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3	A cantata (literally "sung", feminine past participle of the Italian verb ''cantare'', "to sing") is a vocal composition (solo or chorale) with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements.
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5	The Cantata originated from the single-voice madrigals of the 17th century, and gradually evolved into the mini-oratorio of the 19th century. Most cantatas of the 18th and 19th centuries were religious in nature, with a few being secular in nature.
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7	The Lutheran Church was one of the greatest consumers of cantatas, necessitating the composition of large numbers of them for each church service of the year (Bach wrote most of his cantatas for such church services). The nobility and other people of great power also commissioned cantatas to be composed for special events, most frequently birthdays.
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9	Cantatas can be found today, either modernized or conforming to ClassicalMusic standards, still referencing religion or secular, in original soundtracks. Or provide inspiration for modern musicians.
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11	Compare with the {{Oratorio}}, a string of cantatas that usually present an identifiable plot and characters. Classical cantatas are not known for this feature, though more modern renditions might include such elements.
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13	Contrast with ACappella, sung but no instrumental accompaniment.
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15	Contrast {{Opera}}, much lengthier than both the {{Oratorio}} and the Cantata and meant to be performed on stage, with costumes and all; OneWomanWail; and OminousLatinChanting. For that matter, ballads are vocal compositions in verse and were originally written to accompany dances.
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17	The term cantata can be found in the names of fictional works and characters, so make sure not to [[JustForFun/IthoughtItMeant confuse]] them with the actual musical pieces.
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21	!! Examples:
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23	[[AC: Anime & Manga]]
24	* ''Literature/AriaTheScarletAmmo'': PlayedForLaughs in episode 6, when after Kinji opens a drawer full of women's underwear, Carl Orff ''Music/CarminaBurana'' plays in all of its glory. Made even more hilarious by Kinji's DeadpanSnarker response.
25	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1U-akwYyDA "Cantata Orbis"]], the closing soundtrack of ''Anime/SpaceRunawayIdeon''. Its lyrics are extremely ironic, talking about the glorification of life and God, all the while, in the end, [[spoiler: the characters are dead]].
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27	[[AC: Films -- Live-Action]]
28	* ''Film/AlexanderNevsky'' features an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGqVogrLEE4 eponymous cantata]] as part of its soundtrack; it was composed by Music/SergeiProkofiev. Its seventh movement is the subject of both a TriumphantReprise and a RepriseMedley.
29	* ''Film/{{Amadeus}}'': Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart and [[BasedOnAGreatBigLie his rival]] Antonio Salieri collaborate to compose a four-minute cantata in 1785.
30	* ''Film/TheManWhoKnewTooMuch'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goqJgPyqKJE "Storm Clouds Cantata"]] plays, InUniverse, during the climax of the movie. It echoes the happenings of the plot and is used as a MusicalTrigger. Many fans thought it was a pre-existent ClassicalMusic piece; in reality, it's an original soundtrack composed by Music/ArthurBenjamin.
31	* ''Film/PhantomOfTheParadise'': Aspiring singer and songwriter Winslow composes and performs InUniverse [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2JARLdVv5A "Faust"]], a rock cantata inspired by the [[Myth/{{Faust}} eponymous myth]]. Without his permission, Winslow's producers decide to revamp it into SurfRock, and thus, "Upholstery" is born.
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33	[[AC: Literature]]
34	* ''Literature/{{Ivanhoe}}'' is adapted into an eponymous, dramatic cantata by Music/VictorSieg. It earned him a Prix de Rome.
35	* ''Literature/ThePentagonWar'': While waiting in line for the Sirius/Human-Centauri hyper hole, James Carter plays the [[http://www.rogermwilcox.com/Pentagon/Wir%20Eilen.mid second movement]] of Bach's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kpi_OtIgco "Jesu der du meine seele"]] (BWV 78)[[labelnote: Translation]]Jesus, Who Hast Wrested My Soul[[/labelnote]] cantata, to pass the time.
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37	[[AC: Music]]
38	* Creator/AnnaRussell[='=]s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbI_jiQ_T9I "Wir gehen in den Automaten"]]. It's about ordering bacon at the Automat. A hilarious yet AffectionateParody.
39	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TomusfjpZHs "Helgoland"]] (WAB 71) is a secular, patriotic cantata for male choir and orchestra, composed by Music/AntonBruckner.
40	* Music/BenjaminBritten:
41	** His [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsZP-IH8XbM "Rejoice in the Lamb"]] cantata freely uses and shifts [[UncommonTime nonconventional tempos]].
