oratorios'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.

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

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

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.

of two oratorios; and a requiem, with some other pieces of church music, are now in Vienna.

Synonyms:

classical music, serious music, classical, cantata,

Antonyms:

nonclassical, nonstandard,