(n.) A poem set to music; a musical composition comprising choruses, solos, interludes, etc., arranged in a somewhat dramatic manner; originally, a composition for a single noise, consisting of both recitative and melody.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet the most surprising aspect of the Pussy Riot cantata is how accessible and light on the ear it seems.
(2) With the exception of the Bach pilgrimage, in which Sir John Eliot Gardiner performed the cantatas in churches around Europe, authentic music rarely tries to recreate original acoustics and seating arrangements.
(3) For now, he's listening to Bach cantatas, reading Proust – "my cultural life has become much more important to me" – and preparing to visit the Peter Doig exhibition in Edinburgh.
(4) This unique political cantata interleaves statements made by the three convicted members of Pussy Riot with famous declarations on the subject of free speech from sources including George Washington, Shakespeare and comedian Lenny Bruce , whose observation "Take away the right to say 'fuck' and you take away the right to say 'Fuck the government'" is giving the BBC Singers so much trouble.
(5) He has brought his experimental one-man show, Breathless – A Dramatic Cantata , up to the Space Cabaret @54 venue, on the city's North Bridge.
(6) Oliver Knussen kicks it off with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a programme that includes Britten's Spring Symphony and Cantata Academica, and the premiere of a commission from Ryan Wigglesworth.