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Christmas cantata

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A Christmas cantata or Nativity cantata is a cantata, music for voice or voices in several movements, for Christmas. [1]

169 relations: A cappella, A Ceremony of Carols, A Christmas Cantata (Honegger), Adoration of the Shepherds, Age of Enlightenment, Alessandro Scarlatti, Alessandro Stradella, Alfred Dürr, Alto, Andreas Hammerschmidt, Annunciation to the shepherds, Anton Bruckner, Antonio Caldara, Aria, Ariel Ramírez, Arnold Brunckhorst, Arnold van Wyk, Art Garfunkel, Arthur Honegger, Bach cantata, Baritone, Baroque, Bass (voice type), Bassoon, Benjamin Britten, Bible, Biblical Magi, Bohemia, Cantata, Carus-Verlag, Caspar Ziegler, Cello, Charles H. Gabriel, Chorale, Chorale cantata, Chorale cantata (Bach), Christen, ätzet diesen Tag, BWV 63, Christian Heinrich Rinck, Christmas, Christmas carol, Christmas Oratorio, Christoph Graupner, Christoph Wolff, Christum wir sollen loben schon, Christum wir sollen loben schon, BWV 121, Circumcision of Jesus, Cornett, Cristoforo Caresana, Czech Christmas Mass, Daniel Pinkham, ..., Darzu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes, BWV 40, David Pohle, Dies Natalis (cantata), Dresdner Kreuzchor, Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe, BWV 197a, Epiphany (holiday), Evangelist (Bach), Félix Luna, Felix Mendelssohn, Felix Woyrsch, Festive Cantata (Bruckner), Francesco Provenzale, Frank Martin (composer), Frederik Magle, Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag, Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BWV 91, Geoffrey Bush, Geoffrey Grey, Georg Christian Lehms, Georg Gebel (the younger), Georg Philipp Telemann, Gerald Finzi, Gerard von Brucken Fock, Giacomo Carissimi, Gilbert Bécaud, Gloria in excelsis Deo, Gloria in excelsis Deo, BWV 191, Gospel of Luke, Gospel of Matthew, Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, Graham Waterhouse, Hans Krieger, Hans Uwe Hielscher, Heinrich Schütz, Hodie, Horn (instrument), Hosokawa, Iain Hamilton (composer), Ich freue mich in dir, BWV 133, Ivana Loudová, Jacopone da Todi, Jakub Jan Ryba, Jimmy Webb, Johann Michael Heineccius, Johann Samuel Beyer, Johann Schein, Johann Sebastian Bach, John Henry Maunder, Josef Rheinberger, Julius Harrison, K. Lee Scott, Kurt Hessenberg, Latin, Lee Hoiby, Liturgical year, Malcolm Williamson, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Maria Newman, Mark Carlson (composer), Martin Luther, Mass (music), Mass for the Dresden court (Bach), Mass in B minor structure, Mathilde Kralik, Matthias Claudius, Mezzo-soprano, Nativity of Jesus, Ned Rorem, Nils Lindberg, Oboe, Oboe d'amore, Oboe da caccia, Oratorio, Otomar Kvěch, Otto Albert Tichý, Ottorino Respighi, Paul Sacher, Peter Skellern, Philipp Buchner, Pipe organ, Psalm 130, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Recitative, Recorder (musical instrument), Richard Crashaw, Romantic music, Rudolf Mauersberger, Saint Nicolas (Britten), Süßer Trost, mein Jesus kömmt, BWV 151, Schott Music, Sehet, welch eine Liebe hat uns der Vater erzeiget, BWV 64, Selig ist der Mann, BWV 57, Soprano, Spitta's Johann Sebastian Bach, Steve Dobrogosz, Tenor, The Animals' Christmas, The Times, Thomas Oboe Lee, Thomas Selle, Thomas Traherne, Timpani, Ton Koopman, Toshio Hosokawa, Trombone, Trumpet, Uns ist ein Kind geboren, BWV 142, Unser Mund sei voll Lachens, BWV 110, Ursula Vaughan Williams, Viola, Violin, Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her, Walter Braunfels, Werner Neumann, Western concert flute, William Lloyd Webber, William Reed (musician). Expand index (119 more) »

A cappella

A cappella (Italian for "in the manner of the chapel") music is specifically group or solo singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way.

