Giacomo Carissimi (1 gen 1605 anni – 1 gen 1674 anni)

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Chief Italian composer of oratorios in Schutz time, a priest who served as organist and music director at the Jesuit German aand Hungarian College in Rome. The oratorio offered a more modest format than opera to tell religious stories.

Jephte, his most famous oratorio, takes its story from the book of Judges. The Israelite commander Jephte vows that if God grants him victory over the Ammonites, he will sacrifice the first person who greets him on his return home. That turns out to be his beloved daughter, a virgin, who is duly slaughtered after spending two months on the mountaintop with her companions, lamenting her fate...The daughter's lament makes use of echo effects that suggest the reverberations of her tumbling off the rocky face of the surrounding mountains.

Cantata: a sung, or vocal piece, as opposed to sonata, a played or instrumental one. A solo csuccessor to the madrigal that eventually became a relatively ambitious setting mixing several forms in a quasi-dramatic sequence: recitatives, arias, little dancelike songs (arietta) and so forth. Regular alternation of narrative and lyric items.Most of the conventional aria types that later provided the core of Italian opera were tried out in the cantata as well.

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