Excerpt from University Musical Encyclopedia
Works of Palestrina and Vittoria - Other Fine Masses for the Dead - Five Modern Requiems of Deathless Reputation by Mozart, Cherubini, Brahms, and Verdi - The Contrast in Styles of Composition; The Motet; Variation in the Polyphonic Style Due to Greater Simplicity - Text Either from the Office Books or Scripture - Modern Motets Really Mote than Sacred Cantatas - Profitable Practice for Polyphonic Singers; The Chorale; Origin of the Chorale - Its Rapid Spread - Sources - Famous Chorales - Organ Accompaniment; The Anthem; The Culminating Point of Ritual Music in Anglican Churches, in which it Takes the Place of the Motet - Long List of English Composers from Elizabeth to Victoria, Broken only by the Great Rebellion; Oratorio As An Art-Form; Definition - Oratorio and Opera - Secular and Sacred - Distinction of Forms - Oratorio Compared to a Cathedral - The Highest Form of Musical Art; The Sacred Musical Drama; Stage and Pulpit - Ancient Musical Drama - Early Christianity and the Stage - Sacred Plays in the Church - Outside of the Church - The Miracle Play in England - Music in the Sacred Plays
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