42	** In the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUBWFvQaNuQ "St. Nicholas"]] cantata, the titular character is served the pickled flesh of three boys. He doesn't take much to realize the origin of his meat; he still eats it. A veritable [[IAmAHumanitarian humanitarian]].
43	* Music/CarlOrff's ''Music/CarminaBurana'' cantata is [[AdaptationDistillation very liberally based]] on a collection of eponymous Medieval poems. Its opening and closing cantus [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4U9QJ1nzrg "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi]] has become a StandardSnippet for {{Epic Movie}}s, particularly, the "StandardSnippet/OFortuna" movement.[[labelnote: Translations]]Respectively, "Songs of Beuern" and "Fortuna, Empress of the World"[[/labelnote]]
44	* Music/DeepPurple includes Music/JohannSebastianBach's "Heart and mouth and deed and life" cantata as part of the intro of "You Fool No One/The Mule", an elaborate organ solo that quickly deranges into a musical mess.
45	* Music/DonaldMcCullough's ominous, heavy [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qaq7La-m7w "Holocaust Cantata"]] is based on original music sung by incarcerated inmates in [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust Holocaust concentration camps]].
46	** In one of the movements, "The Train," the male soloist sings a last farewell to his love as she is being taken to a concentration camp.
47	* Music/FelixMendelssohn's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festgesang "Festgesang"]] cantata. It's also called the Gutenberg cantata because it celebrates Gutenberg's genius at inventing printing with movable type. He thought [[ItWillNeverCatchOn it'd never catch on]], but it did (become a respected classic music piece). It even gets used in [[EveryoneIsChristianAtChristmas religious carols for Christmas]]!
48	* Superstitious Music/GustavMahler's symphonic cantata [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npy4gjZ81F0 "Das Lied von der Erde"]][[labelnote: Translation]]The Song of the Earth[[/labelnote]], which he tried to number as his ninth symphony so as to not die leaving nine symphonic compositions but ten. A symphonic cantata is accompanied by a greater range of instruments; normal cantatas are classified as chamber music (only a few instruments).
49	* Some cantatas are [[HymnToMusic Hymns to Music]], particularly if they are about St. Cecilia, patron saint of music.
50	** Britten's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViSQRzLk68s "Hymn to St. Cecilia"]].
51	** Händel's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgeaYf38h9Y "Alexander's Feast"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX8DOIu9k0s "A Song for St. Cecilia's Day"]]; both based on Dryden's poems.
52	** Purcell's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vPSTYlX51Q "Hail! Bright Cecilia"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFE9UpRaGkM "Welcome to all the Pleasures"]].
53	* Giacomo Carissimi's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HAO7d3ZRNg "Lamento della Regina Maria Stuarda"]] [[labelnote: Translation]]Queen Mary Stuart's Lament[[/labelnote]] is inspired by UsefulNotes/MaryOfScotland[='=]s life. He depicts her as a tragic martyr.
54	* Sir Arthur Sullivan, of the Creator/GilbertAndSullivan duo, created [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqow2JIwzMU "The Golden Legend"]] cantata, based on a poetic work of the same name by Creator/HenryWadsworthLongfellow.
55	* Music/IgorStravinsky[='=]s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6enhkUhaeg "A Sermon, a Narrative and a Prayer"]]. Its last movement is dedicated to the memory of Reverend James [=McLane=].
56	* Music/JohannSebastianBach dominates the cantata composition scene with his 200+ religious ({{anvillicious}} and making use of Lutheran hymns and Bible versicles) and secular cantatas (often about Myth/ClassicalMythology). His cantatas are generally recognized as the finest examples of the genre. Though, to be fair, several of his religious cantatas are [[DolledUpInstallment dolled-up installments]] of his secular ones. The dude had a bad case of {{enforced}} SelfPlagiarism. Also, most of the lyrics of his cantatas were written by other people, he's just the musical composer. Anyway, we are digressing; Bach's cantatas often begin with {{Opening Chorus}}es or Sinfonias (completely instrumental parts). Examples include:
57	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfkq-S7Vis8 "Beloved God, When Will I Die?"]] (BWV 8). It's about wondering when one will die, so it appropriately features a TickTockTune to depict the passing of time.
58	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrq626ro5VU "Christ Lay in the Snares of Death"]] (BWV 4). Its third stanza features a StopAndGo in the word "nicht" (nothing remains) and eleven, sharp violin chords for a PsychoStrings effect.
59	** His [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDf6pHmjwH0 "Come, Sweet Death"]] (BWV 161) cantata purportedly [[InvokedTrope invokes]] the trope ObiWanMoment.
