Secular oratorios

This heading is assigned to oratorios with secular texts. Oratorios with sacred texts are assigned the heading [Oratorios.]
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009003735
- info:lc/authorities/sh2009003735
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh2009003735#concept
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
Collection Membership(s)
Variants
- Oratorios, Secular
Broader Terms
- Dramatic music
- Oratorios
Sources
- found: Musical works in LC database with secular texts called "oratorio".
- found: New Grove dict. of mus. WWW site, Nov. 18, 2008 (Oratorio, passim.: Seven works by Handel are sometimes classified as secular oratorios; in Handel's England the term secular oratorio was not used; secular oratorios by Bruch ...)
- found: New Harvard dict. of mus. (Oratorio: in the latter half of the 17th century, oratorios ... were produced in other Italian cities ... and trends towards secularization became evident ... The stories often involved the lives of the saints and sometimes had a distinctly erotic quality. Schumann's Die Paradis und die Peri ... is secular)
LC Classification
- M1530-M1610
General Notes
- This heading is assigned to oratorios with secular texts. Oratorios with sacred texts are assigned the heading [Oratorios.]
Example Notes
- Note under [Oratorios]
Change Notes
- 2009-04-30: new

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