ORATORIO

a sacred subject put to » music, so called because musical compos i-, tions of this kind were first i: in en 2 oratorio or small mi ion-hall in Rome in e the 16th century. Mandel, ee and. Mendel ohn have — finest $ oratorios, Of Handel's or a torics the p — Srp = ‘Ore Me iah” om yr “ Ieracl in Eg x nm an P these is Mendel ohn's ~ Elijah,” and at p a lower level, Haydn's ** Creation.” >| [s. 229]