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A Ceremony of Carols

A Ceremony of Carols, Op.

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A Christmas Cantata (Honegger)

A Christmas Cantata (French: Une cantate de Noël; German: Eine Weihnachtskantate) is a Christmas cantata composed by Arthur Honegger in 1953; it is reportedly his last composition.

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Adoration of the Shepherds

The Adoration of the Shepherds, in the Nativity of Jesus in art, is a scene in which shepherds are near witnesses to the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, arriving soon after the actual birth.

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Age of Enlightenment

The Enlightenment (also known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Reason; in lit in Aufklärung, "Enlightenment", in L’Illuminismo, “Enlightenment” and in Spanish: La Ilustración, "Enlightenment") was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 18th century, "The Century of Philosophy".

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Alessandro Scarlatti

Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti (2 May 1660 – 22 October 1725) was an Italian Baroque composer, known especially for his operas and chamber cantatas.

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Alessandro Stradella

Alessandro Stradella (Nepi, 3 April 1639 – Genoa, 25 February 1682) was an Italian composer of the middle Baroque period.

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Alfred Dürr

Alfred Dürr (3 March 1918, Berlin-Charlottenburg – 7 April 2011, Göttingen) was a German musicologist.

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Alto

The musical term alto, meaning "high" in Italian (Latin: altus), refers to the second highest part of a contrapuntal musical texture and is also applied to its associated vocal range, especially in choral music.

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Andreas Hammerschmidt

Andreas Hammerschmidt (1611 or 1612 – 29 October 1675), the "Orpheus of Zittau," was a German Bohemian composer and organist of the early to middle Baroque era.

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Annunciation to the shepherds

The Annunciation to the shepherds is an episode in the Nativity of Jesus described in the Bible in Luke 2, in which angels tell a group of shepherds about the birth of Jesus.

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Anton Bruckner

Josef Anton Bruckner was an Austrian composer, organist, and music theorist best known for his symphonies, masses, Te Deum and motets.

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Antonio Caldara

Antonio Caldara (1670 – 28 December 1736) was an Italian Baroque composer.

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Aria

An aria (air; plural: arie, or arias in common usage, diminutive form arietta or ariette) in music was originally any expressive melody, usually, but not always, performed by a singer.

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Ariel Ramírez

Ariel Ramírez (4 September 1921 – 18 February 2010) was an Argentine composer, pianist and music director.

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Arnold Brunckhorst

Arnold Matthias Brunckhorst (1670–1725) was a German organist and composer.

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Arnold van Wyk

Arnoldus Christiaan Vlok van Wyk (26 April 1916 – 27 March 1983) was a South African art music composer, one of the first notable generation of such composers along with Hubert du Plessis and Stefans Grové.

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Art Garfunkel

Arthur Ira "Art" Garfunkel (born November 5, 1941) is an American singer, poet, math teacher and actor.

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Arthur Honegger

Arthur Honegger (10 March 1892 – 27 November 1955) was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris.

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Bach cantata

The cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach (German: Bachkantaten) consist of at least 209 surviving works.

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Baritone

A baritone is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the bass and the tenor voice types.

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Baroque

The Baroque is a highly ornate and often extravagant style of architecture, art and music that flourished in Europe from the early 17th until the late 18th century.

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Bass (voice type)

A bass is a type of classical male singing voice and has the lowest vocal range of all voice types.

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Bassoon

The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor clefs, and occasionally the treble.

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Benjamin Britten

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor and pianist.

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Bible

The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, "the books") is a collection of sacred texts or scriptures that Jews and Christians consider to be a product of divine inspiration and a record of the relationship between God and humans.

