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Topic: MUSIC

Date: 1600-1700
Language: Italian
Origin: , from the Oratorio di San Filippo Neri, church in Rome where such music was first performed

oratorio

 noun
     
or‧a‧to‧ri‧o plural oratorios [countable]
APM a long piece of music in which a large group of people sing
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