Examples from literature

• Besides these he composed several cantatas for church use, and several instrumental pieces. 
• For these resources he composed a succession of cantatas, every feast day in the ecclesiastical year being represented by from one to five separate works. 
• Here, among other works, he composed fifty Italian cantatas, usually consisting of two airs with recitative. 
• Mrs. Julian Marshall, born at Rome, has produced several orchestral works, as well as several cantatas, an operetta, a nocturne for clarinet and orchestra, and a number of songs. 
• Two oratorios, several cantatas, about sixty original songs for single voice and piano, and very many other writings of a literary and musical kind.