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A Christmas cantata or Nativity cantata is a cantata, music for voice or voices in several movements, for Christmas. The importance of the feast inspired many composers to write cantatas for the occasion, some designed to be performed in church services, others for concert or secular celebration. The Christmas story, telling of music of the angels and suggesting music of the shepherds and cradle song, invited musical treatment. The term is called Weihnachtskantate in German, Cantate de Noël in French. Christmas cantatas have been written on texts in several other languages, such as Czech, Italian, Romanian, and Spanish. Christmas cantata can also mean the performance of the music. Many choirs have a tradition of an annual Christmas cantata. ==Theme== Different from Christmas oratorios, which present the Christmas story, Christmas cantatas deal with aspects of it. Bach's ''Christmas Oratorio'', written for the season 1734/1735 touches many of these themes. It consists of six parts, each part is a complete work and composed for the church service of a specific feast day. Bach structured the report from the Gospels which connects the parts to a whole, as told by the Evangelist, in six topics. In Parts I to IV he followed the Gospel of Luke (), in Parts V and VI the Gospel of Matthew (). In some instances he deviated from the prescribed readings, rather continuing the tradition of older works by Heinrich Schütz and others.〔Blankenburg: ''Das Weihnachtsoratorium von Johann Sebastian Bach''. 2003, S. 34–35.〕 *Part I for Christmas Day (25 December): Nativity of Jesus *Part II for the Second Day of Christmas (26 December): Annunciation to the shepherds, Glory to God, peace on earth *Part III for the Third Day of Christmas (27 December): Adoration of the shepherds *Part IV for New Year's Day (1 January; Naming of Jesus *Part V for the first Sunday after New Year's Day: Biblical Magi *Part VI for Epiphany (6 January): Adoration of the Magi These themes appear also in cantatas of later composers. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Christmas cantata」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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