Chapter IV: Part II: The Cantata and Other Short Forms

IV. THE EARLY ITALIAN SECULAR CANTATA, THE GERMAN CLASSICAL
CANTATA, THE ENGLISH ANTHEM, AND OTHER SHORT
CHORAL FORMS 99

The entrance of dramatic tendencies into music--Carissimi
and the early cantata; Rossi, Cesti, and Legrenzi--A.
Scarlatti, the culminating point in cantata-writing in
Italy; later developments of the Italian cantata--The
German church cantata and its relation to the Lutheran
service; cantata-texts of Neumeister and others--Bach
in the service of the church; his church cantatas--G.
F. Handel; Joseph Haydn; W. A. Mozart--English church
music in the eighteenth century; the anthem: Croft,
Greene, Boyce, and others--Later history of this motet in
England, Italy, and Germany; decadence of the madrigal;
the glee, the part-song, the masque and the ode.

V. THE CANTATA IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 142

Conflict of tradition and progress--Ludwig van Beethoven:
‘Ruins of Athens,’ ‘Glorious moment’; Andreas Romberg--C.
M. von Weber; Franz Schubert; Ludwig Spohr--Mendelssohn:
‘First Walpurgis Night,’ etc.; 95th Psalm; _Lauda Sion_,
etc.--Hector Berlioz: ‘Damnation of Faust’--Robert
Schumann: ‘Paradise and the Peri’; ‘Pilgrimage of the
Rose’; Miscellany--Ferdinand Hiller; Niels W. Gade:
‘Crusaders,’ ‘Erl-King’s Daughter,’ ‘Christmas Eve,’
‘Comala,’ etc.--Félicien David: ‘The Desert’; Minor
cantata writers in Germany and England: Benedict, Costa,
Macfarren, Smart, Bennett--Anglican ritual-music and the
German evangelical motet in the nineteenth century; the
part-song.

VI. THE MODERN CANTATA 189

Wagner: ‘The Love Feast of the Apostles’; Liszt: ‘The
Bells of Strassburg,’ ‘Prometheus’--Brahms: ‘Song of
Triumph,’ ‘Song of Destiny’--Max Bruch: ‘Frithjof,’
‘Fair Ellen,’ ‘The Cross of Fire,’ ‘The Lay of the
Bell,’ etc.--Rheinberger; Dvořák; Hofmann; Goetz--Grieg;
Gounod; Sullivan: ‘The Golden Legend’; Barnby’s Gaul;
Stainer; Cowen--Parry; Mackenzie; Stanford--Elgar:
‘King Olaf’; ‘Caractacus’; ‘The Black Knight’--
Coleridge-Taylor: ‘Hiawatha’ cycle--Dudley Buck:
‘The Golden Legend’; ‘The Light of Asia’; Horatio
Parker and other cantata writers in the United States.