History Main / Cantata

[[AC: Western Animation]]
* ''Series/FraggleRock'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqI2Hl5VDa4 "Whoopee Cantata"]], tweaked to include {{Ska}} beats. In the show, is used to welcome back Uncle Matt who, hilariously, hates it.
* ''Series/SesameStreetSongsHomeVideo'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zClFjaOV4cU "Old MacDonald Cantata"]] turns "Old [=MacDonald=] Had a Farm" into a makeshift cantata.

See also {{Opera}}, much lengthier than both the {{Oratorio}} and the Cantata and meant to be performed on stage, with costumes and all; OneWomanWail; and OminousLatinChanting. For that matter, ballads are vocal compositions in verse and were originally written to accompany dances.

A cantata (literally "sung", derived from the Italian word "cantare") is a vocal composition (solo or chorale) with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements.

* Music/LesLuthiers[='=]s LongTitle [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trQy3IUk-Ek piece]] "Cantata del Adelantado Don Rodrigo Díaz de Carreras, de sus hazañas en tierras de Indias, de los singulares acontecimientos en que se vio envuelto, y de cómo se desenvolvió"[[labelnote: Translation]]Precocious Don Rodrigo Díaz de Carreras's Cantata, about his feats in the land of the Indies, about the unique events in which he got involved, and about the ways in which he untangled himself from them[[/labelnote]]. It has a narrator (non-sung) offering DeadpanSnarker commentary.

* ''LightNovel/AriaTheScarletAmmo'': PlayedForLaughs in episode 6, when after Kinji opens a drawer full of women's underwear, Carl Orff ''Music/CarminaBurana'' plays in all of its glory. Made even more hilarious by Kinji's DeadpanSnarker response.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og0I6irS5jc "She Has to Overcome Her Fear"]] for ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline''.

* The choral concert redux of the play ''1600 Pennsylvania Avenue'', "A White House Cantata". It's notable due to its purposeful usage of TalkingToHimself. Unfortunately, it was a flop, so it caused quite the disappointment to its creator, Music/LeonardBernstein.

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[[AC: Films - Live-Action]]

* Music/MagoDeOz's album "Gaia II: La Voz Dormida" [[LongestSongGoesLast ends]] with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHBjlleWOkk "La Cantata del Diablo — Missit me Dominus"]].[[labelnote: Translations]]Respectively, "Gaia II: The Sleeping Voice" and "The Devil's Cantata -- The Lord has sent me"[[/labelnote]]

* Music/MagoDeOz's album "Gaia II: La Voz Dormida" [[LongestSongGoesLast ends]] with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHBjlleWOkk "La Cantata del Diablo -- Missit me Dominus"]].[[labelnote: Translations]]Respectively, "Gaia II: The Sleeping Voice" and "The Devil's Cantata -- The Lord has sent me"[[/labelnote]]

* ''Film/TheManWhoKnewTooMuch'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goqJgPyqKJE "Storm Clouds Cantata"]] plays, InUniverse, during the climax of the movie. It echoes the happenings of the plot and is used as a MusicalTrigger. Many fans thought it was a pre-existent ClassicalMusic piece; in reality, it's an original soundtrack composed by Arthur Benjamin.

* ''Literature/Ivanhoe'' is adapted into an eponymous, dramatic cantata by Music/VictorSieg. It earned him a Prix de Rome.

* Music/CarlOrff's ''Music/CarminaBurana'' cantata [[AdaptationDistillation very liberally based]] on a collection of eponymous Medieval poems. Its opening and closing cantus [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4U9QJ1nzrg "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi]] has become a StandardSnippet for {{Epic Movie}}s, particularly, the "StandardSnippet/OFortuna" movement.[[labelnote: Translations]]Respectively, "Songs of Beuern" and "Fortuna, Empress of the World"[[/labelnote]]

* Cantata Blast, the leader of the SIRENs, in the fanfic ''Fanfic/SevenDaysInSunnyJune''.

* ''LightNovel/AriaTheScarletAmmo'': PlayedForLaughs in episode 6, when after Kinji opens a drawer full of women's underwear, Carl Orff ''Music/CantataOrbis'' plays in all of its glory. Made even more hilarious by Kinji's DeadpanSnarker response.

* Music/DeepPurple includes Bach's "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben" cantata as part of the intro of "You Fool No One/The Mule", an elaborate organ solo that quickly deranges into a musical mess.

