Chapter V: Part III: The Oratorio and the Mass

VII. Early and Classical Oratorios 223

Origin of oratorio in the sacred drama of
Italy--Cavalieri: ‘The Representation of Soul and
Body’--Carissimi: ‘Jephthah’--Scarlatti; Stradella;
other early oratorio writers--Development of oratorio
in Germany; Passion-music and its development; Schütz:
‘The Seven Last Words of Christ’; ‘The Passion
Oratorio’; ‘The Resurrection’--J. S. Bach: ‘Christmas
Oratorio’; ‘Passion according to St. Matthew’; Graun:
‘The Death of Jesus’; other writers of Passion-music--
Handel and the oratorio; ‘The Messiah’--‘Israel in
Egypt’; ‘Judas Maccabæus’; ‘Samson,’ etc.--Haydn: ‘The
Creation’; ‘The Seasons.‘

VIII. THE ORATORIO FROM BEETHOVEN TO BRAHMS 264

Beethoven: ‘The Mount of Olives’; Spohr: ‘The Last
Judgment’ and ‘Calvary’--Mendelssohn: ‘St. Paul’--‘Elijah’
and ‘Hymn of Praise’--Liszt: ‘St. Elizabeth’ and
‘Christus’--Oratorio in England; Sterndale Bennett:
‘The Woman of Samaria’; Costa’s ‘Eli’--Oratorio in
France; Lesueur; Berlioz’s _L’enfance du Christ_--Gounod:
‘The Redemption’; _Mors et Vita_.

IX. THE MODERN ORATORIO 292

Brahms: ‘German Requiem’; Dvořák: ‘St. Ludmila’--César
Franck: ‘The Beatitudes’;--Tinel: ‘Franciscus’; Benoît:
‘Lucifer’--Saint-Saëns: ‘Christmas Oratorio’; ‘The
Deluge’; Massenet: _Ève_; _Marie Madeleine_; Dubois:
‘Paradise Lost’--Oratorio in England; Mackenzie: ‘The
Rose of Sharon’; ‘Bethlehem’; Parry: ‘Judith’; ‘Job’;
‘King Saul’--Stanford: ‘The Three Holy Children’; ‘Eden’;
Sullivan: ‘The Prodigal Son’; ‘The Light of the World’;
Cowen--Oratorio in America; Paine: ‘St. Peter’; Horatio
Parker: _Hora Novissima_; ‘The Legend of St. Christopher.’

X. THE MODERN MASS 318

The adaptation of liturgical forms to extra-liturgical
purposes; Mass; Requiem Mass--Stabat Mater; Magnificat;
Te Deum--Musical masses and the Roman service--Bach:
‘B minor Mass’--Bach‘s ‘Magnificat in D’; Pergolesi‘s
_Stabat Mater_; Handel‘s Te Deums; Graun‘s ‘Prague _Te
Deum_’; Haydn’s church music--Mozart: the _Requiem_ and
other masses--Cherubini: _Requiem_ and other masses;
Schubert’s masses--Beethoven: _Missa Solemnis_; Weber’s
masses--Berlioz: _Requiem_; _Te Deum_; Rossini’s _Stabat
Mater_; Liszt: ‘Graner Mass’ and ‘Hungarian Coronation
Mass’--Gounod: ‘St. Cecilia Mass’ and other masses;
Dvořák: _Requiem_ and _Stabat Mater_; Verdi: ‘The Manzoni
_Requiem_’--The masses of Rheinberger, Henschel and
others.