Oratorio

(n.) A more or less dramatic text or poem, founded on some Scripture nerrative, or great divine event, elaborately set to music, in recitative, arias, grand choruses, etc., to be sung with an orchestral accompaniment, but without action, scenery, or costume, although the oratorio grew out of the Mysteries and the Miracle and Passion plays, which were acted.

(n.) Performance or rendering of such a composition.

格特鲁德编辑

• What was Moses in Egypt but a sublime oratorio, which was acted on the stage instead of being coldly sung in a concert-room? 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• We were perpetually talking of our Oratorios, and they were perpetually talking of their Symphonies. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.

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