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This second volume of Meyerbeer's non-operatic work is devoted to his secular choral writing for male voices, solo songs with chorus, and later songs with instrumental obbligato and local colour. Choral writing-so much part of the operatic tradition, also germane to religious music, and integral to the public music of celebration-is fundamental to the next genre Meyerbeer wrote for, the part-song, a typical German tradition. Meyerbeer's part-songs for male chorus, most of which were provided...

Vocal music --- Music --- History and criticism. --- Meyerbeer, Giacomo, --- Beer, Jakob Liebmann Meyer