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Biblical Magi

The biblical Magi (or; singular: magus), also referred to as the (Three) Wise Men or (Three) Kings, were, in the Gospel of Matthew and Christian tradition, a group of distinguished foreigners who visited Jesus after his birth, bearing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.

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Bohemia

Bohemia (Čechy;; Czechy; Bohême; Bohemia; Boemia) is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech lands in the present-day Czech Republic.

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Cantata

A cantata (literally "sung", past participle feminine singular of the Italian verb cantare, "to sing") is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements, often involving a choir.

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Carus-Verlag

Carus-Verlag is a German music publisher founded in 1972 and based in Stuttgart.

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Caspar Ziegler

Caspar Ziegler, also Kaspar Ziegler, (15 September 1621 – 17 April 1690) was a German jurist, poet, hymnwriter and composer.

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Cello

The cello (plural cellos or celli) or violoncello is a string instrument.

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Charles H. Gabriel

Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (August 18, 1856 – September 14, 1932) was a writer of gospel songs and composer of gospel tunes.

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Chorale

Chorale is the name of several related musical forms originating in the music genre of the Lutheran chorale.

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Chorale cantata

A chorale cantata is a church cantata based on a chorale—in this context a Lutheran chorale.

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Chorale cantata (Bach)

There are 52 chorale cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach surviving in at least one complete version.

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Christen, ätzet diesen Tag, BWV 63

Christen, ätzet diesen Tag (Christians, engrave this day),, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach.

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Christian Heinrich Rinck

Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck (18 February 1770 – 23 July 1846) was a German composer and organist of the late classical and early romantic eras.

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Christmas

Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ,Martindale, Cyril Charles.

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Christmas carol

A Christmas carol (also called a noël, from the French word meaning "Christmas") is a carol (song or hymn) whose lyrics are on the theme of Christmas, and which is traditionally sung on Christmas itself or during the surrounding holiday season.

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Christmas Oratorio

The Christmas Oratorio,, is an oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach intended for performance in church during the Christmas season.

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Christoph Graupner

Christoph Graupner (13 January 1683 in Kirchberg – 10 May 1760 in Darmstadt) was a German harpsichordist and composer of high Baroque music who was a contemporary of Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann and George Frideric Handel.

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Christoph Wolff

Christoph Wolff (born May 24, 1940) is a German-born musicologist.

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Christum wir sollen loben schon

"italic" (We should praise Christ beautifully) is a Lutheran Christmas hymn with a text by Martin Luther, first published in 1524 in the Erfurt ''Enchiridion''.

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Christum wir sollen loben schon, BWV 121

Christum wir sollen loben schon (We should praise Christ highly), BWV 121, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach.

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Circumcision of Jesus

The circumcision of Jesus is an event from the life of Jesus, according to the Gospel of Luke, which states in verse 2:21 that Jesus was circumcised eight days after his birth (traditionally January 1).

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Cornett

The cornett, cornetto, or zink is an early wind instrument that dates from the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods, popular from 1500 to 1650.

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Cristoforo Caresana

Cristofaro or Cristoforo Caresana (ca. 1640–1709) was an Italian Baroque composer, organist and tenor.

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Czech Christmas Mass

Czech Christmas Mass (Czech: Česká mše vánoční; Latin: Missa solemnis Festis Nativitatis D. J. Ch. accommodata in linguam bohemicam musikamque redacta – que redacta per Jac. Joa. Ryba) is a classic pastoral mass written by the Czech composer Jakub Jan Ryba in 1796.

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Daniel Pinkham

Daniel Rogers Pinkham, Jr. (June 5, 1923 – December 18, 2006) was an American composer, organist, and harpsichordist.

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Darzu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes, BWV 40

Darzu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes (For this the Son of God appeared),, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach.

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David Pohle

David Pohle (1624 – 20 December 1695) was a German composer of the Baroque era.

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Dies Natalis (cantata)

Dies Natalis (Latin: "Natal Day" or "Day of Birth"), Op.