* Music/JohannSebastianBach dominates the cantata composition scene with his 200+ religious ({{anvillicious}} and making use of Lutheran hymns and Bible versicles) and secular cantatas (often about Myth/ClassicalMythology). His cantatas are generally recognized as the finest examples of the genre. Examples include:

** Notably {{averted}} in his "Music/SchweigtStillePlaudertNicht" cantata, a piece popularly known as the "Coffee Cantata". However, it's not a cantata but a comic operetta -- lengthier than a cantata but shorter than an actual opera. The "Coffee Cantata" is a story about a [[DrinkBasedCharacterization daughter]] trying to convince her father that [[MustHaveCaffeine coffee is good, or at least innocent]]. It turned UsefulNotes/FrederickTheGreat into a huge fan of Bach.

* Music/JohannSebastianBach's "The Coffee Cantata" which, as explained above, is [[GenreBusting not a cantata but an operetta]].

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrq626ro5VU "Christ lag in Todes Banden"]] (BWV 4).[[labelnote: Translation]]Christ Lay in the Snares of Death[[/labelnote]] Its third stanza features a StopAndGo in the word "nicht" (nothing remains) and eleven, sharp violin chords for a PsychoStrings effect.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn4zEYWjejA "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott"]][[labelnote: Translation]]A Mighty Fortress Is Our God[[/labelnote]] (BWV 80) [[LyricalColdOpen starts right away with the vocals]] instead of the traditional instrumental beginning.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFlTRAhCav8 Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen]][[labelnote: Translation]]Rejoice, You Hearts[[/labelnote]], a [[LyricalDissonance lyrically disonant]] celebration of Jesus' resurrection. Its fourth and fifth movements feature a CounterpointDuet.
** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amuqUQs0aFg "Herr, gehe nicht ins Gericht mit deinem Knecht"]] (BWV 105)[[labelnote: Translation]]Lord, do not pass judgment on Your servant[[/labelnote]], the strings [[HeartbeatSoundtrack evoke a heart beating]] rapidly from anxiety and fear which echo the lyrics. The cantata is about a sinner being tormented by his own conscience.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG3wF5yNUFM "Herr Jesu Christ, du höchstes Gut"]] (BWV 113)[[labelnote: Translation]]Lord Jesus Christ, O highest good[[/labelnote]]. Its seventh movement is infamous for its [[ExaggeratedTrope abuse]] of MelismaticVocals to the point of being nearly unperformable.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT3RlTfuTdk "Herr Jesu Christ, wahr’ Mensch und Gott"]] (BWV 127) [[labelnote: Translation]]Lord Jesus Christ, true Man and God[[/labelnote]], famed due to its {{Subdued Section}}s. This piece pioners loud-soft intervals by one century.
** The sixth and tenth movements of the "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben"[[note]]despite not being its translation, it's known as "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"[[/note]] cantata appear quite a lot in the SmallReferencePools most creators use. In such cases, it's usual for the tempo to be slower, the original German lyrics to never appear, and the melody to be an arrangement of the original.[[note]]The music jargon for when a piece is adapted for a different set of voices or instruments than those intended for the composer[[/note]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNnGAzHTliU "Hercules auf dem Scheidewege"]] (BWV 213)[[labelnote: Translation]]Hercules at the Crossroads[[/labelnote]], secular and featuring an AnsweringEcho in one of its arias.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNgQ8tK08EU "Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis"]] (BWV 21)[[labelnote: Translation]]I Had Much Grief[[/labelnote]], famous for its [[ExaggeratedTrope abundant]] {{Song Style Shift}}s, which render it one of Bach's highest quality pieces.
** His [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDf6pHmjwH0 "Komm, du süße Todesstunde"]] (BWV 161)[[labelnote: Translation]]Come, Sweet Death[[/labelnote]] cantata purportedly [[InvokedTrope invokes]] the trope ObiWanMoment.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfkq-S7Vis8 "Liebster Gott, wenn werd ich sterben?"]] (BWV 8)[[labelnote: Translation]]Beloved God, When Will I Die?[[/labelnote]]. It's about wondering when one will die, so it appropriately features a TickTockTune to depict the passing of time.
** The opening chorus of the secular cantata [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hASwusETOF8 "Tönet, ihr Pauken! Erschallet, Trompeten!"]] (BWV 24)[[labelnote: Translation]]Resound, ye drums! Ring out, ye trumpets![[/labelnote]] begins with an emphatic passage for solo, DramaticTimpani, occasionally punctuated by the ''basso continuo'' instruments. It carried over to Bach's "Christmas Oratorio".
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sj-NKqR0tw "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme"]] (BWV 140)[[labelnote: Translation]]Wake Up, the Voice Calls to us[[/labelnote]]. As it was customary for Lutheran liturgical music of the Baroque era, it features SopranoAndGravel dialogues between Jesus (sung by a bass) and the Soul (sung by a soprano) in a CallAndResponseSong act.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZQ3pPLGwvY "Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen"]] (BWV 12)[[labelnote: Translation]]Weeping, Lamenting, Worrying, Fearing[[/labelnote]] boasts a four-bar ostinato bass-line pattern (aka, a FallingBass).

