(1) Zimmermann even invented a new name for the genre, which he called a lingual, a piece that blends elements of the cantata , oratorio, radio play, journalism, and feature film.(2) At one time, every self-respecting choral society programmed his cantata Hiawatha's Wedding Feast.(3) His poetry has been set to music in a cantata by James DeMars called ÔÇÿToto's Say,ÔÇÖ and was also featured in the documentary Birthwrite: Growing Up Hispanic.(4) Tippett chose W.H. Auden's autobiography ÔÇÿFar away and long agoÔÇÖ as his prose setting, and he cast the work in the form of a Purcell cantata .(5) It was not unusual for a Baroque composer - such as his father - to adapt a sinfonia from a cantata into a concerto movement, or to take a secular aria and insert it, with a new text, into a sacred work.(6) In 1961, Harris wrote a large cantata on St. Francis's Canticle of the Sun for solo voice and chamber ensemble.(7) The music for the cantata Alexander Nevsky was taken from Sergei Prokofiev's score for a movie of the same name which won him popular acclaim but displeased the Soviet government.(8) It must be admitted, however, that one of the most memorable parts of the cantata is the Scherzo interlude, ÔÇÿThe Flight into EgyptÔÇÖ, for piano alone.(9) There's much sense in gathering Bach's solo bass cantatas for a single CD.(10) His works include much orchestral music, cantatas , and chamber compositions.(11) For the meditative arias and extended choruses, Bach apparently planned to adapt pre-existing music from his cantatas , a parody procedure he often used and one that Koopman, too, has adopted to make his realization.(12) I like the idea of alternating vocal cantatas with instrumental concertos; the variety ensures that the music always sounds fresh.(13) Immediately after Bonhoeffer was jailed, his family sent him a music score of Bach cantatas .(14) He also performed numerous songs, oratorios and cantatas .(15) It carries a fair part of my CD collection so I can listen to Bach cantatas and Beethoven string quartets as well as BBC News, downloaded from the internet, at the gym, while walking, and on long plane flights.(16) The Beethoven Experience is dedicated to broadcasting the entire works of Ludwig Van Beethoven - from the complete string quartets and symphonies to lesser known works such as the folk songs and the cantatas .