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Dresdner Kreuzchor

The Dresdner Kreuzchor is the boys' choir of the Kreuzkirche in Dresden.

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Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe, BWV 197a

Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe (Glory be to God in the Highest),, is a Christmas cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach.

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Epiphany (holiday)

Epiphany, also Theophany, Little Christmas, or Three Kings' Day, is a Christian feast day that celebrates the revelation of God incarnate as Jesus Christ.

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Evangelist (Bach)

The Evangelist in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach is the tenor part in his oratorios and Passions who narrates the exact words of the Bible, translated by Martin Luther, in recitative secco.

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Félix Luna

Félix Luna (September 30, 1925 – November 5, 2009) was a prominent Argentine writer, lyricist and historian.

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Felix Mendelssohn

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 1809 4 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early romantic period.

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Felix Woyrsch

Felix Woyrsch (8 October 1860 in Troppau (now Opava in the Czech Republic) – 20 March 1944 in Altona) was a German composer and choir director.

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Festive Cantata (Bruckner)

The italic, WAB 16, is a festive cantata composed by Anton Bruckner in 1862 for the celebration of the laying of the foundation stone of the new ''Mariä-Empfängnis-Dom'' of Linz.

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Francesco Provenzale

Francesco Provenzale (15 September 1624 – 6 September 1704) was an Italian Baroque composer and teacher.

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Frank Martin (composer)

Frank Martin (15 September 1890 – 21 November 1974) was a Swiss composer, who lived a large part of his life in the Netherlands.

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Frederik Magle

Frederik Reesen Magle (born 17 April 1977) is a Danish composer, concert organist, and pianist.

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Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag

Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag (abbreviated to Hofmeister) is a publisher of classical music, founded by Friedrich Hofmeister in Leipzig in 1807.

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Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow

Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow or Zachau (14 November 1663, Leipzig – 7 August 1712, Halle) was a German musician and composer of vocal and keyboard music.

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Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ

"italic" ("Praise be to You, Jesus Christ") is a Lutheran hymn, written by Martin Luther in 1524.

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Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BWV 91

Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ (Praise be to You, Jesus Christ),, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach.

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Geoffrey Bush

Geoffrey Bush (23 March 1920 – 24 February 1998) was a British composer, organist and scholar of 20th century English music.

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Geoffrey Grey

Geoffrey Grey (born 26 September 1934) is a British classical composer.

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Georg Christian Lehms

Georg Christian Lehms (1684 – 15 May 1717) was a German poet and novelist who sometimes used the pen-name Pallidor.

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Georg Gebel (the younger)

Georg Gebel (25 October 1709 – 24 September 1753) was a German musician and composer.

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Georg Philipp Telemann

Georg Philipp Telemann (– 25 June 1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist.

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Gerald Finzi

Gerald Raphael Finzi (14 July 1901 – 27 September 1956) was a British composer.

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Gerard von Brucken Fock

Gerardus Hubertus Galenus von Brucken Fock (28 December 1859 – 15 August 1935) was a nineteenth-century classical Dutch pianist who gave up his career as a performer to compose and paint.

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Giacomo Carissimi

Giacomo Carissimi (baptized 18 April 160512 January 1674) was an Italian composer and music teacher.

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Gilbert Bécaud

Gilbert Bécaud (24 October 1927 – 18 December 2001) was a French singer, composer, pianist and actor, known as "Monsieur 100,000 Volts" for his energetic performances.

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Gloria in excelsis Deo

"Gloria in excelsis Deo" (Latin for "Glory to God in the highest") is a Christian hymn known also as the Greater Doxology (as distinguished from the "Minor Doxology" or Gloria Patri) and the Angelic HymnOxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (Oxford University Press 2005), article Gloria in Excelsis/Hymn of the Angels.

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Gloria in excelsis Deo, BWV 191

Gloria in excelsis Deo (Glory to God in the Highest),, is a church cantata written by the German Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach, and the only one of his church cantatas set to a Latin text.

