Definition of cantata in English:

cantata

noun kanˈtɑːtəkənˈtɑdə

A medium-length narrative piece of music for voices with instrumental accompaniment, typically with solos, chorus, and orchestra.
康塔塔（一种有独唱的中等长度的叙述或描述音乐，一般还配有合唱和管弦乐队演奏）
Example sentencesExamples
- 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.
- 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.
- Immediately after Bonhoeffer was jailed, his family sent him a music score of Bach cantatas.
- These accounts of Bach's two cantatas for solo contralto will probably upset the period-instrument purists - Craig Smith's conducting of a modern chamber orchestra owes little to recent notions of baroque practice.
- Its repertoire is rich and varied, including a number of difficult and rarely performed musical pieces, opera and ballet music, as well as cantatas and oratorios.
- There's much sense in gathering Bach's solo bass cantatas for a single CD.
- 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.
- He also performed numerous songs, oratorios and cantatas.
- In 1961, Harris wrote a large cantata on St. Francis's Canticle of the Sun for solo voice and chamber ensemble.
- 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.
- His works include much orchestral music, cantatas, and chamber compositions.
- 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.
- I like the idea of alternating vocal cantatas with instrumental concertos; the variety ensures that the music always sounds fresh.
- But in a way that's the real miracle of the cantatas: Bach's music is so centred on the words, and yet still manages to transcend and transform all their limitations.
- At one time, every self-respecting choral society programmed his cantata Hiawatha's Wedding Feast.
- It must be admitted, however, that one of the most memorable parts of the cantata is the Scherzo interlude, ‘The Flight into Egypt’, for piano alone.
- His poetry has been set to music in a cantata by James DeMars called ‘Toto's Say,’ and was also featured in the documentary Birthwrite: Growing Up Hispanic.
- Tippett chose W.H. Auden's autobiography ‘Far away and long ago’ as his prose setting, and he cast the work in the form of a Purcell cantata.
- His works include a cyclic setting of Shevchenko's poetry; operas, including Taras Bulba; art songs and choral works; cantatas; piano pieces; and chamber music.
- 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.

Origin

Early 18th century: from Italian cantata (aria) 'sung (air)', from cantare 'sing'.

Rhymes

barter, Bata, carter, cassata, charter, chipolata, ciabatta, darter, desiderata, errata, garter, imprimatur, Inkatha, Jakarta, Magna Carta, Maratha, martyr, Odonata, passata, persona non grata, rata, Renata, Río de la Plata, serenata, sonata, Sparta, starter, strata, taramasalata, tartar, Tatar, Zapata

Definition of cantata in US English:

cantata

nounkənˈtɑdəkənˈtädə

A medium-length narrative piece of music for voices with instrumental accompaniment, typically with solos, chorus, and orchestra.
康塔塔（一种有独唱的中等长度的叙述或描述音乐，一般还配有合唱和管弦乐队演奏）
Example sentencesExamples
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- At one time, every self-respecting choral society programmed his cantata Hiawatha's Wedding Feast.
- His works include much orchestral music, cantatas, and chamber compositions.
- It must be admitted, however, that one of the most memorable parts of the cantata is the Scherzo interlude, ‘The Flight into Egypt’, for piano alone.
- 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.
- He also performed numerous songs, oratorios and cantatas.
- But in a way that's the real miracle of the cantatas: Bach's music is so centred on the words, and yet still manages to transcend and transform all their limitations.
- 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.
- Immediately after Bonhoeffer was jailed, his family sent him a music score of Bach cantatas.
- His poetry has been set to music in a cantata by James DeMars called ‘Toto's Say,’ and was also featured in the documentary Birthwrite: Growing Up Hispanic.
- There's much sense in gathering Bach's solo bass cantatas for a single CD.
- Its repertoire is rich and varied, including a number of difficult and rarely performed musical pieces, opera and ballet music, as well as cantatas and oratorios.
- These accounts of Bach's two cantatas for solo contralto will probably upset the period-instrument purists - Craig Smith's conducting of a modern chamber orchestra owes little to recent notions of baroque practice.
- I like the idea of alternating vocal cantatas with instrumental concertos; the variety ensures that the music always sounds fresh.
- Tippett chose W.H. Auden's autobiography ‘Far away and long ago’ as his prose setting, and he cast the work in the form of a Purcell cantata.
- 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.
- His works include a cyclic setting of Shevchenko's poetry; operas, including Taras Bulba; art songs and choral works; cantatas; piano pieces; and chamber music.
- In 1961, Harris wrote a large cantata on St. Francis's Canticle of the Sun for solo voice and chamber ensemble.

