It contrasts with cantata, which is accompanied singing.

Catulli Carmina is a cantata by Carl Orff to the texts of Catullus.

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 ).

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.

There is also a cantata that is classified, in its entirety, as a motet.

The motet Sei Lob und Preis mit Ehren ( BWV 231 ) is spurious ; it is part of a cantata by Telemann.

One such was the daughter of a friend, called Louise ; in his grief he is believed to have written the cantata " Entsagen " ( Renunciation ).

The style is most often used in preludes to suites, and can be found in non-staged vocal works such as cantatas, for example in the opening chorus of Bach's cantata Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 61.

A cantata ( literally " sung ", derived from the Italian word " cantare ") is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements, often involving a choir.

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.

It is preceded by three symphonic movements, a device avowedly suggested by Beethoven's ninth symphony ; but the analogy is not accurate, as Beethoven's work is a symphony of which the fourth movement is a choral finale of essentially single design, whereas Mendelssohn's Symphony Cantata is a cantata with three symphonic preludes.

Momente ( 1962 – 64 / 1969 ), one of the most important works of Karlheinz Stockhausen, is often described as a cantata.

There is a cantata by the French Baroque composer André Campra telling the story of Arion

A libretto is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata, or musical.

The term libretto is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works, such as Mass, requiem, and sacred cantata, or the story line of a ballet.

* Caractacus is the title of a cantata by Edward Elgar in 1897-8 devoted to the defeat and capture of the king by the Romans.

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 ).

The cantata is scored for a small orchestra of oboe d ' amore, violins, viola, organ solo and basso continuo.

The cantata is scored as chamber music for alto, two oboes, two violins, two violas, and basso continuo.

The cantata is intimately scored for soprano, alto, tenor and bass soloists, choir and a small orchestra of two violins, bassoon obbligato, and basso continuo.

The cantata is scored for soprano, oboe, two violins, viola, and basso continuo.

His best-known pieces include the Pulitzer-winning, Shakespeare-inspired Tempest Fantasy, a 30-minute chamber work scored for clarinet, violin, violoncello, and piano, which was premiered on May 2, 2003 at the Morgan Library in New York City by David Krakauer and Trio Solisti, for whom it was written ; Northern Lights Electric, a 1994 work that combines a musical illustration of the Northern Lights with a musical depiction of electric light ; and the 1998 cantata Fire / Ice / Air, which contrasts the journeys of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, on his expedition to the Antarctic, and Charles Lindbergh, on his trans-Atlantic flight.

The cantata is festively scored for soprano, tenor, and bass soloists, a four-part choir, two horns, two oboe da caccia, two violins obbligato, viola and basso continuo.

The cantata is scored for three soloists, alto, tenor, and bass, a four-part choir, corno da tirarsi, a slide horn that Bach scored for a short period, flauto traverso, two oboes d ' amore, two violins, viola and basso continuo.

The cantata is scored for horn, 2 oboes, taille ( an instrument similar to the oboe da caccia, today often replaced by an English horn ), violino piccolo, violin, viola, basso continuo, and choir with soprano, tenor, and bass soloists.

The cantata is scored for soprano, alto, tenor, and bass, two violins, two violas and basso continuo.

The cantata is scored for four soloists, soprano, alto, tenor, and bass, a four part choir, tromba da tirarsi ( slide trumpet ), two oboes, two violins, viola and basso continuo.

The cantata is scored for a chamber music ensemble of four soloists, soprano, alto, tenor, and bass, a four-part choir, flauto traverso, oboe d ' amore, two violins, viola and basso continuo.

The cantata is scored for four soloists, soprano, alto, tenor and bass, a four-part choir, trumpet, two oboes, two violins, viola, and basso continuo.

The cantata is scored for solo soprano, trumpet, two violins, viola and continuo.

It is the only church cantata by Bach scored for solo soprano and trumpet.

The cantata is scored for three soloists, alto, tenor and bass, a four-part choir, trumpet, oboe, bassoon, two violins, two violas and basso continuo.

Salieri and Mozart even composed a cantata for voice and piano together, called Per la ricuperata salute di Ophelia, which celebrated the return to stage of the singer Nancy Storace.

But two years before this he had already received the prize at the Conservatorio of Bologna for his cantata Il pianto d ' Armonia sulla morte d ’ Orfeo.

His early major works for the voice included The Masque at Kenilworth ( 1864 ); an oratorio, The Prodigal Son ( 1869 ); and a dramatic cantata, On Shore and Sea ( 1871 ).

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.

Some of his notable compositions include the series of nineteen Klavierstücke ( Piano Pieces ), Kontra-Punkte for ten instruments, the electronic / musique-concrète Gesang der Jünglinge, Gruppen for three orchestras, the percussion solo Zyklus, Kontakte, the cantata Momente, the live-electronic Mikrophonie I, Hymnen, Stimmung for six vocalists, Aus den sieben Tagen, Mantra for two pianos and electronics, Tierkreis, Inori for soloists and orchestra, and the gigantic opera cycle Licht.

This work began in 1936 as a cantata for alto solo and orchestra, loosely based on a few select poems by Walt Whitman.

Although the film had a very poor sound recording, Prokofiev adapted much of his score into a large-scale cantata for mezzo-soprano, orchestra and chorus, which was extensively performed and recorded.

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

The story of Virginia's inquiry and the The Suns response was adapted in 1932 into an NBC produced cantata ( the only known editorial set to classical music ) and an Emmy Award-winning animated television special in 1974, animated by Bill Meléndez ( best known for his work on the various Peanuts specials ) and featuring the voices of Jim Backus, Susan Silo and Courtney Lemmon, with theme song performed by Jimmy Osmond.

* March 24 Premiere performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's Funeral cantata Klagt, Kinder, klagt es aller Welt, BWV 244a before midday at the St. James Church, Köthen ( for the same event as above ).

The cantata In Filanda became Pinotta, and was proposed for the musical contest of the Conservatorio, but the registration, being late, was not accepted.

* A Giacomo Leopardi, cantata for voice ( soprano ) and orchestra ( June 19, 1898, Teatro Persiani, Recanati )

The work remained popular, becoming the most frequently printed work of the 18th century, and being arranged by a number of other composers, including Johann Sebastian Bach, who used it as the basis for his cantata Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden ( Root out my sins, Highest One ), BWV 1083.

He briefly travelled to Russia in July 1914 to collect research materials for his dance cantata Les noces before returning to Switzerland, just before the national borders closed following the outbreak of World War I.

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.

* Antonio Caldara " Medea in Corinto " ( cantata for alto, 2 violins and basso continuo, 1711 )

While Dieterich Buxtehude was a significant composer of such works, it was largely up to the next generation to undertake cantata cycles on texts for the entire church year.