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Gospel of Luke

The Gospel According to Luke (Τὸ κατὰ Λουκᾶν εὐαγγέλιον, to kata Loukan evangelion), also called the Gospel of Luke, or simply Luke, is the third of the four canonical Gospels.

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Gospel of Matthew

The Gospel According to Matthew (translit; also called the Gospel of Matthew or simply, Matthew) is the first book of the New Testament and one of the three synoptic gospels.

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Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel

Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel (13 January 1690 in – 27 November 1749 in Gotha) was a prolific German baroque composer.

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Graham Waterhouse

Graham Waterhouse (born 2 November 1962) is an English composer and cellist.

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Hans Krieger

Hans Krieger (born 13 March 1933) is a German writer, essayist, journalist of influential weekly papers such as Die Zeit, broadcaster and poet.

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Hans Uwe Hielscher

Hans Uwe Hielscher (born 1945) is a German organist and composer, the organist and carilloneur at the Marktkirche in Wiesbaden since 1979, internationally known as a concert organist.

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Heinrich Schütz

Heinrich Schütz (– 6 November 1672) was a German composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and often considered to be one of the most important composers of the 17th century.

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Hodie

Hodie (This Day) is a cantata by Ralph Vaughan Williams.

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Horn (instrument)

A horn is any of a family of musical instruments made of a tube, usually made of metal and often curved in various ways, with one narrow end into which the musician blows, and a wide end from which sound emerges.

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Hosokawa

Hosokawa is a Japanese surname.

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Iain Hamilton (composer)

Iain Ellis Hamilton (6 June 1922 – 21 July 2000) was a Scottish composer.

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Ich freue mich in dir, BWV 133

Ich freue mich in dir (I rejoice in You),, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach.

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Ivana Loudová

Ivana Loudová (8 March 1941 – 25 July 2017) was a Czech composer.

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Jacopone da Todi

Fra Jacopone da Todi, O.F.M. (ca. 1230 – 25 December 1306) was an Italian Franciscan friar from Umbria in the 13th century.

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Jakub Jan Ryba

Jakub Šimon Jan Ryba (surname also Poisson, Peace, Ryballandini, Rybaville; 26 October 1765 – 8 April 1815) was a Czech teacher and composer of classical music.

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Jimmy Webb

Jimmy Layne Webb (born August 15, 1946) is an American songwriter, composer, and singer.

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Johann Michael Heineccius

Johann Michael Heineccius (14 December 1674 – 11 September 1722) was a well-known German preacher and theologian, the brother of Johann Gottlieb Heineccius.

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Johann Samuel Beyer

Johann Samuel Beyer (1669 in Gotha – 9 May 1744 in Karlsbad) was a German composer and writer of a manual on singing (1703).

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Johann Schein

Johann Hermann Schein (20 January 1586 – 19 November 1630) was a German composer of the early Baroque era.

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a composer and musician of the Baroque period, born in the Duchy of Saxe-Eisenach.

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John Henry Maunder

John Henry Maunder (February 21, 1858 – January 21, 1920) was an English composer and organist best known for his cantata "Olivet to Calvary".

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Josef Rheinberger

Josef Gabriel Rheinberger (17 March 1839, in Vaduz – 25 November 1901, in Munich) was an organist and composer, born in Liechtenstein and resident for most of his life in Germany.

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Julius Harrison

Julius Allan Greenway Harrison (26 March 1885 – 5 April 1963) was an English composer who was particularly known for his conducting of operatic works.

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K. Lee Scott

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Kurt Hessenberg

Kurt Hessenberg (17 August 1908 – 17 June 1994) was a German composer and professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt am Main.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Lee Hoiby

Lee Henry Hoiby (February 17, 1926 – March 28, 2011) was an American composer and classical pianist.

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Liturgical year

The liturgical year, also known as the church year or Christian year, as well as the kalendar, consists of the cycle of liturgical seasons in Christian churches that determines when feast days, including celebrations of saints, are to be observed, and which portions of Scripture are to be read either in an annual cycle or in a cycle of several years.

