Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The music of a passion-play; a form of cantata or oratorio treating of the sufferings and death of Christ.
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Examples
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The passion-music was the direct outgrowth of the passion-play.
The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers 1876
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In 1829 he brought out the latter's "St. Matthew" passion-music after it had lain concealed for an entire century.
The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers 1876
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The conclusion of this period brings us to the second stage in the evolution of the oratorio; namely, the passion-music, which may be regarded as the connecting link between the earlier form as developed by the Italian composers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the oratorio as it appeared after it had felt the mighty influence of Handel.
The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers 1876
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Johann Sebastiani succeeded Schütz, and in 1672 published a passion-music, in which the narrative appears in recitative form and solidly harmonized chorales are used, -- with this peculiarity, that only the treble was sung, the other voices being taken by the strings.
The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers 1876
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The passion-music was usually assigned to three priests, one of whom recited or intoned the part of
The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers 1876
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So should the passion-music close, and not with fugue of praise and triumph like an oratorio.
The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers 1876
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The fragments of the second part are in the form of the passion-music, and include five tenor recitatives, narrating the dialogue between
The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers 1876
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The passion-music of Bach's time, as we have already seen, was the complement of the mysteries of Mediæval days.
The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers 1876
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Schütz, however, was the first to establish the passion-music in genuine oratorio form.
The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers 1876
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The passion-music of Handel was but a weak prelude to the colossal works which were to follow from his pen.
The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers 1876
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