Cantata Definition

kən-tätə
cantatas
noun
cantatas
A musical composition consisting of vocal solos, choruses, etc., often with instrumental accompaniment, used as a setting for a story to be sung but not acted.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Cantata

Noun

Singular:
cantata
Plural:
cantatas

Origin of Cantata

  • Italian (aria) cantata sung (aria) feminine past participle of cantare to sing from Latin cantāre kan- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Italian.

    From Wiktionary

Cantata Sentence Examples

  • The most considered poets of the day joined the Arcadia and Lyric individually wrote much excellent verse, but they Latin authors were the models they chose, and Gargao, the most prominent Arcadian, composed the Cantata de Dido, a gem of ancient art, as well as some charming sonnets to friends and elegant odes and epistles.

  • The footman, who was distributing leaflets with Kutuzov's cantata, laid one before Pierre as one of the principal guests.

  • In June 1792 he returned home, and, breaking his journey at Bonn, was presented with a Cantata by Beethoven, then aged two-and-twenty, whom he invited to come to Vienna as his pupil.

  • For the Mass the rule is that there are six lights at High Mass, four at a missa cantata, and two at private masses.

  • Class singing based on hymns, popular songs and a modern cantata.

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Words Starting With

CCACAN

Words Ending With

ATAATA

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cantata

Words Starting With C and Ending With A

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