* Music/BenjaminBritten's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsZP-IH8XbM "Rejoice in the Lamb"]] cantata freely uses and shifts [[UncommonTime nonconventional tempos]].
* Music/CarlOrff's ''Music/CarminaBurana'' cantata [[AdaptationDistillation very liberally based]] on a collection of eponymous Medieval poems. Its opening and closing cantus [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4U9QJ1nzrg "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi]] has become a StandardSnippet for {{Epic Movie}}s, particularly, the "StandardSnippet/OFortuna" movement.[[labelnote: Translations]]Respectively, "Songs of Beuern" and "Fortuna, Empress of the World"[[/labenote]]

* Music/FelixMendelssohn's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festgesang "Festgesang"]] cantata. It's also called the Gutenberg cantata because it celebrates Gutenberg's genius at inventing printing with movable type. He thought [[ItWillNeverCatchOn it'd never catch on]], but it did (become a respected classic music piece).

** The sixth and tenth movements of the "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben"[[labelnote: Translation]]Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring[[/labelnote]] cantata appear quite a lot in the SmallReferencePools most creators use. In such cases, it's usual for the tempo to be slower, the original German lyrics to never appear, and the melody to be an arrangement of the original.[[note]]The music jargon for when a piece is adapted for a different set of voices or instruments than those intended for the composer[[/note]]

** The opening chorus of the secular cantata [["Tönet, ihr Pauken! Erschallet, Trompeten!"]][[labelnote: Translation]]Resound, ye drums! Ring out, ye trumpets![[/labelnote]] begins with an emphatic passage for solo, DramaticTimpani, occasionally punctuated by the ''basso continuo'' instruments.

** "Music/WasMirBehagtIstNurDieMuntreJagd" (BWV 208)[[labenote: Translation]]The Lively Hunt is All my Heart's Desire[[/labelnote]], the Hunting Cantata. If there's a wedding and they aren't playing LohengrinAndMendelssohn, then it's this cantata the musical accompaniment. Additionally, of all of his cantatas, Bach [[RecycledSoundtrack reused]] this one the most (in other works of his). Ironically, it was composed for TheGrandHunt exploits of Duke Christian of Saxe-Weissenfels.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrq626ro5VU "Christ lag in Todes Banden"]] (BWV 4).[[labelnote: Translation]]Christ Lay in the Snares of Death[[/labelnote]] Its third stanza features a StopAndGo in the word "nicht" (nothing remains).

* ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'': Its prequel, ''Dissidia Duodecim'' features the AutobotsRockOut [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx3N7PjXzWk "Cantata Mortis"]] in its soundtrack.

* The choral concert redux of the play ''1600 Pennsylvania Avenue'', ''A White House Cantata". It's notable due to its purposeful usage of TalkingToHimself.

See also {{Opera}} (much lengthier than both the {{Oratorio}} and the Cantata), and OneWomanWail. For that matter, ballads are vocal compositions in verse and were originally written to accompany dances.

** Notably {{averted}} in his "Music/SchweigtStillePlaudertNicht" cantata, a piece popularly known as the "Coffee Cantata". However, it's not a cantata but a miniature comic opera -- lengthier than a cantata but shorter than an actual opera. The "Coffee Cantata" is a story about a [[DrinkBasedCharacterization daughter]] trying to convince her father that [[MustHaveCaffeine coffee is good, or at least innocent]]. It turned UsefulNotes/FrederickTheGreat into a huge fan of Bach.

* Music/JohannSebastianBach's "The Coffee Cantata" which, as explained above, is not actually a cantata.

* Creator/AnnaRussell[='=]s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbI_jiQ_T9I "Wir gehen in den Automaten"]]. It's about ordering bacon at the Automat.

