Cantata and Vocal

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Cantata noun - A musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text.

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Vocal and cantata are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Vocal" instead a noun "Cantata".

Vocal noun - A short musical composition for the human voice often with instrumental accompaniment.

Usage example: a recording artist who arranges his own vocals

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Cantata and vocal are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cantata" instead a noun "Vocal".

A cantata (literally "sung", derived from the Italian word "cantare") is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements, often involving a choir.

Source: Cantata
Finally, once he'd written enough to make himself rich, he went into semi-retirement: he stopped writing operas entirely, and only composed the occasional cantata or other bit of short vocal music.

Source: Music / Gioachino Rossini
Oratorios are also similar to cantatas, in that cantatas are also large-scale vocal works and occasionally identifiable characters, but they usually do not tell a story (Bach's Coffee Cantata is a notable exception).

Source: Oratorio

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