Brett Marshall - Shes My Kind of Rain

Later practice distorted G.'s intentions, treating his folk musical tragedies as sacred music. G. deeply transformed the oratorio, creating a new type of monumental vocal.-orchestral production., Characterized by the unity of the dramatist. design. In the center of the oratorio G. - Nar. masses, its heroes and leaders. The active role of the people determined the leading importance of the choir. Western Europesecular music before G. did not know such a huge choir in scale and power of expressiveness. A variety of dramatist. chorus functions, beauty and completeness of the chord and polyphonic. sounds, flexible, free and at the same time classically completed forms made G., along with I.S. Bach, unsurpassed in Western Europe.