Origin

Early 18th century: from Italian cantata (aria) ‘sung (air)’, from cantare ‘sing’.

词汇	cantata
释义	Definition of cantata in English: cantata noun kanˈtɑːtəkənˈtɑdə A medium-length narrative piece of music for voices with instrumental accompaniment, typically with solos, chorus, and orchestra. 康塔塔（一种有独唱的中等长度的叙述或描述音乐，一般还配有合唱和管弦乐队演奏） Example sentencesExamples 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. 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. Immediately after Bonhoeffer was jailed, his family sent him a music score of Bach cantatas. These accounts of Bach's two cantatas for solo contralto will probably upset the period-instrument purists - Craig Smith's conducting of a modern chamber orchestra owes little to recent notions of baroque practice. Its repertoire is rich and varied, including a number of difficult and rarely performed musical pieces, opera and ballet music, as well as cantatas and oratorios. There's much sense in gathering Bach's solo bass cantatas for a single CD. 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. He also performed numerous songs, oratorios and cantatas. In 1961, Harris wrote a large cantata on St. Francis's Canticle of the Sun for solo voice and chamber ensemble. 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. His works include much orchestral music, cantatas, and chamber compositions. 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. I like the idea of alternating vocal cantatas with instrumental concertos; the variety ensures that the music always sounds fresh. But in a way that's the real miracle of the cantatas: Bach's music is so centred on the words, and yet still manages to transcend and transform all their limitations. At one time, every self-respecting choral society programmed his cantata Hiawatha's Wedding Feast. It must be admitted, however, that one of the most memorable parts of the cantata is the Scherzo interlude, ‘The Flight into Egypt’, for piano alone. His poetry has been set to music in a cantata by James DeMars called ‘Toto's Say,’ and was also featured in the documentary Birthwrite: Growing Up Hispanic. Tippett chose W.H. Auden's autobiography ‘Far away and long ago’ as his prose setting, and he cast the work in the form of a Purcell cantata. His works include a cyclic setting of Shevchenko's poetry; operas, including Taras Bulba; art songs and choral works; cantatas; piano pieces; and chamber music. 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. Origin Early 18th century: from Italian cantata (aria) 'sung (air)', from cantare 'sing'. Rhymes barter, Bata, carter, cassata, charter, chipolata, ciabatta, darter, desiderata, errata, garter, imprimatur, Inkatha, Jakarta, Magna Carta, Maratha, martyr, Odonata, passata, persona non grata, rata, Renata, Río de la Plata, serenata, sonata, Sparta, starter, strata, taramasalata, tartar, Tatar, Zapata Definition of cantata in US English: cantata nounkənˈtɑdəkənˈtädə A medium-length narrative piece of music for voices with instrumental accompaniment, typically with solos, chorus, and orchestra. 康塔塔（一种有独唱的中等长度的叙述或描述音乐，一般还配有合唱和管弦乐队演奏） Example sentencesExamples 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. 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. 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. At one time, every self-respecting choral society programmed his cantata Hiawatha's Wedding Feast. His works include much orchestral music, cantatas, and chamber compositions. It must be admitted, however, that one of the most memorable parts of the cantata is the Scherzo interlude, ‘The Flight into Egypt’, for piano alone. 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. He also performed numerous songs, oratorios and cantatas. But in a way that's the real miracle of the cantatas: Bach's music is so centred on the words, and yet still manages to transcend and transform all their limitations. 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. Immediately after Bonhoeffer was jailed, his family sent him a music score of Bach cantatas. His poetry has been set to music in a cantata by James DeMars called ‘Toto's Say,’ and was also featured in the documentary Birthwrite: Growing Up Hispanic. There's much sense in gathering Bach's solo bass cantatas for a single CD. Its repertoire is rich and varied, including a number of difficult and rarely performed musical pieces, opera and ballet music, as well as cantatas and oratorios. These accounts of Bach's two cantatas for solo contralto will probably upset the period-instrument purists - Craig Smith's conducting of a modern chamber orchestra owes little to recent notions of baroque practice. I like the idea of alternating vocal cantatas with instrumental concertos; the variety ensures that the music always sounds fresh. Tippett chose W.H. Auden's autobiography ‘Far away and long ago’ as his prose setting, and he cast the work in the form of a Purcell cantata. 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. His works include a cyclic setting of Shevchenko's poetry; operas, including Taras Bulba; art songs and choral works; cantatas; piano pieces; and chamber music. In 1961, Harris wrote a large cantata on St. Francis's Canticle of the Sun for solo voice and chamber ensemble. Origin Early 18th century: from Italian cantata (aria) ‘sung (air)’, from cantare ‘sing’.
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