60	** The BattleOfTheBands-type [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zBLs8QBFQ "The Contest Between Phoebus and Pan"]] (BWV 201) cantata. During Midas's aria, the violins do [[MusicalGag donkey imitations]], foreshadowing Midas's KarmicTransformation.
61	** The sixth and tenth movements of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h97JE4--p84 "Heart and mouth and deed and life"]](BWV 147)[[note]]also known as "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"[[/note]] cantata appear quite a lot in the SmallReferencePools most creators use. In such cases, it's usual for the tempo to be slower, the original German lyrics to never appear, and the melody to be an arrangement of the original.[[note]]The music jargon for when a piece is adapted for a different set of voices or instruments than those intended for the composer[[/note]]
62	** The secular [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNnGAzHTliU "Hercules at the Crossroads"]] (BWV 213) cantata features an AnsweringEcho in one of its arias.
63	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNgQ8tK08EU "I Had Much Grief"]] (BWV 21), famous for its [[ExaggeratedTrope abundant]] {{Song Style Shift}}s, which render it one of Bach's highest quality pieces.
64	** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amuqUQs0aFg "Lord, do not pass judgment on Your servant"]] (BWV 105), the strings [[HeartbeatSoundtrack evoke a heart beating]] rapidly from anxiety and fear which echo the lyrics. The cantata is about a sinner being tormented by his own conscience.
65	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG3wF5yNUFM "Lord Jesus Christ, O highest good"]] (BWV 113). Its seventh movement is infamous for its [[ExaggeratedTrope abuse]] of MelismaticVocals to the point of being nearly unperformable.
66	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT3RlTfuTdk "Lord Jesus Christ, true Man and God"]] (BWV 127), famed due to its {{Subdued Section}}s. This piece pioners loud-soft intervals by one century.
67	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn4zEYWjejA "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God"]] (BWV 80) [[LyricalColdOpen starts right away with the vocals]] instead of the traditional instrumental beginning.
68	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFlTRAhCav8 "Rejoice, You Hearts"]], a [[LyricalDissonance lyrically disonant]] celebration of Jesus' resurrection. Its fourth and fifth movements feature a CounterpointDuet in which each voice sings oxymoronic lyrics in regard to the other. The voices are, after all, {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s of Fear and Hope.
69	** The opening chorus of the secular cantata [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hASwusETOF8 "Resound, ye drums! Ring out, ye trumpets!"]] (BWV 24) begins with an [[DramaticTimpani emphatic passage for solo timpani]], occasionally punctuated by the ''basso continuo'' instruments. It carried over to Bach's "Christmas Oratorio".
70	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sj-NKqR0tw "Wake Up, the Voice Calls to us"]] (BWV 140). As it was customary for Lutheran liturgical music of the Baroque era, it features SopranoAndGravel dialogues between Jesus (sung by a bass) and the Soul (sung by a soprano) in a CallAndResponseSong act.
71	** "Music/WasMirBehagtIstNurDieMuntreJagd" (BWV 208)[[labelnote: Translation]]The Lively Hunt is All my Heart's Desire[[/labelnote]], the Hunting Cantata. If there's a wedding and they aren't playing LohengrinAndMendelssohn, then it's this cantata the musical accompaniment. Additionally, of all of his cantatas, Bach [[RecycledSoundtrack reused]] this one the most (in other works of his). Ironically, it was composed for TheGrandHunt exploits of Duke Christian of Saxe-Weissenfels.
72	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZQ3pPLGwvY "Weeping, Lamenting, Worrying, Fearing"]] (BWV 12) boasts a four-bar ostinato bass-line pattern (aka, a FallingBass).
73	** Notably {{averted}} in his "Music/SchweigtStillePlaudertNicht" cantata, a piece popularly known as the "Coffee Cantata". However, it's not a cantata but a comic operetta -- lengthier than a cantata but shorter than an actual opera. Also, it begins with a recitative.
74	* Music/KurtWeill's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQZUEOG14vQ "The Berlin Requiem"]] is a morbid, secular cantata about [[AMillionIsAStatistic faceless]] war casualties and victims of violent crimes. Appropiate for a piece [[TitleRequiem titled Requiem]]. The lyrics come from Creator/BertoltBrecht's poems.
