cantata

English Thesaurus

1. a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text (noun.communication)

hypernym	:	classical, classical music, serious music,
definition	:	traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste (noun.communication)

instance hyponym	:	messiah,
definition	:	an oratorio composed by Handel in 1742 (noun.communication)