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A musical composition, particularly a religious work from the 17th or 18th century, for one or more voices accompanied by instruments.
🌱Composers of the 18th century composed sacred cantatas by the dozen, and Bach's friend G. P. Telemann actually wrote over a thousand. 🌳A cantata is sung, unlike a sonata, which is played on instruments only. The most famous cantatas are by Johann Sebastian Bach, who wrote the music for about 200 religious cantatas, using hymns and new religious poems as his texts. His cantatas consisted of several different sections for different voices—solos, duets, and choruses. Some of his nonreligious cantatas have been performed like mini-operas. incantation 1、 A use of spells or verbal charms spoken or sung as part of a ritual of magic.
2、 A formula of words used in, or as if in, such a ritual.
🌱He repeated the words slowly over and over like an incantation. 🌳Incantation comes directly from the Latin word incantare,"enchant." Incantare itself has cantare as a root, which reminds us that magic and ritual have always been associated with chanting and music. Incantations have often been in strange languages; "Abracadabra" is a not-so-serious version of an incantation. cantor An official of a Jewish synagogue who sings or chants the music of the services and leads the congregation in prayer.
🌱The congregation waited for the cantor to begin the prayers before joining in. 🌳The cantor is, after the rabbi, the most important figure in a Jewish worship service. A cantor not only must possess an excellent singing voice but also must know by heart long passages of Hebrew. Cantors such as Jan Peerce and Richard Tucker became international opera stars. The comedian and singer Edward Israel Iskowitz renamed himself Eddie Cantor for his original profession and became enormously popular on stage, screen, radio, and television for over 40 years. descant An additional melody sung above the principal melody.
🌱The soprano added a soaring descant to the final chorus that held the listeners spellbound. 🌳The prefix des-, meaning "two" or "apart," indicates that the descant is a "second song" apart from the main melody. In popular songs a descant will often be sung at the very end to produce a thrilling climax.
🌱Composers of the 18th century composed sacred cantatas by the dozen, and Bach's friend G. P. Telemann actually wrote over a thousand. 🌳A cantata is sung, unlike a sonata, which is played on instruments only. The most famous cantatas are by Johann Sebastian Bach, who wrote the music for about 200 religious cantatas, using hymns and new religious poems as his texts. His cantatas consisted of several different sections for different voices—solos, duets, and choruses. Some of his nonreligious cantatas have been performed like mini-operas. incantation 1、 A use of spells or verbal charms spoken or sung as part of a ritual of magic.
2、 A formula of words used in, or as if in, such a ritual.
🌱He repeated the words slowly over and over like an incantation. 🌳Incantation comes directly from the Latin word incantare,"enchant." Incantare itself has cantare as a root, which reminds us that magic and ritual have always been associated with chanting and music. Incantations have often been in strange languages; "Abracadabra" is a not-so-serious version of an incantation. cantor An official of a Jewish synagogue who sings or chants the music of the services and leads the congregation in prayer.
🌱The congregation waited for the cantor to begin the prayers before joining in. 🌳The cantor is, after the rabbi, the most important figure in a Jewish worship service. A cantor not only must possess an excellent singing voice but also must know by heart long passages of Hebrew. Cantors such as Jan Peerce and Richard Tucker became international opera stars. The comedian and singer Edward Israel Iskowitz renamed himself Eddie Cantor for his original profession and became enormously popular on stage, screen, radio, and television for over 40 years. descant An additional melody sung above the principal melody.
🌱The soprano added a soaring descant to the final chorus that held the listeners spellbound. 🌳The prefix des-, meaning "two" or "apart," indicates that the descant is a "second song" apart from the main melody. In popular songs a descant will often be sung at the very end to produce a thrilling climax.
CANT, from the Latin verb cantare, meaning "sing," produces several words that come directly from Latin. But some others came to English by way of French, which added an h to the root, giving us such words as chant and chantey.🌸