75	* Music/LesLuthiers[='=]s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trQy3IUk-Ek piece]] "Cantata del Adelantado Don Rodrigo Díaz de Carreras, de sus hazañas en tierras de Indias, de los singulares acontecimientos en que se vio envuelto, y de cómo se desenvolvió"[[labelnote: Translation]]Precocious Don Rodrigo Díaz de Carreras's Cantata, about his feats in the land of the Indies, about the unique events in which he got involved, and about the ways in which he untangled himself from them[[/labelnote]]. It has a narrator (non-sung) offering DeadpanSnarker commentary.
76	* Spanish band Music/MagoDeOz's album "Gaia II: La Voz Dormida" [[LongestSongGoesLast ends]] with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHBjlleWOkk "La Cantata del Diablo — Missit me Dominus"]].[[labelnote: Translations]]Respectively, "Gaia II: The Sleeping Voice" and "The Devil's Cantata -- The Lord has sent me"[[/labelnote]] Ironically, the song rants against the Catholic Church.
77	* Music/MarcAntoineCharpentier's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxY2x3SuGbc "Epitaphium Carpentarii"]][[labelnote: Translation]]Charpentier's Epitaph[[/labelnote]] cantata is a pretentious, musicalized TheReasonYouSuckSpeech in which Charpentier's ghost rises from the grave to berate the fans who only love him now he's dead.
78	* Music/MichaelDaugherty's cantata [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAG-uv5UjL8 "Letters from Lincoln"]] is famous for its movement "Letter to Mrs. Bixby" which tells the story of a woman, Lydia Parker Bixby, who lost five sons to the UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar. The letter used for the lyrics has a consoling yet empathetic message, and so does the cantata.
79	* Danish composer Music/NielsGade's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMJvFd1hJvg "Elverskud"]] cantata., with special mention to the "Morning Song" movement.
80	* Music/OverClockedRemix: The two-part "Cantata for Dancing" (comprised of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GRogMz0Q8I "Mors ego sum mortis"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGJs4OEwSHY "Fuga Kefka"]]) is a remix of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6UgxJtHIVY "Dancing Mad"]] from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI''.
81	* Music/PDQBach: Yes, he's related to J. S. Bach and, like him, pursued a career in music. You can call him Parody Bach. Why? Because he loves to use comedic tropes in his musical compositions.
82	** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VTcr1aDC9U "Blaues Gras"]][[labelnote: Translation]]Blue Grass[[/labelnote]] cantata sports literally translated American English idioms to German (the language the piece is sung in). Who knew classical singers could pull off PoirotSpeak so well?
83	** His cantata [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzx5R6fZ_VE "Iphigenia in Brooklyn"]] (S. 53162)[[note]]In Greek mythology, Iphigenia is killed as a human sacrifice for the offended goddess Artemis[[/note]] has lots of FunWithHomophones and [[EverythingIsAnInstrument unusual instruments]] such as wine bottles. Also, the second movement ends with a harpsichord flourish and is a veritable EndingFatigue. Nothing out of the ordinary with Parody Bach.
84	** One of his choral works, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip_HdHHC_SY "Knock, Knock"]], is essentially made up of [[KnockKnockJoke knock, knock]] and [[LightBulbJoke lightbulb]] jokes in the form of cantatas. All in all, a {{Feghoot}}.
85	---> Ida who?\
86	Ida-ream of Jeannie with the light brown hair
87	* Music/SergeiProkofiev's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xMD8Epbhpk "Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution"]] celebrates the UsefulNotes/RedOctober and, in its sixth movement, displays a plethora of [[EverythingIsAnInstrument out-of-the-norm instruments]] such as accordions, large brass bells, a siren, a megaphone, cannons, and a machine gun.
88	* Within Music/SymphonyX's album "V-The New Mythology Suite", there are [[RockMeAmadeus interspersed excerpts]] of Bach's cantata [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjuuJHutQ8g "Ich habe meine Zuversicht"]] (BWV 188).[[labelnote: Translation]]I have (placed) my confidence[[/labelnote]]
89	* Music/YukiKajiura created her iconic Kajiurago (an often [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign nonsensical mix]] of Spanish, Italian, and Latin) with the express purpose of using it in her cantatas. Although, occasionally, she writes her lyrics in actual languages (Japanese and English). In any case, her vocal compositions feature {{Ominous Latin Chanting}}s and [[OneWomanWail One-Woman Wails]]. The instrumental accompaniment ranges from [[ClassicalMusic classical]] to modernized ([[JapanesePopMusic Anison]] and rock). Examples include:
90	%% Examples are alphabetized following the fictional work that originated them, not by the piece's names.
91	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azuxnVHcVQc "The World"]] for ''Anime/DotHackSign''.
92	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foXq4Rw2sZE "Mezame"]] for ''Anime/MyHime''.
