cantata

The cantata is less than 15 minutes long in total.

Christmas cantata can also mean the performance of the music.

The Cantata can be from eight to nine minutes long.

Although many of his works are lost, at least 209 cantatas have survived.

The cantata is similar in many respects to the earlier work.

This work is a documentary in the form of a cantata.

Young voices are central to the cantata, although it is not a children's work.

Between 1663 and 1664 he wrote a cycle of cantatas for the church year.

The cantata historically has run through the week before Christmas.

Therefore the cantata is for five parts and in Latin.

The cantata form had not yet been introduced from Italy.

Sometimes these choir pieces became very long and turned into cantatas.

A typical performance of the cantata will last around twenty minutes.

The theme of the cantata is then the answer to the question in what direction life should go.

It is the third new cantata of his first annual cycle.

Arias can be found in cantatas or just by themselves.

His works available in modern edition include a Christmas cantata.

Cantatas were in great demand for the services of the Lutheran church.

Bach wrote the cantatas every week to be performed in church.

That last cantata, however, was the most vital and focused.

Critical opinion about the cantata has been split since 1845.

One size of choir probably does not fit all the cantatas.

Two cantatas by Bach are also on the program (203) 831-6020.

Lasting around 15 minutes, the cantata is in one continuous movement.

Bach wrote more than 200 cantatas, of which many have survived.