Origin of oratorio in the sacred drama of Italy--Cavalieri: ‘The Representation of Soul and Body’--Carissimi: ‘Jephthah’--Scarlatti; Stradella; other early oratorio writers--Development of oratorio in Germany; Passion-music and its development; Schütz: ‘The Seven Last Words of Christ’; ‘The Passion Oratorio’; ‘The Resurrection’--J. S. Bach: ‘Christmas Oratorio’; ‘Passion according to St. Matthew’; Graun: ‘The Death of Jesus’; other writers of Passion-music-- Handel and the oratorio; ‘The Messiah’--‘Israel in Egypt’; ‘Judas Maccabæus’; ‘Samson,’ etc.--Haydn: ‘The Creation’; ‘The Seasons.‘ VIII. THE ORATORIO FROM BEETHOVEN TO BRAHMS 264 Beethoven: ‘The Mount of Olives’; Spohr: ‘The Last Judgment’ and ‘Calvary’--Mendelssohn: ‘St. Paul’--‘Elijah’ and ‘Hymn of Praise’--Liszt: ‘St. Elizabeth’ and ‘Christus’--Oratorio in England; Sterndale Bennett: ‘The Woman of Samaria’; Costa’s ‘Eli’--Oratorio in France; Lesueur; Berlioz’s _L’enfance du Christ_--Gounod: ‘The Redemption’; _Mors et Vita_. IX. THE MODERN ORATORIO 292 Brahms: ‘German Requiem’; Dvořák: ‘St. Ludmila’--César Franck: ‘The Beatitudes’;--Tinel: ‘Franciscus’; Benoît: ‘Lucifer’--Saint-Saëns: ‘Christmas Oratorio’; ‘The Deluge’; Massenet: _Ève_; _Marie Madeleine_; Dubois: ‘Paradise Lost’--Oratorio in England; Mackenzie: ‘The Rose of Sharon’; ‘Bethlehem’; Parry: ‘Judith’; ‘Job’; ‘King Saul’--Stanford: ‘The Three Holy Children’; ‘Eden’; Sullivan: ‘The Prodigal Son’; ‘The Light of the World’; Cowen--Oratorio in America; Paine: ‘St. Peter’; Horatio Parker: _Hora Novissima_; ‘The Legend of St. Christopher.’ X. THE MODERN MASS 318 The adaptation of liturgical forms to extra-liturgical purposes; Mass; Requiem Mass--Stabat Mater; Magnificat; Te Deum--Musical masses and the Roman service--Bach: ‘B minor Mass’--Bach‘s ‘Magnificat in D’; Pergolesi‘s _Stabat Mater_; Handel‘s Te Deums; Graun‘s ‘Prague _Te Deum_’; Haydn’s church music--Mozart: the _Requiem_ and other masses--Cherubini: _Requiem_ and other masses; Schubert’s masses--Beethoven: _Missa Solemnis_; Weber’s masses--Berlioz: _Requiem_; _Te Deum_; Rossini’s _Stabat Mater_; Liszt: ‘Graner Mass’ and ‘Hungarian Coronation Mass’--Gounod: ‘St. Cecilia Mass’ and other masses; Dvořák: _Requiem_ and _Stabat Mater_; Verdi: ‘The Manzoni _Requiem_’--The masses of Rheinberger, Henschel and others. PART IV. MODERN CHORAL MUSIC