How do you use Oratorio in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like cantata or classical, plus the exact meaning.
Oratorio meaning
A musical composition, often based on a religious theme; similar to opera but with no costume, scenery or acting.
Using Oratorio
- The main meaning on this page is: A musical composition, often based on a religious theme; similar to opera but with no costume, scenery or acting.
- Useful related words include: cantata, classical music, classical, serious music.
- In the example corpus, oratorio often appears in combinations such as: the oratorio, an oratorio, oratorio the.
Context around Oratorio
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 13 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Oratorio
- In this selection, "oratorio" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, performed, last, saint, solomon and fully stand out and add context to how "oratorio" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1846 the oratorio was criticized and 1872 an oratorio the light. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "oratorio" sits close to words such as abbe, abeyance and abp, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with oratorio
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
An Oratorio About Shanghai’s Jews Opens in China at a Difficult Timenytimes. (13 words)
A narrative upon the text of the oratorio was provided by the composer. (13 words)
In music * San Nicola di Bari, an oratorio composed by Giovanni Bononcini (1693). (13 words)
Harding, p. 185 His mutual regard for British choirs continued for the rest of his life, and one of his last large-scale works, the oratorio The Promised Land, was composed for the Three Choirs Festival of 1913. (38 words)
His most important compositions during this period were a symphony in D major, performed in the summer of 1776, and the oratorio La passione di Gesù Cristo with a text by Metastasio performed during Advent of 1776. (37 words)
In the 1620s, on a site adjacent to the church, the Fathers commissioned designs for their own residence and for an oratory (or oratorio in Italian) in which to hold their spiritual exercises. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
An Oratorio About Shanghai’s Jews Opens in China at a Difficult Timenytimes.
Červená performed last year on Sept. 29 in Jan Zastera's oratorio ''Saint Ludmila'' at the Lateran Basilica in Rome to mark the Czech presidency of the European Union.
Handel’s rarely performed oratorio Solomon is one of his most exuberant, lavish works.
A narrative upon the text of the oratorio was provided by the composer.
A Study of Influence (Cambridge, 1991) and an attempt to adapt the structures of opera and oratorio to the medium of fiction, notably in the 'Cyclops' episode of Ulysses.
Composed and premiered in 1846, the oratorio was criticized by members of the New German School but nonetheless remains one of the most popular Romantic choral-orchestral works in the repertoire.
Harding, p. 185 His mutual regard for British choirs continued for the rest of his life, and one of his last large-scale works, the oratorio The Promised Land, was composed for the Three Choirs Festival of 1913.
He had to compose an oratorio or concerto at every feast and teach the orphans both music theory and how to play certain instruments.
He visited Milan again the following year with the oratorio L'adorazione delli tre re magi al bambino Gesù (RV 645, also lost).
He was the first to write an oratorio fully on the subject of the Book of Revelation (as opposed to a Last Judgement in a Requiem like that of Giuseppe Verdi ).
His most famous work, the oratorio Messiah with its "Hallelujah" chorus, is among the most popular works in choral music and has become the centrepiece of the Christmas season.
His most important compositions during this period were a symphony in D major, performed in the summer of 1776, and the oratorio La passione di Gesù Cristo with a text by Metastasio performed during Advent of 1776.
His next large-scale work was the sequel to The Apostles – the oratorio The Kingdom (1906).
In 1970 Piazzolla returned to Paris where with Ferrer he wrote the oratorio El pueblo joven later premiered in Saarbrücken, Germany in 1971.
In Klein's view, this approach was old-fashioned, and the familiarity of Saint-Saëns's treatment of the oratorio form impeded his success in it.
In music * San Nicola di Bari, an oratorio composed by Giovanni Bononcini (1693).
In the 1620s, on a site adjacent to the church, the Fathers commissioned designs for their own residence and for an oratory (or oratorio in Italian) in which to hold their spiritual exercises.
Jephtha was first performed on 26 February 1752; even though it was his last oratorio, it was no less a masterpiece than his earlier works.
LA Times critic Mark Swed and others described the work as " oratorio -like"; Swed pointed out that the work is Glass's "most chromatic, complex, psychological score" and that the "The orchestra dominates (.
Sullivan then produced his Festival Te Deum (1872), an oratorio, The Light of the World (1873), and incidental music for West End productions of several Shakespeare plays.
Common combinations with oratorio
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the oratorio 12×
- an oratorio 6×
- oratorio the 3×
- oratorio was 2×
- and oratorio 2×