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Recent Examples of cantata
De Priest will also star in a Vivaldi cantata, with the group also performing works by Telemann and Bach.
Vivaldi, Bach and Telemann also figure prominently on the last program of the season Aug. 16 at Visitation Catholic Church.
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Patrick Neas, Kansas City Star, 21 June 2024
According to Francisco, the composers represented no less than 30 print collections of solo songs, cantatas, motets, polyphonic works, settings for psalms and masses, a magnificat, a vespers service, a dozen sonatas, and scores for nine operas and other staged works.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
Bach's full Christmas Oratorio is a collection of six cantatas, each for a specific feast day during the holiday period.
—Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 22 Mar. 2024
Among his nearly countless other works, Bach also composed hundreds of church cantatas for the liturgical year.
—Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2024
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Patrick Neas, Kansas City Star, 21 June 2024
According to Francisco, the composers represented no less than 30 print collections of solo songs, cantatas, motets, polyphonic works, settings for psalms and masses, a magnificat, a vespers service, a dozen sonatas, and scores for nine operas and other staged works.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
Bach's full Christmas Oratorio is a collection of six cantatas, each for a specific feast day during the holiday period.
—Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 22 Mar. 2024
Among his nearly countless other works, Bach also composed hundreds of church cantatas for the liturgical year.
—Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cantata
Noun
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We're bound by the same beliefs, the same psalms, and the same sacred pursuit of liberty.—
Kaia Hubbard,
CBS News,
11 June 2025
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The funeral of Pope Francis began with a short musical chant and psalm spoken in Latin after an open Book of the Gospels had been placed on top of Pope Francis’ closed coffin carried by pallbearers from inside St. Peter’s and placed on a red carpet on the edge of the church steps.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
26 Apr. 2025
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Three years later, the follow-up, Caroline 2, expands outward in every direction, pairing scraggy, strummed chorales with heart-on-sleeve mantras and distorted furore.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
30 May 2025
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The 70-voice chorale will be accompanied by an organist and a chamber orchestra.—
Melinda Moore,
Chicago Tribune,
15 May 2025
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Some family members called Obama's presence days later at a funeral service and his rendition of the hymn a poignant moment as the country grappled with the horror of people gunned down in church.—
Deborah Barfield Berry,
USA Today,
17 June 2025
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The English cook and writer’s 2006 book is a heartfelt hymn for wonderful food and flavors, without hours spent toiling in the kitchen or overly formal settings.—
Hayley Maitland,
Vogue,
7 June 2025
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The carol, released in 1994, leads the Global 200 for a record-extending 19th week and Global Excl.—
Gary Trust,
Billboard,
30 Dec. 2024
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The evening culminates with a tree lighting and carol singing.—
Kirby Adams,
The Courier-Journal,
15 Dec. 2024
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Toward the end of the anthem, Chenoweth, 56, held a long, opera-style high note to applause before concluding her rendition.—
Taijuan Moorman,
USA Today,
24 June 2025
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Frelick found the fan after the game and gave him a bat, bringing closure on a wild day that included another Crow-Armstrong home run, a Cubs comeback that fell short and an inspiring pregame performance of the Black anthem and the national anthem by the Leo High School choir.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
20 June 2025
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Idols also shows how Yungblud’s bellow is tailor-made for cathartic ballads.—
Maura Johnston,
Rolling Stone,
21 June 2025
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But Heart veers away from the Christian-college coffeehouse vibes and the stomping, whooping ballads of the debut album and the big hit.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
20 June 2025
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That’s the opening line of Slipknot’s rage-rot canticle.—
SPIN Contributor,
SPIN,
12 Feb. 2025
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Her vocal elevates the song far beyond even its folk roots to something far more traditional, a canticle, a spiritual.—
Andrew Unterberger,
Billboard,
3 Sep. 2019
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The original was a perky folk-pop ditty that sums up the events of the Revolution, like the Boston Tea Party.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
14 June 2025
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Some drew on popular terrace chants such as Fortune’s Always Hiding (West Ham United), Tired and Weary (Birmingham City) and the aforementioned Grimsby Town ditty about fishing.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
7 June 2025
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“Cantata.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cantata. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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