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cantata Music.|kænˈtɑːtə|
[It.; = ‘a thing sung, a song, a composition to be set to music’, f. cantare to sing; for the It. ending -ata see -ade.]
1. Originally, a narrative in verse set to recitative, or alternate recitative and air, for a single voice, accompanied by one or more instruments; now applied to a choral work, either sacred and resembling an oratorio but shorter, or secular, as a lyric drama set to music but not intended to be acted. (See Grove Dict. Mus. I. 304.)
1724H. Carey (title) Cantatas for a voice, with Accompaniment. 1744J. Green Psalmody 140 Cantata, a Song in an Opera Stile. 1751Smollett Per. Pic. (1779) I. ii. 22 Pipes perfomed the whole cantata. 1775Mrs. Harris in Priv. Lett. 1st Ld. Malmesbury I. 296 A very fine new cantata composed by Ranzini. 1861Woods Pr. of Wales in Canada 140 The Montreal Oratorio Society performed..a grand Cantata specially composed.
†2. A song, chant. (nonce-use.)
a1754Fielding True Patr. Wks. 1775 IX. 311 The..swan, whose last breath goes out in a cantata.
Hence cantatize v. nonce-wd. To perform cantatas.
1842Blackw. Mag. LI. 24 The flexile trills of a cantatizing Signora. |