Category talk:Cantatas

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Christian

On 9 October, User:Marcocapelle added the Category:Christian classical music to this category; this should urgently be reversed. A cursory glance through the items listed here shows that that category is inappropriate. For a start, there's Category:Secular cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach, Academic cantatas (Sibelius), Alexander Nevsky (Prokofiev), Anti-Formalist Rayok at the beginning of the alphabet and The Whale (Tavener), Yellow River Cantata, Zdravitsa at the end; none of them are Christian. Once this has been reversed, several works where Marcocapelle removed Christian music categories need to have them restored. PS: These things really ought to be discussed beforehand at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Classical music where I left this note as well. Further discussion should be conducted here. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 01:04, 9 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Agree. Actually most cantatas were secular until at least the late 17th century, when you look at the early history of the form (and there are an enormous number of cantatas from this period). Antandrus (talk) 03:11, 9 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Agree. This appears to me to be cut-and -dried; it is unfortunate that these edits should have been made without discussion.--Smerus (talk) 12:23, 9 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Agree. In addition to the examples already mentioned, Bartók's Cantata Profana is conclusive evidence that not all cantatas are Christian (there's a clue in the title...). Narky Blert (talk) 20:36, 25 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]