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HOASM: Spiritual Concerto and Church Cantata |
 | | Unlike the conservative motet the chorale concertato was written in a progressive style, clearly manifested in the use of the continuo. |
 | | The various media of the chorale concertato, the many-voiced, the few-voiced, and the monodic, were no longer kept apart but were combined in large multipartite compositions in which solo, choral, and instrumental sections alternated. |
 | | The chorale concertato per omnes versus, that is with a varied setting for each stanza, can actually be called a cantata although we find as yet only very sporadically the distinguishing feature of the late baroque cantata, namely a freely inserted poetic passage that interrupts the liturgical text by moralizing reflections. |
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