cantata

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Ellington wrote nonstop for specific performers and performances, as Bach did with, say, his weekly church cantatas.

From Los Angeles Times

What other quartet of that era would have made its recorded debut not with standard repertoire but with a cantata by Darius Milhaud, written just a few years before?

From New York Times

So there will be extra interest in these forces’ performance of Taneyev’s final major work, the massive, gaudy cantata “At the Reading of a Psalm.”

From New York Times

Her teaching space became a musical salon, and she led a chorus of students in revelatory performances of Bach cantatas.

From New York Times

Originally composed as a cantata in three movements, it was first sung in honour of the duke's 75th birthday.

From BBC