Cantata
Cantata noun - A musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text.
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Stanza
Stanza noun - A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem.
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- Johann Sebastian Bach does this in the third stanza of the cantata Christ lag in Todes Banden (BWV 4), in which the music stops on the word "nicht" (nothing remains) before continuing.
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