* Music/CarlOrff's ''Music/CarminaBurana'' cantata is [[AdaptationDistillation based]] on a collection of eponymous Medieval poems. Its opening and closing cantus [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4U9QJ1nzrg "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi]] has become a StandardSnippet for {{Epic Movie}}s, particularly, the "StandardSnippet/OFortuna" movement.[[labelnote: Translations]]Respectively, "Songs of Beuern" and "Fortuna, Empress of the World"[[/labenote]]

* ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'': Its prequel, ''Dissidia Duodecim'' features [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx3N7PjXzWk "Cantata Mortis"]] in its soundtrack.

* Sullivan, from Creator/GilbertAndSullivan, created "The Golden Legend", based on a poetic work of the same name by Creator/HenryWadsworthLongfellow.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sj-NKqR0tw "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme"]] (BWV 140)[[labelnote: Translation]]Wake Up, the Voice Calls to us[[/labelnote]]. As it was customary for Lutheran liturgical music of the Baroque era, it features dialogues between Jesus (the Vox Christi) and the Soul in a CallAndResponseSong act.
** "Music/WasMirBehagtIstNurDieMuntreJagd" (BWV 208)[[labenote: Translation]]The Lively Hunt is All my Heart's Desire[[/labelnote]], the Hunting Cantata. If there's a wedding and they aren't playing LohengrinAndMendelssohn, then it's this cantata the musical accompaniment. Additionally, of all of his cantatas, Bach [[RecycledSoundtrack reused]] this one the most (in other works of his).

** "Music/WasMirBehagtIstNurDieMuntreJagd" (BWV 208)[[labenote: Translation]]The Lively Hunt is All my Heart's Desire[[/labelnote]], the Hunting Cantata. If there's a wedding and they aren't playing LohengrinAndMendelssohn, then it's this cantata the musical accompaniment.

** His cantata [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzx5R6fZ_VE "Iphigenia in Brooklyn"]] (S. 53162)[[note]]In Greek mythology, Iphigenia is killed as a human sacrifice for the offended goddess Artemis[[/note]] has lots of FunWithHomophones and [[EverythingIsAnInstrument unusual instruments]] such as wine bottles.

* Within Music/SymphonyX's album "V-The New Mythology Suite", there are [[RockMeAmadeus interspersed excerpts]] of Bach's cantata [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjuuJHutQ8g "Ich habe meine Zuversicht"]] (BWV 188)[[labelnote: Translation]]I have (placed) my confidence[[/labelnote]],

* Music/LesLuthiers[='=]s LongTitle[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trQy3IUk-Ek "Cantata del Adelantado Don Rodrigo Díaz de Carreras, de sus hazañas en tierras de Indias, de los singulares acontecimientos en que se vio envuelto, y de cómo se desenvolvió"]][[labelnote: Translation]]Precocious Don Rodrigo Díaz de Carreras's Cantata, about his feats in the land of the Indies, about the unique events in which he got involved, and about the ways in which he untangled himself from them[[/labelnote]]. It has a narrator (non-sung) offering DeadpanSnarker commentary.

* Danish composer Music/NielsGade's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMJvFd1hJvg "Elverskud"]] cantata.

* Cantata-of-the-depths, the gem god and patron of the Irugu clan, from ''ComicBook/''{{Exalted}}''.

See also {{Opera}} (much lenghtier than both the {{Oratorio}} and the Cantata), and OneWomanWail.

* Music/CarlOrff's ''Music/CarminaBurana'' cantata is [[AdaptationDistillation based]] on a collection of eponymous Medieval poems. Its opening and closing cantus [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4U9QJ1nzrg "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi]] has become a StandarSnippet for {{Epic Movie}}s, particularly, the "StandardSnippet/OFortuna" movement.[[labelnote: Translations]]Respectively, "Songs of Beuern" and "Fortuna, Empress of the World"[[/labenote]]

** [[http://youtu.be/o73shN739YU?t=17m57s Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen]][[labelnote: Translation]]Rejoice, You Hearts[[/labelnote]]. Its fourth and fifth movements feature a CounterpointDuet.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFlTRAhCav8 "Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen"]], a [[LyricalDissonance lyrically disonant]] celebration of Jesus' resurrection.

* Music/WendyCarlos's album ''Music/SwitchedOnBach'' can be described as "Bach meets the synthesizer". It features a pair of Bach's cantatas, namely:

* Carl Orff's ''Music/CarminaBurana'', based on a [[AdaptationDistillation collection of Medieval poems]].

* Cantata-of-the-depths, the gem god and patron of the Irugu clan, from ''ComicBook/''Exalted}}''.

* Kathy Cantata from ''VideoGame/CSI''.