The entrance of dramatic tendencies into music--Carissimi and the early cantata; Rossi, Cesti, and Legrenzi--A. Scarlatti, the culminating point in cantata-writing in Italy; later developments of the Italian cantata--The German church cantata and its relation to the Lutheran service; cantata-texts of Neumeister and others--Bach in the service of the church; his church cantatas--G. F. Handel; Joseph Haydn; W. A. Mozart--English church music in the eighteenth century; the anthem: Croft, Greene, Boyce, and others--Later history of this motet in England, Italy, and Germany; decadence of the madrigal; the glee, the part-song, the masque and the ode. V. THE CANTATA IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 142 Conflict of tradition and progress--Ludwig van Beethoven: ‘Ruins of Athens,’ ‘Glorious moment’; Andreas Romberg--C. M. von Weber; Franz Schubert; Ludwig Spohr--Mendelssohn: ‘First Walpurgis Night,’ etc.; 95th Psalm; _Lauda Sion_, etc.--Hector Berlioz: ‘Damnation of Faust’--Robert Schumann: ‘Paradise and the Peri’; ‘Pilgrimage of the Rose’; Miscellany--Ferdinand Hiller; Niels W. Gade: ‘Crusaders,’ ‘Erl-King’s Daughter,’ ‘Christmas Eve,’ ‘Comala,’ etc.--Félicien David: ‘The Desert’; Minor cantata writers in Germany and England: Benedict, Costa, Macfarren, Smart, Bennett--Anglican ritual-music and the German evangelical motet in the nineteenth century; the part-song. VI. THE MODERN CANTATA 189 Wagner: ‘The Love Feast of the Apostles’; Liszt: ‘The Bells of Strassburg,’ ‘Prometheus’--Brahms: ‘Song of Triumph,’ ‘Song of Destiny’--Max Bruch: ‘Frithjof,’ ‘Fair Ellen,’ ‘The Cross of Fire,’ ‘The Lay of the Bell,’ etc.--Rheinberger; Dvořák; Hofmann; Goetz--Grieg; Gounod; Sullivan: ‘The Golden Legend’; Barnby’s Gaul; Stainer; Cowen--Parry; Mackenzie; Stanford--Elgar: ‘King Olaf’; ‘Caractacus’; ‘The Black Knight’-- Coleridge-Taylor: ‘Hiawatha’ cycle--Dudley Buck: ‘The Golden Legend’; ‘The Light of Asia’; Horatio Parker and other cantata writers in the United States. PART III. THE ORATORIO AND THE MASS VII. Early and Classical Oratorios 223