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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A cantata in nine movements by Josef Rheinberger will also be performed.
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Direct speech has that personal quality Jean-Jacques Rousseau later recognized as being intrinsic to the best cantatas.
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However, in two cantatas in book 3 allusive figuration recurs in a manner that indubitably aids the drama.
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Much more important as a cantata composer was Rossi, a childhood pupil of de Macque.
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Musical variety seems to have been Campra's principal aim in nearly half of his later cantatas.
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The cantata ends with a famous meditation on the setting moon and Pleiades.
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There were many voices, screaming differently, loudly raised in a badly orchestrated cantata .
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These masterly cantatas date from different periods in Bach's life.