{"id":340,"date":"2021-09-23T17:06:10","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T17:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/?p=340"},"modified":"2021-09-23T17:06:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T17:06:10","slug":"differences-between-oratorio-opera-musical-and-libretto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/2021\/09\/23\/differences-between-oratorio-opera-musical-and-libretto\/","title":{"rendered":"Differences between oratorio, opera, musical, and libretto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oratorio is a large-scale musical composition on a sacred or semisacred subject for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra. It is usually based on scripture. Opera is defined as a dramatic work in one or more acts, that is set to music for singers and instrumentalists. A musical is a play or movie that has singing and dancing as an essential part. A libretto is a text of an opera or other very long vocal work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oratorio is a large-scale musical composition on a sacred or semisacred subject for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra. It is usually based on scripture. Opera is defined as a dramatic work in one or more acts, that is set to music for singers and instrumentalists. A musical is a play or movie that has singing&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/2021\/09\/23\/differences-between-oratorio-opera-musical-and-libretto\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Differences between oratorio, opera, musical, and libretto<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9197405,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9197405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}