(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.
Chorister
Definition:
(n.) One of a choir; a singer in a chorus.
(n.) One who leads a choir in church music.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 2010 a chorister was dismissed for allegedly procuring male prostitutes for a papal gentleman-in-waiting.
(2) Backing this up, a recent study by the Oxford Brookes psychologist Nick Stewart found that choristers reported far higher levels of mental wellbeing than people who sang alone, or played a team sport.
(3) … a King’s chorister Peter Pan Dancers are naturals in the air, so it’s not hard for them to look spectacular in Peter Pan, here choreographed by Northern Ballet’s director David Nixon.
(4) He makes his musical journey from child chorister, to leader of his local El Sistema orchestra, to globe-trotting twentysomething conductor sound like a serene progress.
(5) Bolstered by the success of beating other groups to claim the title, the choristers from St John’s care home in North Yorkshire seized the chance to enter the contest and showcase the talented communities that thrive inside the UK’s care homes.
(6) That’s from people who, frankly, don’t feel the effects.” In his spare time, he DJ’d, specialising in house and garage, with a residency in a south London bar (at school he had played cello and was a chorister at Southwark Cathedral; his voice can be heard on the theme tune to Mr Bean).
(7) An outbreak of streptococcal throat infection which took place in a preparatory school for boys (some of whom were choristers) over three terms from November 1983 to June 1984 is described.
(8) As one former minister says of the puritan choristers: “They have spent their lives working towards this dream.