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oratorio

nounCommon GRE wordMore O words

a large-scale musical composition for orchestra and voices on a sacred or serious theme, performed without costumes or staging

In a sentence

Handel's Messiah remains the most performed oratorio in the Western choral tradition.

Synonyms
cantatacompositionchoral work
Antonyms

None listed.

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