Compositions with The Bible as librettist
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Creators | Key | Opus | Composed | Instrumentation | Period/style | Type | Listen | Code |
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| Fünf Canons | Anton Webern, composer The Bible, librettist |
Op.16 | 1923 | voice, clarinet and bass clarinet | Early 20th century | Canons |  |
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| This is the Record of John | Peter Dyson, composer The Bible, librettist |
2004 | mixed chorus and saxophone | Modern | Sacred choruses |  |
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| Sulamith (The Song of Songs) | Leopold Damrosch, composer The Bible, librettist |
soprano, tenor, mixed chorus and orchestra | Romantic | Sacred cantatas | |
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| Mount Sinai (The Ten Commandments) | Sigismund Neukomm, composer The Bible, librettist |
soprano, alto, tenor, bass, mixed chorus and orchestra | Romantic | Sacred oratorios | |
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| A Song of Thanksgiving | Frederic Hymen Cowen, composer The Bible, librettist |
1888 | mixed chorus and orchestra | Romantic | Songs | |
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| Lift Up Your Hearts (A Sacred Symphony) | Walford Davies, composer The Bible, librettist |
F major | Op.20 | baritone, 2 mixed chorus and orchestra | Romantic | Symphonies, Sacred choruses | |
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| The Temple (An Oratorio) | Walford Davies, composer The Bible, librettist |
Op.14 | soprano, tenor, baritone, mixed chorus, organ and orchestra | Early 20th century | Sacred oratorios | |
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| When it was Yet Dark (Easter Anthem) | Raymond Huntington Woodman, composer The Bible, librettist Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, librettist |
tenor, bass, mixed chorus and organ | Romantic | Anthems | |
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| Christ, the Victor (Cantata for Eastertide and Ascension) | Dudley Buck, composer The Bible, librettist Harriet Auber, librettist Bourne Hall Draper, librettist John Milton, librettist |
soprano, alto, tenor, bass, mixed chorus and organ | Romantic | Sacred cantatas | |
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| Fear Not Ye, O Israel! (Offertory) | Dudley Buck, composer The Bible, librettist |
voice and piano voice and organ |
Romantic | Offertories | |
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| Trostgesang (Kantate zur Passionszeit) | Tamás Beischer-Matyó, composer The Bible, librettist |
2013 | soprano, mezzosoprano, alto, baritone, mixed chorus and orchestra voice, mixed chorus and orchestra |
Modern | Sacred cantatas | |
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| Christ Triumphant (A Cantata for Easter-tide, for Soli, Chorus, and Organ) | Henry Clough-Leighter, composer The Bible, librettist |
Op.35 | soprano, alto, tenor, bass, mixed chorus and organ | Romantic | Sacred cantatas | |
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| 3 Choral Responses | Amy Marcy Beach, composer The Bible, librettist |
Op.8 | mixed chorus and organ | Romantic | Responsories | |
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| The Ancient of Days (A church cantata for soli, chorus, string-orchestra and organ) | Charles Whitney Coombs, composer The Bible, librettist |
soprano, mezzosoprano, alto, tenor, bass, mixed chorus and orchestra | Romantic | Sacred cantatas | |
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| The Vision of St. John (A cantata for mixed voices, full orchestra and organ) | Charles Whitney Coombs, composer The Bible, librettist |
soprano, alto, tenor, mixed chorus and orchestra | Romantic | Sacred cantatas | |
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| O Sing unto the Lord a New Song (Psalm XCVIII) | Alfred Herbert Brewer, composer The Bible, librettist |
soprano, bass, mixed chorus and orchestra | Romantic | Psalms | |
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| Penitential Psalms (Psalm No.6) | Kemble Stout, composer The Bible, librettist |
D minor | 1950 | mixed chorus and strings | Modern | Psalms | |
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| Yahweh, God of Star-Armies | James F. McGrath, composer The Bible, librettist |
2016 | voice, trumpet and piano | Modern | Sacred songs | |
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| A Midnight Service for New Year's Eve | Dudley Buck, composer The Bible, librettist |
soprano, baritone, mixed chorus and organ | Romantic | Services | |
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| Christ Our Passover (Easter Anthem) | Dudley Buck, composer The Bible, librettist |
