmartin's cantata Ich möcht ' ein Clown sein (" I would like to be a clown ", text by Hanns Dieter Hüsch ).

Naïve / Hell to Go is the re-released version of Naïve, with five of the original songs re-recorded, including " Liebeslied ", which contained an unlicensed sample of " O Fortuna " from Carl Orff's cantata Carmina Burana.

Their first cantata was The Flower Queen ; The Coronation of the Rose, ( 1852 ), often described as " the first secular cantata written by an American ", an opera " in all but name ", described as a " popular operetta ", which " illustrated nineteenth-century American romanticism ".

The original meaning of the term ( derived from the Italian word suonare, to sound on instrument ) referred to a piece for playing, distinguished from cantata, a piece for singing.

In 1880, Sullivan wrote the cantata The Martyr of Antioch, presented at the Leeds Triennial Music Festival, with a libretto modified by Gilbert from an 1822 epic poem by Henry Hart Milman concerning the martyrdom of St. Margaret of Antioch in the 3rd century.

In Search of the Pharaohs is a 30-minute cantata for narrator, junior choir and piano by composer Robert Steadman, commissioned by the City of London Freemen's School, which uses extracts from Carter's diaries as its text.

* Pinotta ( 23 March 1932 Casinò, San Remo ), adapted from the cantata In filanda ( 1881 )

The meaning of the term changed over time, from the simple single voice madrigal of the early 17th century, to the multi-voice " cantata da camera " and the " cantata da chiesa " of the later part of that century, from the more substantial dramatic forms of the 18th century ( including the 200-odd church and secular cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach ) to the usually sacred-texted 19th-century cantata, which was effectively a type of short oratorio.

The Italian solo cantata tended, when on a large scale, to become indistinguishable from a scene in an opera, in the same way the church cantata, solo or choral, is indistinguishable from a small oratorio or portion of an oratorio.

The term cantata came to be applied almost exclusively to choral works, as distinguished from solo vocal music.

1933 ), and in 1939 premiered a cantata drawn from the film music for Alexander Nevsky.

Igor Stravinsky composed a work titled simply Cantata in 1951 – 52, which used stanzas from the 15th-century " Lyke-wake Dirge " as a narrative frame for other anonymous English lyrics, and later designated A Sermon, a Narrative, and a Prayer ( 1961 ) as " a cantata for alto and tenor soli, speaker, chorus, and orchestra ".

Bach's choral output reached its apex in two works: the double chorus Heilig ( Holy, Holy, Holy ) of 1776, a setting of the seraph song from the throne scene in Isaiah, and the grand cantata Die Auferstehung Jesu ( The Resurrection of Jesus ) of 1774-1782, which sets a poetic Gospel harmonization by the poet Karl Wilhelm Ramler ( 1725-1798 ).

They include the operas Owen Wingrave ( 1970 ) and Death in Venice ( 1971 – 1973 ), the Suite on English Folk Tunes " A Time There Was " ( 1974 ) and Third String Quartet ( 1975 )— which drew on material from Death in Venice — as well as the dramatic cantata Phaedra ( 1975 ), written for Janet Baker.

In 1986, Webb produced the cantata The Animals ' Christmas, with Art Garfunkel, Amy Grant, and the London Symphony Orchestra, which tells the Christmas story from the perspective of animals.

" The melody is adapted from Handel's 1722 cantata Se tu non lasci amore, and is in Luckett's view the most successful of the Italian borrowings.

From the beginning of the 17th century until late in the 18th, the cantata for one or two solo voices with accompaniment of basso continuo ( and perhaps a few solo instruments ) was a principal form of Italian vocal chamber music.

* Georg Friedrich Handel's 1707 solo cantata in Italian, Ero e Leandro ( HWV 150 ), is based on the tale.

A few years later the acclaimed French baritone Victor Maurel persuaded him to turn his cantata The Light of Asia, based on the life of Buddha, into an Italian opera, La luce dell ' Asia, which was produced at Covent Garden in 1892.

The French cantata, which should not be confused with the Italian or the German cantata, was " invented " in 1706 by the poet Jean-Baptiste Rousseau and soon taken up by many famous composers of the day, such as Montéclair, Campra, and Clérambault.

In the Baroque era, and generally called a Serenata ( Italian " serenade "-- since this form occurred most frequently in Italy ), a serenade was a type of cantata performed outdoors, in the evening, with mixed vocal and instrumental forces.

Shortly after 1600 the form began to disappear, overtaken by newer forms based on Italian ( especially Venetian ) models: the chorale concerto, and later the chorale cantata.

The Italian cantata in the seventeenth century ; vol. 6.

Italian religious music played an important role in this development, which was documented in an " unparalleled example of ancient Hungarian music ", the Harmonia Caelestis of Prince Pál Eszterházy, who tried to create a distinctively Hungarian style of church music using influences from opera, oratio literature, the German music of Johann Kaspar von Kerll and Johann Schmeltzer, and the oratorio and cantata styles.