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Malcolm Williamson

Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson, AO, CBE (21 November 19312 March 2003) was an Australian composer.

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Marc-Antoine Charpentier

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643 – 24 February 1704) was a French composer of the Baroque era.

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Maria Newman

Maria Louise Newman (born January 18, 1962) is an American composer of classical music, and a violinist, violist and pianist.

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Mark Carlson (composer)

Mark Carlson (born June 13, 1952) is an American composer, flutist, UCLA professor, and the founder and Artistic Director of Pacific Serenades.

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Martin Luther

Martin Luther, (10 November 1483 – 18 February 1546) was a German professor of theology, composer, priest, monk, and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation.

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Mass (music)

The Mass (italic), a form of sacred musical composition, is a choral composition that sets the invariable portions of the Eucharistic liturgy (principally that of the Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, and Lutheranism) to music.

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Mass for the Dresden court (Bach)

The Mass for the Dresden court is a Kyrie–Gloria Mass in B minor composed in 1733 by Johann Sebastian Bach.

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Mass in B minor structure

The Mass in B minor is Johann Sebastian Bach's only setting of the complete Latin text of the Ordinarium missae.

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Mathilde Kralik

Mathilde Aloisia Kralik von Meyrswalden (3 December 1857, in Linz – 8 March 1944) was an Austrian composer.

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Matthias Claudius

Matthias Claudius (15 August 1740 – 21 January 1815) was a German poet and journalist, otherwise known by the pen name of “Asmus”.

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Mezzo-soprano

A mezzo-soprano or mezzo (meaning "half soprano") is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types.

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Nativity of Jesus

The nativity of Jesus or birth of Jesus is described in the gospels of Luke and Matthew.

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Ned Rorem

Ned Rorem (born October 23, 1923) is an American composer and diarist.

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Nils Lindberg

Nils Lindberg (born 11 June 1933 in Uppsala) is a Swedish composer and pianist.

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Oboe

Oboes are a family of double reed woodwind instruments.

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Oboe d'amore

The (Italian for "oboe of love"), less commonly, is a double reed woodwind musical instrument in the oboe family.

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Oboe da caccia

The oboe da caccia (literally "hunting oboe" in Italian), also sometimes referred to as an oboe da silva, is a double reed woodwind instrument in the oboe family, pitched a fifth below the oboe and used primarily in the Baroque period of European classical music.

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Oratorio

An oratorio is a large musical composition for orchestra, choir, and soloists.

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Otomar Kvěch

Otomar Kvěch (25 May 1950 – 16 March 2018) was a Czech music composer and teacher.

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Otto Albert Tichý

Otto Albert Tichý (August 14, 1890 – October 21, 1973) was a Czech composer, teacher and organist.

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Ottorino Respighi

Ottorino Respighi (9 July 187918 April 1936) was an Italian violinist, composer and musicologist, best known for his three orchestral tone poems Fountains of Rome (1916), Pines of Rome (1924), and Roman Festivals (1928).

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Paul Sacher

Paul Sacher (28 April 190626 May 1999) was a Swiss conductor, patron and impresario.

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Peter Skellern

Peter Skellern (14 March 1947 – 17 February 2017) was an English singer-songwriter and pianist.

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Philipp Buchner

Philipp Friedrich Buchner (11 September 1614 in Wertheim – 23 March 1669 in Würzburg) was a German composer.

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Pipe organ

The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurized air (called wind) through organ pipes selected via a keyboard.

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Psalm 130

Psalm 130 (Vulgate numbering: Psalm 129) is the 130th psalm of the Book of Psalms, one of the Penitential psalms.

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Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams (12 October 1872– 26 August 1958) was an English composer.

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Recitative

Recitative (also known by its Italian name "recitativo") is a style of delivery (much used in operas, oratorios, and cantatas) in which a singer is allowed to adopt the rhythms of ordinary speech.

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Recorder (musical instrument)

The recorder is a woodwind musical instrument in the group known as internal duct flutes—flutes with a whistle mouthpiece.

