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    Oratorio
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

    ORATORIO or tor eo, musical composition employing chorus, orchestra...without stage action or scenery. The immediate forerunner of oratorio, Emilio del Cavalieres sacred opera La rappresentazione...St. Philip Neri . Soon afterward there developed the oratorio volgare, also in Italian, which employed a testo, or...
     
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    Recitative
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

    ...tev , musical declamation for solo voice, used in opera and oratorio for dialogue and for narration. Its development at the close...much recitative of this sort. It was used also in cantata and oratorio. In the 18th cent. greater importance was assumed by the recitativo...
     
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    Cantata
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

    ...composite musical form similar to a short unacted opera or brief oratorio , developed in Italy in the baroque period. The term was first...Bach the cantata became, in general, a diminutive form of the oratorio. ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition...
     
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    Overture
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

    OVERTURE instrumental musical composition written as an introduction to an opera, ballet, oratorio, musical, or play. The earliest Italian opera overtures were simply pieces of orchestral music and were called sinfonie. Jean...
     
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    Libretto
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

    LIBRETTO l bret o Ital.,=little book, the text of an opera or an oratorio. Although a play usually emphasizes an integrated plot, a libretto is most often a loose plot connecting a series of episodes...
     

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