cantatas

Also done some random shows with local rock bands looking for a horn player and church cantatas at the holidays.

Being able to distinguish all the various cantatas of Bach is the most trivial of trivialities.

One of Bach's most famous church cantatas, BWV 140[1], was written for the 27th (or no.

You should definitely listen to Bach's mass in B minor and his cantatas if you like vocal work and Bach.

If you did want weird, how about learning German from the lyrics of Bach cantatas?

You could train an AI (or a person) on a bunch of Bach cantatas, and likely the trainee could start churning out similar music.

His music is divine manna gifted from the heavens, but I just can't stand the cantatas.

Orchestral cantatas and operas still date back to the early 18th c.

I wish there was an endless number of works of the caliber of Homer's Odyssey or Bach's cantatas — there isn't.

For whatever reason, I much prefer the NBS recordings of most of these cantatas.

I was thinking of something general like 'classical-vocal' - I've been listening to Bach lately, so I know of cantatas at least.

At least for quite a stretch he was writing weekly cantatas where he'd do a performance on Sunday, then on Monday start writing the cantata for the next week.

John Eliot Gardner's "Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven" is a sort of musical biography featuring a (very) deep dive on the cantatas.

In fact, for a long time scholars assumed a "compositional evolution" with Bach to arrive at a chronology for the cantatas that expressed that evolution.

In addition to what most people think of as baroque polyphony, the cantatas also have a more-or-less simple "chorale tune" flowing either on top of that, or possibly in the organ pedals.

That's kind of the point, they're literally called "church cantatas" Also, it's weird how you make an explicit and positive religious reference and then express distaste at the religious context that Bach composed for and in.