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Richard Crashaw

Richard Crashaw (c. 1613 – 21 August 1649), was an English poet, teacher, Anglican cleric and Catholic convert, who was among the major figures associated with the metaphysical poets in seventeenth-century English literature.

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Romantic music

Romantic music is a period of Western classical music that began in the late 18th or early 19th century.

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Rudolf Mauersberger

Rudolf Mauersberger (born 29 January 1889 in Mauersberg, Saxony, died 22 February 1971 in Dresden) was a German choral conductor and composer.

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Saint Nicolas (Britten)

Saint Nicolas is a cantata with music by Benjamin Britten and text by Eric Crozier, written in 1948.

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Süßer Trost, mein Jesus kömmt, BWV 151

Süßer Trost, mein Jesus kömmt (Sweet comfort, my Jesus comes),, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach.

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Schott Music

Schott Music is one of the oldest German music publishers.

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Sehet, welch eine Liebe hat uns der Vater erzeiget, BWV 64

Sehet, welch eine Liebe hat uns der Vater erzeiget (Behold, what a love has the Father shown to us),, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach.

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Selig ist der Mann, BWV 57

italic (Blessed is the man),, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach.

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Soprano

A soprano is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types.

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Spitta's Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach is a 19th-century biography of Johann Sebastian Bach by Philipp Spitta.

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Steve Dobrogosz

Steve Dobrogosz (born 26 January 1956 in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania) is an American composer, songwriter and pianist.

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Tenor

Tenor is a type of classical male singing voice, whose vocal range is normally the highest male voice type, which lies between the baritone and countertenor voice types.

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The Animals' Christmas

The Animals' Christmas is the sixth solo studio album and the first Christmas album by vocalist Art Garfunkel, released in December 1985 by Columbia Records.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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Thomas Oboe Lee

Thomas Oboe Lee (born September 5, 1945 Beijing, China) is a Chinese American composer.

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Thomas Selle

Thomas Selle (23 March 1599 – 2 July 1663) was a seventeenth-century German baroque composer.

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Thomas Traherne

Thomas Traherne (1636 or 1637) was an English poet, clergyman, theologian, and religious writer.

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Timpani

Timpani or kettledrums (also informally called timps) are musical instruments in the percussion family.

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Ton Koopman

Antonius Gerhardus Michael (Ton) Koopman (born 2 October 1944) is a Dutch conductor, organist and harpsichordist.

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Toshio Hosokawa

is a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music.

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Trombone

The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family.

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Trumpet

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.

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Uns ist ein Kind geboren, BWV 142

Uns ist ein Kind geboren (Unto us a child is born),, is a Christmas cantata by an unknown composer.

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Unser Mund sei voll Lachens, BWV 110

Unser Mund sei voll Lachens (May our mouth be full of laughter),, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach.

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Ursula Vaughan Williams

Joan Ursula Penton Vaughan Williams (née Lock; 15 March 1911 – 23 October 2007) was an English poet and author, and biographer of her second husband, the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.

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Viola

The viola is a string instrument that is bowed or played with varying techniques.

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Violin

The violin, also known informally as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family.

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Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her

"italic" ("From Heaven Above to Earth I Come") is a hymn text relating to the Nativity of Jesus, written by Martin Luther in 1534.

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Walter Braunfels

Walter Braunfels (19 December 1882 – 19 March 1954) was a German composer, pianist, and music educator.

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Werner Neumann

Werner Neumann (21 January 1905, Königstein – 24 April 1991, Leipzig) was a German musicologist.

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Western concert flute

The Western concert flute is a transverse (side-blown) woodwind instrument made of metal or wood.

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William Lloyd Webber

William Southcombe Lloyd Webber CBE (11 March 1914 – 29 October 1982) was an English organist and composer, achieving some fame as a part of the modern classical music movement yet commercially facing mixed opportunities.

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William Reed (musician)

William Reed (9 September 1859 – 2 November 1945) was a Canadian organist, choir conductor, and composer.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_cantata

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