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  • 'Music for singing'

  • Secular and religious

  • Orquestra, choir and soloists, recitatives and arias.

  • German: chorale

  • Telemann, J.S.Bach

  • 'Coffee Cantata'(Bach):The composer makes fun of the craze of having coffee.

Oratorio
Cantata
Passion

  • An opera with a religuious theme but without stage performance.

  • Longer and more elaborate than the cantata.

  • Orchestra, choir, soloists, recitatives and arias.

  • It tells stories based on texts from the Old and New Testament.

  • G.F.Haendel: 'Messiah'

  • Oratorio about the passion and the death of Christ.

  • Narrator: evangelist tells the events in a recitative style; characters: soloists;people: choir.

  • Bach: 'St.John Passion'and 'St.Matthew Passion.Bach included versions of chorales that reinforce the most intense moments of the narration.

Chorale
Motet
Mass

AUDITION

a. Find the musical pharases and the verses.

b. Indicate the musical form.

c. Analyze the texture

ICH WILL HIER BEI DIR STEHEN

St. Matthew Passion (J.S.Bach)

  • Released in Leipzig in 1729, it's a masterpiece of Lutheran music.

  • Structured in two parts and written for orchestra (flutes, oboes, violins, violas, viola da gamba, organ and basso continuo), soloists (soprano, contralto, tenor and bass) and double choir (children and adults)

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