This genre of religious dramatic music is intended for concerts, not stage.
The short prologue of a piece in this genre represents a curse with three descending tritones and fate with a rising D minor triad. The final choral fugue of that piece in this genre begins in D major over a long pedal point before an F-sharp minor stretto. Giacomo Carissimi's Jephte is in this genre. A soft pizzicato note and sudden C major chord from the chorus and orchestra on the word "Licht" follows a C minor overture with unresolved chromatic harmonies depicting Chaos in a piece in this genre. Mendelssohn modeled his (*) Elijah on Bach's pieces in this genre after organizing the revival of the latter's St Matthew Passion. A Haydn piece in this genre was inspired by Paradise Lost and Genesis. This genre of religious dramatic music is intended for concerts, not stage. A piece in this genre repeats "forever and ever" in its final Hallelujah Chorus. For 10 points, name this genre of Haydn's Creation and Handel's Messiah.
The short prologue of a piece in this genre represents a curse with three descending tritones and fate with a rising D minor triad.
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