(n.) A band or organized company of singers, especially in church service.
(n.) That part of a church appropriated to the singers.
(n.) The chancel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bono then serenaded the archbishop with the U2 hit Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, backed by the gospel choir.
(2) He has plans to assemble choirs of 17 people in Derry, China and Brazil, and 17 Tutsis and 17 Hutus in Rwanda.
(3) Steel bands, choirs and dancers performed while the mass of people, many with their children, blew horns and whistles as they passed alongside parliament.
(4) As the cathedral clergy in their golden robes snaked in their stately procession around the nave, with the choir all in white and the bishops in white and scarlet, the theatre still seemed moving enough.
(5) Founded in 1982, Twenty Twenty is the company behind factual programmes such as The Choir, That'll Teach 'Em', Bad Lads Army, Brat Camp and current BBC2 show Grandad's Back in Business.
(6) Recent BBC2 hits included science series Wonders of the Solar System, the Springwatch-inspired Lambing Live, sitcom Miranda and The Choir follow-up Unsung Town.
(7) Bob gave a really touching speech before we started singing, so that really got everybody in the mind frame that we needed to be in to remind us that it’s fun but we’re here for a really serious reason.” Sandé added that the participants “sounded like a really powerful choir” when they sang the chorus.
(8) Musical interludes, courtesy of Gwyneth Paltrow, Celine Dion, Jennifer Hudson and, in over the end credits, an enormous children's choir belting out Over the Rainbow were only marginally better received.
(9) Another hero of the punk era, Mick Jones of the Clash, who co-wrote My Daddy was a Bank Robber, was also present but the music was left to the choir and the Alabama Three who sang Too Sick to Pray.
(10) I hate it when people are very different online than they are in person, and she’s very unified,” says Choire Sicha, her former editor at Gawker.
(11) The people of Great Britain, with the co-ordination of a shoal of mullet, didn’t just put the Lewisham and Greenwich choir in with a bullet, they made sure to buy enough of Bieber’s own work that his generous spirit would be rewarded with chart spots two, three and five.
(12) At the 1996 Brit Awards he was accompanied on stage by a children's choir, prompting a stage invasion by Jarvis Cocker of Pulp, who claimed his attitude was "Messiah-like".
(13) He and his scraggy, kind old dog Gerard were based every evening at Leicester Square tube (exit 1), and for the past two years we met every week on my way home from choir.
(14) Those who refer to such gatherings as simply preaching to the choir miss the point.
(15) Shorter, a retired electrician from Kent, began singing for the first time after joining the care home’s newly formed choir last year.
(16) My friends and I had formed the choir at university, calling ourselves Coro Bajocuerda, which means “against the ropes”; it’s how we felt living under Pinochet’s oppressive regime.
(17) "This is the first time we've been able to throw out an idea like, 'Dude, it'd be cool to have a gospel choir', and it wouldn't get shot down."
(18) This meant that if a parent was involved in flower arranging or choir rehearsals at church, they stood a better chance of securing their child a place.
(19) This humiliating practice was nicknamed "the choir".
(20) The subjects were 22 male and female junior and senior high school Caucasians in a central Kentucky church youth choir.
Choral
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a choir or chorus; singing, sung, or adapted to be sung, in chorus or harmony.
(n.) A hymn tune; a simple sacred tune, sung in unison by the congregation; as, the Lutheran chorals.
Example Sentences:
(1) Already known internationally for its food and its glittering annual film festival, the city will feature choral groups in the open air and an art project, Waves of Energy, bringing to life a surge of ideas suggested by the public, as well as performances and exhibitions inside sleek venues such as Basque music’s new home, Musikene, the San Telmo museum or the cube-shaped Kursaal on the edge of the sea.
(2) In a choral singing mode, subjects usually adjusted their voice levels to the levels they heard from the other singers, whereas in a solo singing mode the level sung depended much less on the level of an accompaniment.
(3) According to the composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle, whose work Chorales for Orchestra was premiered by Downes, "What stood out was his amazing attention to detail.
(5) Midazolam is a relatively safe and effective sedative for accurate lower esophageal sphincter pressure measurement and esophageal manometry when a mild sedative such as choral hydrate does not work.
(6) Subjects generally sang with more power in the singer's formant region in the solo mode and with more power in the fundamental region in the choral mode.
(7) If I was white and blonde and said I went to church all the time, you'd be talking about the 'choral aspect'.
(8) It’s also built around the pillaged scores of 15th-century sacred choral music – hence the Guide inviting him back to church for the first time since he was 14.
(9) Deputy Rector of the University of Glasgow and a vicar choral of Glasgow Cathedral, the physician Mark Jameson made many annotations in his copy of the 1549 edition of Fuchs' herbal.
(10) It has 200 members, the school runs pupil drama and choral groups on a co-operative basis, and even has children work together "co-operatively" in small groups in lessons.
(11) Unlike her choir partner, 88-year-old Arnold-Forster comes from a family of singers and was a member of her local choral society when she was younger.
(12) Abbado has talked of the choral finale of the Second Symphony - the "Resurrection", Mahler's coruscating vision of spiritual rebirth - as a metaphor for his own musical experience.
(13) Additional research is recommended since the present design with a comparison group of 49 non-choral members did not allow separation of effects of selection from those of activity.
(14) Lammy, who attended Downhills before winning a choral scholarship to King's, the cathedral school in Peterborough, said: "I am devastated that Michael Gove plans to erase over 100 years of history at Downhills primary school.
(15) But even conducting the first upbeat, the breath into the first bar, bringing in that chorale in the four horns, it feels like I'm putting on a glove that's kept me warm in previous winters – it's that feeling of familiarity and richness."
(16) Within the lovers' final confrontation, Bizet writes a series of choral passages for the people of Seville that create a psychological bullring around Carmen and Don José, goading our lovers to their bloody end.
(17) He began work on Love Streams by illegally downloading a bunch of choral works by Josquin des Prez, a 15th- and 16th-century Franco-Flemish composer who left little of himself to history beyond graffitiing his name in the Sistine Chapel.
(18) For all the clamour of the game’s final moments, the noise inside the Arena Corinthians before kick-off was mild after the choral din of Argentina’s previous matches, a consequence perhaps of the sheer mountainous scale of this huge open-sided stadium.
(19) The Norwegian composer Cecilie Ore describes her choral commission for the BBC Singers as "an homage to the brave members of Pussy Riot".
(20) For services to Choral Music in Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taff.