- 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. - Performance or rendering of such a composition.
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