FTP, identify this musical form, which is a scaled-down version of the oratorio, hundreds of which were written by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Schonberg wrote two of them, Ode to Napoleon and A Survivor from Warsaw, and William Walton's Belshazzar's Feast is another example of this type of composition. The form was created by Giacomo Carissimi, and became a favorite of Schutz and Buxtehude, while Handel wrote a number of the secular variety, including Alexander's Feast and Acis and Galatea. FTP, identify this musical form, which is a scaled-down version of the oratorio, hundreds of which were written by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Schonberg wrote two of them, Ode to Napoleon and A Survivor from Warsaw, and William Walton's Belshazzar's Feast is another example of this type of composition.
the cantata