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Definitions of oratorio in various dictionaries:
noun - a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text
A composition for voices and orchestra, telling a sacred story without costumes, scenery, or dramatic action.
noun - a type of musical composition
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| It's a long, dramatic musical piece, usually on a religious theme |
| This term for an extended musical composition comes from the Italian for "small chapel" |
| The term for this choral form comes from "oratory", a chapel in a church, where it was developed |
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| A musical composition for voices and orchestra, telling a sacred story without costumes, scenery, or dramatic action. |
| a large-scale, usually narrative musical work for orchestra and voices, typically on a sacred theme, performed without costume, scenery, or action. Well-known examples include Bach's iChristmas Oratorioi, Handel's iMessiahi, and Haydn's iThe Creationi. |
| a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text |
| a piece of music for orchestra and singers that tells a story, usually on a religious subject, without acting |
| a long piece of music for singers and instruments in which a religious story is told in songs |
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| An oratorio (Italian pronunciation: [oratrjo]) is a large musical composition for orchestra, choir, and soloists. Like an opera, an oratorio includes the use of a choir, soloists, an ensemble, various distinguishable characters, and arias. However, opera is musical theatre, while oratorio is strictly a concert piece though oratorios are sometimes staged as operas, and operas are sometimes presented in concert form. In an oratorio there is generally little or no interaction between the characters, and no props or elaborate costumes. A particularly important difference is in the typical subject matter of the text. Opera tends to deal with history and mythology, including age-old devices of romance, deception, and murder, whereas the plot of an oratorio often deals with sacred topics, making it appropriate for performance in the church. Protestant composers took their stories from the Bible, while Catholic composers looked to the lives of saints, as well as to Biblical topics. Oratorios |