C major | Op.29 | mixed chorus and organ | Romantic | Anthems | |
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| Easter Anthem (Christ Our Passover) | Dudley Buck, composer The Bible, librettist |
B flat major | Op.46 | mixed chorus and organ | Romantic | Anthems | |
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| Christmas Anthem (O Zion that tellest good tidings) | Dudley Buck, composer The Bible, librettist |
Op.48 | mixed chorus and organ | Romantic | Anthems | |
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| Es ist nicht fein (Es ist nicht fein, dass man den Kindern ihr Brot nehme) | Melchior Franck, composer The Bible, librettist |
1623 | 4 voices mixed chorus |
Renaissance | Sacred songs | |
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| Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in B-flat major | Healey Willan, composer The Bible, librettist |
B flat major | 1906 | mixed chorus and organ | Romantic | Magnificats, Canticles | |
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| Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in E-flat major | Healey Willan, composer The Bible, librettist |
E flat major | mixed chorus and organ | Romantic | Magnificats, Canticles | |
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| O Be Joyful in the Lord | Everett Titcomb, composer The Bible, librettist |
C major | mixed chorus | Early 20th century | Hymns | |
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| Sentite de Domino | Carlotta Ferrari, composer The Bible, librettist |
2019 | mixed chorus and organ female chorus and organ male chorus and organ |
Modern | Sacred choruses | |
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| Greater Love hath no Man | William Wolstenholme, composer The Bible, librettist |
D major | 2 sopranos, alto and piano 2 sopranos, alto and organ |
Early 20th century | Anthems | |
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| Sevenfold Amen | John Stainer, composer The Bible, librettist |
mixed chorus | Romantic | Sacred choruses | |
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| Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis | John Ebenezer West, composer The Bible, librettist |
G major | childrens chorus and organ | Romantic | Magnificats, Canticles | |
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| The Night is Far Spent (Short anthem for Advent) | Myles Birket Foster, composer The Bible, librettist |
C major | mixed chorus and organ | Romantic | Anthems | |
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| The Way of Penitence (A Cantata for Lent or General Use for Tenor and Baritone Soli, Quartet and Chorus, with Organ Accompaniment) | Raymond Huntington Woodman, composer The Bible, librettist |
tenor, baritone, mixed chorus and organ | Romantic | Sacred cantatas | |
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| Moses and Aaron (Opera-Oratorio in Thrice 7 Letters) | Mark Alburger, composer The Bible, librettist |
Op.63 | 1998 | voices and orchestra | Modern | Operas, Sacred oratorios | |
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| Babe Ruth ((Rhapsodi Israeli) Operetta-Oratorietta for Voices and Orchestra) | Mark Alburger, composer The Bible, librettist |
Op.66 | 1998 | voices, mixed chorus and orchestra | Modern | Operettas, Secular oratorios | |
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| Saul! Saul! (Opera-Oratorio for Voices and Orchestra) | Mark Alburger, composer The Bible, librettist Charles Jennens, librettist |
Op.67 | 1998 | voices and orchestra | Modern | Operas, Secular oratorios | |
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| Elijah Rock ((I-II Kings) Opera-Oratorio for Voices and Instruments) | Mark Alburger, composer The Bible, librettist |
Op.71 | 1998 | voices and orchestra | Modern | Secular oratorios | |
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| King David (Opera-Oratorio for Voices and Orchestra) | Mark Alburger, composer The Bible, librettist |
Op.69 | 1998 | voices and orchestra | Modern | Operas, Secular oratorios | |
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| Solomon (Opera-Oratorio for Voices and Orchestra) | Mark Alburger, composer The Bible, librettist |
Op.70 | 1998 | voices and orchestra | Modern | Operas, Secular oratorios | |
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| Ruth (ein bibl. Idyll nach Worten d. heiligen Schrift) | Otto Goldschmidt, composer The Bible, librettist |
Op.20 | Romantic | |
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| A Sermon, a Narrative and a Prayer | Igor Stravinsky, composer The Bible, librettist Thomas Dekker, librettist |
K095 | 1960 | narrator, alto, tenor, mixed chorus and orchestra | Modern | Sacred cantatas | |
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