The Standard Oratorios: Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers
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Chapters (77)
- THE Standard Oratorios THEIR STORIES, THEIR MUSIC, AND THEIR COMPOSERS
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- THE STANDARD ORATORIOS.
- THE ORATORIO.
- BACH.
- The Christmas Oratorio.
- The Saint Matthew Passion.
- The Magnificat in D.
- BEETHOVEN.
- The Mount of Olives.
- BENNETT.
- The Woman of Samaria.
- BERLIOZ.
- The Requiem.
- BRAHMS.
- The German Requiem.
- COSTA.
- Eli.
- ANTON DVORÁK.
- The Stabat Mater.
- GOUNOD.
- The Redemption.
- Mors et Vita.
- HANDEL.
- Israel in Egypt.
- Saul.
- Samson.
- The Messiah.
- Judas Maccabæus.
- The Dettingen Te Deum.
- HAYDN.
- The Creation.
- The Seasons.
- LISZT.
- The Legend of the Holy Elizabeth.
- Christus.
- MACFARREN.
- St. John the Baptist.
- MACKENZIE.
- The Rose of Sharon.
- MENDELSSOHN.
- St. Paul.
- Hymn of Praise.
- Elijah.
- Christus.
- MOZART.
- The Requiem.
- PAINE.
- St. Peter.
- ROSSINI.
- Stabat Mater.
- RUBINSTEIN.
- The Tower of Babel.
- Paradise Lost.
- SAINT-SAËNS.
- Christmas Oratorio.
- SCHUMANN.
- Paradise and the Peri.
- SPOHR.
- The Last Judgment.
- SULLIVAN.
- The Prodigal Son.
- The Light of the World.
- VERDI.
- The Manzoni Requiem.
- SACRED MUSIC IN AMERICA.
- APPENDIX.
- INDEX.
- UPTON'S MUSICAL HANDBOOKS.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- BIOGRAPHIES OF MUSICIANS.
- THE SURGEON'S STORIES
- LAUREL-CROWNED TALES.
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