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n. A musical composition for voices and orchestra, telling a sacred story without costumes, scenery, or dramatic action.

n. A musical composition on a religious theme; similar to opera but with no costume, scenery or acting.

n. A more or less dramatic text or poem, founded on some Scripture nerrative, or great divine event, elaborately set to music, in recitative, arias, grand choruses, etc., to be sung with an orchestral accompaniment, but without action, scenery, or costume, although the oratorio grew out of the Mysteries and the Miracle and Passion plays, which were acted.

n. Performance or rendering of such a composition.

n. A place of worship; a chapel; an oratory.

n. A form of extended musical composition, more or less dramatic in character, based upon a religious (or occasionally a heroic) theme, and intended to be performed without dramatic action and scenery.

n. The words or text of an oratorio; an oratorio libretto.

n. a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text

"These "sacred actions" or plays were not performed in the church itself, but in an adjoining chamber, called in Italian "oratorio," an oratory, and the title has since then adhered to this species of sacred work."

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