A History of the Oratorio: Vol. 4
Subtitle: The Oratorio in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Smither, Howard E//History of the Oratorio)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: November 8, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 856
ISBN-13: 9780807825112
Subjects: 20th century music; Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900); Sacred & religious music; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Sacred Music; Music/Songbooks; Music; Genres & Styles - Classical; History & Criticism - General; Instruction & Study - Voice; Music / Classical; Religious - Christian; amateur choral societies; music festivals; aesthetic theory; criticism; historicism; romanticism; nationalism; libretto; Friedrich Schneider; Louis Spohr; Felix Mendelssohn; Robert Schumann; Franz Liszt; William Crotch; George MacFarren; C. Hubert H. Parry; Edward Elgar; John Sullivan Dwight; William Henry Fry; George Frederick Bristow; John Knowles Paine; Horatio William Parker; Hector Berlioz; Camille Saint-Saens; Cesar Franck; Charles Gounod; Jules Massenet; Lorenzo Perosi; Pater Hartmann Paul Eugen Josef von An der Lan-Hochbrunn; Arnold Schoenberg; Paul Hindemith; Hans Werner Henze; Igor Stravinsky; Arthur Honegger; Frank Martin; Olivier Messiaen; Ralph Vaughan Williams; William Walton; Michael Tippett
First sentence: When a musically educated German of the nineteenth century-whether composer, performer, writer about music, or informed layman-used the word Oratorium (oratorio) as a musical term, what sort of work might he have had in mind?