How do you use Oratorios in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Oratorios meaning
plural of oratorio
Using Oratorios
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of oratorio
- In the example corpus, oratorios often appears in combinations such as: oratorios and, and oratorios.
Context around Oratorios
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 3 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Oratorios
- In this selection, "oratorios" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 23.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, late, secular, songs, took, continued and musicals stand out and add context to how "oratorios" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as songs oratorios and choruses and astonishing including oratorios musicals and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "oratorios" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with oratorios
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Oratorios also continued to be written, clearly influenced by Handel's models. (12 words)
Recent decades have revived his secular cantatas and what one might call 'secular oratorios' or 'concert operas'. (17 words)
Fauser, p. 228 Saint-Saëns composed more than sixty sacred vocal works, ranging from motets to masses and oratorios. (19 words)
Reed wrote, "Elgar's genius rose to its greatest height in his orchestral works" and quoted the composer as saying that, even in his oratorios, the orchestral part is the most important. (32 words)
The oratorios continued to be performed but not long after Handel's death they were thought to need some modernisation, and Mozart orchestrated a German version of Messiah and other works. (31 words)
Haydn's new intentions also meant that he was willing to spend much time on a single work: both oratorios took him over a year to complete. (27 words)
Example sentences (10)
Fauser, p. 228 Saint-Saëns composed more than sixty sacred vocal works, ranging from motets to masses and oratorios.
Haydn's new intentions also meant that he was willing to spend much time on a single work: both oratorios took him over a year to complete.
In 1790, just before Mozart's death, with his reputation spreading rapidly, Haydn was poised for a series of successes, notably his late oratorios and "London" symphonies.
Jennifer Beakes, "The Horn Parts in Handel's Operas and Oratorios and the Horn Players Who Performed in These Works", DMA diss.
Oratorios also continued to be written, clearly influenced by Handel's models.
Recent decades have revived his secular cantatas and what one might call 'secular oratorios' or 'concert operas'.
Reed wrote, "Elgar's genius rose to its greatest height in his orchestral works" and quoted the composer as saying that, even in his oratorios, the orchestral part is the most important.
Their emphasis on accessibility brought huge successes in opera, and in other vocal music such as songs, oratorios, and choruses.
The oratorios continued to be performed but not long after Handel's death they were thought to need some modernisation, and Mozart orchestrated a German version of Messiah and other works.
What he had was endless curiosity combined with stubbornness", adding "His work list is astonishing, including oratorios, musicals and concertos, as well as hundreds of jazz compositions.
Common combinations with oratorios
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: