The Standard Cantatas - Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers: A Handbook [Illustrated]

This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents, linked Footnotes, and linked Index

CONTENTS
PREFACE
THE CANTATA
BACH
Ich Hatte viel Bekümmerniss
Gottes Zeit
Festa Ascensionis Christi
Ein’ Feste Burg
BALFE
Mazeppa
BEETHOVEN
The Ruins of Athens
The Glorious Moment
BENEDICT
St. Cecilia
BENNETT
The May Queen
The Exhibition Ode
BERLIOZ
Romeo and Juliet
The Damnation of Faust
BRAHMS
Triumphlied
BRUCH
Frithjof
Salamis
Fair Ellen
Odysseus
BUCK
Don Munio
Centennial Meditation of Columbia
The Golden Legend
The Voyage of Columbus
The Light of Asia
CORDER
The Bridal of Triermain
COWEN
The Sleeping Beauty
DVORÁK
The Spectre’s Bride
FOOTE
Hiawatha
GADE
Comala
Spring Fantasie
The Erl King’s Daughter
The Crusaders
GILCHRIST
The Forty-sixth Psalm
GLEASON
The Culprit Fay
The Praise Song To Harmony
HANDEL
Acis and Galatea
Alexander’s Feast
L’Allegro
HATTON
Robin Hood
HAYDN
The Seven Words
Ariadne
HILLER
Song of Victory
HOFMANN
Melusina
LESLIE
Holyrood
LISZT
Prometheus
The Bells of Strasburg
MACFARREN
Christmas
MACKENZIE
The Story of Sayid
Jubilee Ode
MASSENET
Mary Magdalen
MENDELSSOHN
The Walpurgis Night
Antigone
Œdipus at Colonos
As the Hart Pants
The Gutenberg Fest-Cantata
Lauda Sion
MOZART
King Thamos
Davidde Penitente
The Masonic Cantatas
PAINE
Œdipus Tyrannus
The Nativity
The Realm of Fancy
Phœbus, Arise
PARKER, H. W.
King Trojan
PARKER, J. C. D.
The Redemption Hymn
RANDEGGER
Fridolin
RHEINBERGER
Christophorus
Toggenburg
ROMBERG
Lay of the Bell
SCHUBERT
Miriam’s War Song
SCHUMANN
Advent Hymn
The Pilgrimage of the Rose
The Minstrel’s Curse
SINGER
The Landing of the Pilgrims
SMART
The Bride of Dunkerron
King René’s Daughter
SULLIVAN
On Shore and Sea
The Golden Legend
WAGNER
Love Feast of the Apostles
WEBER
Jubilee Cantata
Kampf Und Sieg
WHITING
The Tale of the Viking
APPENDIX
INDEX