cantatan.
/kanˈtɑːtə/, /kənˈtɑːtə/, U.S. /kənˈtɑdə/ Music.† 2. A song, chant.Apparently an isolated use.
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. Music I. 304.)
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1724 H. Carey (title) Cantatas for a voice, with accompaniment.
1744 J. Green Psalmody 140 Cantata, a Song in an Opera Stile.
1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle I. ii. 19 Pipes..performed the whole cantata.
1775 Mrs. Harris in Priv. Lett. 1st Ld. Malmesbury I. 296 A very fine new cantata composed by Ranzini.
1861 N. A. Woods Prince of Wales in Canada & U.S. 140 The Montreal Oratorio Society performed..a grand Cantata specially composed.
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1745 H. Fielding True Patriot 31 Dec. 2/1 The..Swan, whose last Breath goes out in a Cantata.
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cantatize v. To perform cantatas.Apparently an isolated use.
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1842 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 51 24 The flexile trills of a cantatizing Signora.
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