93	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqGeT4PiJko "Canta Per Me"]] for ''Anime/{{Noir}}''.
94	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_J3UhPK-Zo "Credens Justitiam"]] for ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''.
95	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og0I6irS5jc "She Has to Overcome Her Fear"]] for ''Literature/SwordArtOnline''.
96	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atc51MxhoAE "A Song of Storm and Fire"]] for ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle''.
97	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ0tY8ZSdqw "My Long, Forgotten, Cloistered Sleep"]] for ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}''.
98	** And those she doesn't compose for any fictional work in particular:
99	*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1qczGHOqAo "Fairyland"]].
100	*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZk1XNY4GxM "Historia"]].
101	*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GdqHJqeVy8 "I Talk to the Rain"]].
102	*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg3oXhtsi3g "Luminous Sword"]].
103	* Music/WendyCarlos's album ''Music/SwitchedOnBach'' can be described as "[[Music/JohannSebastianBach Bach]] meets the synthesizer". It features a pair of Bach's cantatas, namely:
104	** "Sinfonia to Cantata No. 29".
105	** "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring", from "Cantata No. 147.
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107	[[AC: Puppet Shows]]
108	* ''Series/FraggleRock'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqI2Hl5VDa4 "Whoopee Cantata"]], tweaked to include {{Ska}} beats. In the show, is used to welcome back Uncle Matt who, hilariously, hates it.
109	* ''Series/SesameStreetSongsHomeVideo'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zClFjaOV4cU "Old MacDonald Cantata"]] turns "Old [=MacDonald=] Had a Farm" into a makeshift cantata.
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111	[[AC: Theater]]
112	* The choral concert redux of the play ''1600 Pennsylvania Avenue'', "A White House Cantata". It's notable due to its purposeful usage of ActingForTwo. Unfortunately, it was a flop, so it caused quite the disappointment to its creator, Music/LeonardBernstein.
113	* Initially, ''Theatre/JosephAndTheAmazingTechnicolorDreamcoat'' was a fifteen-minute-long cantata.
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115	[[AC: Video Games]]
116	* ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV3wFRy23cY "The Greatest Jubilee"]] cantata is the theme of Jubileus, who is God in female form. It sounds every bit as glorious and euphoric as the situation dictates. It's also of god-like complexity, {{pun}} intended.
117	* ''VideoGame/DantesInferno'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY64p8mgwY4 "Limo Prisoners"]] is a cantata with OminousLatinChanting accompanied by the twirling sounds of what seems to be a single coin. This tracks when Dante is exploring the interior of Charon's boat.
118	* ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'': Its prequel, ''Dissidia Duodecim'' features the AutobotsRockOut [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx3N7PjXzWk "Cantata Mortis"]] in its soundtrack. It's also an OminousLatinChanting.
119	* ''VideoGame/DonPachi'': A modernized, so to speak, example. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWuHfINP5ms "Longhena Cantata"]] is Colonel Longhener/Longhena's theme, played during the boss battle between him and Golden Disaster. It's also one of the video game's {{leitmotif}}s and an OneWomanWail.
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122	!! Fictional works and characters named after the term Cantata:
123	* ''Franchise/BlazBlue'': One of Carl's attacks is Cantata. Fitting, since his attacks are [[ThemeNaming musically-themed]].
124	* Cantata Blast, the leader of the [=SIRENs=], in the fanfic ''Fanfic/SevenDaysInSunnyJune''.
125	* Music/JohannSebastianBach's "The Coffee Cantata" which, as explained above, is [[GenreBusting not a cantata but an operetta]]. It's a story about a [[DrinkBasedCharacterization daughter]] trying to convince her father that [[MustHaveCaffeine coffee is good, or at least innocent]]. It turned UsefulNotes/FrederickTheGreat into a huge fan of Bach.
126	* The "Cantata for Warships in D" installment of ''Fanfic/UndocumentedFeatures''.
127	* The novel ''Literature/CantataInCoralAndIvory''.
128	* Cantata Meiko from ''VideoGame/BraveFrontier''.
129	* Cantata-of-the-depths, the gem god and patron of the Irugu clan, from ''ComicBook/{{Exalted}}''.
130	* Creator/TheCantataPansophical fan group.
131	* Shopkeeper Carmen Cantata from ''VideoGame/ThiefDeadlyShadows''.
132	* Kathy Cantata from ''VideoGame/{{CSI}}''.
133	* Laetabilis Cantata from ''VideoGame/BlazBlueCalamityTrigger''.
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