A History of the Oratorio: Vol. 3
Subtitle: the Oratorio in the Classical Era (Smither, Howard E//History of the Oratorio)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: May 21, 1987
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 736
ISBN-13: 9780807817315
Subjects: Sacred & religious music; Sacred Music; Music/Songbooks; History & Criticism - General; Instruction & Study - Voice; Music / Classical; Oratorio; 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: Characteristic primarily of areas Roman Catholic Traditions, oratorios in Italian and Latin were performed in a wide variety of social contexts, not only in Italy but also in Northern and Eastern Europe and in the Iberian Peninsula.