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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Standard Cantatas, by George P. Upton This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers Author: George P. Upton Release Date: May 4, 2010 [EBook #32248] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STANDARD CANTATAS *** Produced by Stephen Hutcheson, Charley Howard and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) THE Standard Cantatas THEIR STORIES, THEIR MUSIC, AND THEIR COMPOSERS _A Handbook_ By GEORGE P. UPTON AUTHOR OF "THE STANDARD OPERAS," "THE STANDARD ORATORIOS," "WOMAN IN MUSIC," ETC. CHICAGO A. C. McCLURG AND COMPANY 1888 Copyright By A. C. McClurg and Co. A.D. 1887 PREFACE. The "Standard Cantatas" is the third of the series in which the "Standard Operas" and "Standard Oratorios" have been its predecessors. Of necessity, therefore, the same method has been followed in the arrangement and presentation of the author's scheme. As in the works above mentioned, short sketches of the music and stories of the cantatas are presented, together with biographies of their composers, some of which are reproduced from the other volumes with slight changes, the repetitions being necessary for the sake of uniformity. The sketches are prefaced by a comprehensive study of the cantata in its various forms, from its early simple recitative or aria style down to its present elaborate construction, which sometimes verges closely upon that of the opera or oratorio. The word "cantata" is so flexible and covers such a wide area in music, that it has been a work of some difficulty to decide upon the compositions that properly co
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