oratorio's Usage Examples:

His operas, for all their daintiness and melody, no longer hold the stage; the Masses in which he praised God with a cheerful heart " have been condemned by the severer decorum of our own day; of his oratorios the Creation alone survives.

The musical selections (settings of scenes from sacred history) were called oratorios.

A fine setting of the hymn "Veni, Creator Spiritus" was given at Birmingham in 1891, and the oratorio Bethlehem in 1894.

Another of the local choral pioneers was Morgan Morgans who founded a choir which as early as 1864 was performing oratorios locally.

He hopes to compose the first oratorio to be performed in zero gravity.

We sing mainly oratorios and sacred songs, but also a wide range of lighter pieces.

Sadly, he never wrote an oratorio based on the story of Job.

In the choral numbers of the five masses, and in the oratorios Die Heilige Elisabeth and Christus, the rarity of fugal polyphony acts as a drawback.

She was the principal singer at his oratorio concerts, and acquired such a reputation as a vocalist that she was offered an engagement for the Birmingham festival, which, however, she declined.

This method, in the case of an entire Mass, results in a length far too great for a Roman Catholic service; and Bach's B minor Mass, which is such a setting of the entire test, must be regarded as a kind of oratorio.

Synonyms:

cantata, classical, serious music, classical music,

Antonyms:

nonstandard, nonclassical,