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What is a cantata?

What is a cantata? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (music) A vocal composition accompanied by instruments and generally containing more than one movement, typical of 17th and 18th century Italian music.
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In this cantata the ground bass of the Crucifixus of the B minor Mass is used.
In 1961, Harris wrote a large cantata on St. Francis's Canticle of the Sun for solo voice and chamber ensemble.
It was founded in 1989 with the aim providing local Swiss audiences with quality opera and cantata performances.
If the cantata is finished on this scale, its production will be a national event.
The prelude in E forms the obbligato organ part of the opening chorus of the cantata Wir danken dir.
At one time, every self-respecting choral society programmed his cantata Hiawatha's Wedding Feast.

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