oratorio has definitions from the fields of music,fine art
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[ noun ] (music,fine art) a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text

Synonyms

cantata

Used in print

(Irving Fineman, Woman of Valor: The Life of Henrietta...)

And she wrote the libretto for an oratorio on the subject of Judas_Maccabeus performed at the Hanukkah festival which came in December .

Related terms

classical_music

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