(n.) A company of persons supposed to behold what passed in the acts of a tragedy, and to sing the sentiments which the events suggested in couplets or verses between the acts; also, that which was thus sung by the chorus.
(n.) An interpreter in a dumb show or play.
(n.) A company of singers singing in concert.
(n.) A composition of two or more parts, each of which is intended to be sung by a number of voices.
(n.) Parts of a song or hymn recurring at intervals, as at the end of stanzas; also, a company of singers who join with the singer or choir in singer or choir in singing such parts.
(n.) The simultaneous of a company in any noisy demonstration; as, a Chorus of shouts and catcalls.
(v. i.) To sing in chorus; to exclaim simultaneously.
Example Sentences:
(1) Arsenal’s 10 men fall at the first hurdle against Dinamo Zagreb Read more This win, even against such feeble opponents, was celebrated, with the locals chorusing their manager’s name amid a wave of relief given so much of the team’s domestic campaign to date has been dismal.
(2) The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest organised political movement, added its voice to the chorus of discontent, accusing Scaf of contradicting 'all human, religious and patriotic values' with their callousness and warning that the revolution that overthrew former president Hosni Mubarak earlier this year was able to rise again.
(3) She says that, while she stayed away from the more difficult ramifications of that upbringing, she nevertheless plunged right into the "hot quicksand" of the Arab-Israeli conflict, right down into the Biblical roots of Jewish-Muslim conflict in the story of Abraham, Hagar, Isaac and Ishmael (which she meditates upon in the opera's Hagar chorus), and into the vortex of questions about Israel's right to exist and what motivates terrorists.
(4) It ends with a tune featuring the chorus: "My body's nobody's body but mine.
(5) "I'm Ms Dy-na-mi-TEE-ee," she sang on the chorus, putting an emphasis on the penultimate syllable.
(6) Rafa Benítez, Rafa Benítez,” fans chorused, with the volume being raised appreciably once Gini Wijnaldum gave them lead.
(7) For every “coterie” of Audens, Spenders and Isherwoods, there is a chorus of George Orwells, Roy Campbells and Dylan Thomases, spitting vitriol.
(8) "Little by little the vast orchestra of life, the chorus of the natural world, is in the process of being quietened.
(9) Starting small, with oddly tweaked vocal samples and ominous-sounding piano, the first half is brilliantly brooding, to the point where the first chorus of “I love these streets but they weren’t meant for me to walk” arrives at the 45-second mark just as all the music drops away completely.
(10) I for one can't wait for the traditional Transfer Deadline Day dinner later this afternoon, followed by wine and cheese and a rousing chorus of several of the traditional Transfer Deadline Day songs.
(11) The company has lurched from one crisis to the next over the past two years, including industrial action this spring by the chorus, with a strike only narrowly averted .
(12) The Most Beautiful Girl In The World chorus Who Is He (And What Is He To You?)
(13) Even by the standards of Chi magazine – which has in the past published paparazzi shots of the Duchess of Cambridge sunbathing topless – the tone has appalled Italians and prompted a chorus of condemnation.
(14) The aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières has added its voice to the chorus of concern by announcing that it had halted work in the coastal city of Misrata because staff were being asked to patch up detainees during torture sessions.
(15) Satellite of Love "Lou's rich vocals coupled with Bowies ethereal chorus.
(16) He oversees Radio 3 , the Proms, five BBC orchestras, the BBC Singers and the choruses attached to two of the orchestras.
(17) The track has been referenced a huge amount in the past few months on social media, whether through verse that apes the “Hey now, you’re an all star” structure of the chorus or by remixing the track itself in ridiculous ways.
(18) Outside the court, dozens of fans cheered, chanted slogans against Hicks and Gillett and serenaded the three board members with the a chorus of "You'll Never Walk Alone."
(19) Donald Trump on Sunday stood by incendiary remarks in which he mocked Senator John McCain over his capture during the Vietnam war, refusing to bow to a chorus of criticism from Republicans and insisting he has no plans to pull out of the party’s presidential nomination contest.
(20) 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.
Oratorio
Definition:
(n.) A more or less dramatic text or poem, founded on some Scripture nerrative, or great divine event, elaborately set to music, in recitative, arias, grand choruses, etc., to be sung with an orchestral accompaniment, but without action, scenery, or costume, although the oratorio grew out of the Mysteries and the Miracle and Passion plays, which were acted.
(n.) Performance or rendering of such a composition.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Milliner (@MillinersTale) @GdnSocialCare Great program, shows need for high quality training & ongoing support, also vital role of preparation & matching June 8, 2015 The Milliner (@MillinersTale) @GdnSocialCare Also shows how introducing a new foster child ( sibling or not) to a fledgling placement can cause huge damage June 8, 2015 Oratorio (@oratorio_silver) @JerryLonsdale1 it showed the reality of a lack of carers, training and resources.
(2) Laura Barton A Child of Our Time – Michael Tippett Tippett's oratorio never fails to make me weep.
(3) Over the past year or so I have been talking about these things on and off with the composer Sally Beamish ; she has been setting some poems of mine (sonnets, again) for a new oratorio called Equal Voices, that the London Symphony Orchestra will premiere at the Barbican next month .
(4) I can be relied on to cry listening to Lorraine Hunt Lieberson's recording of As With Rosy Steps the Morn from Handel's oratorio Theodora – the emotional intensity invested in this apparently simple aria by Hunt Lieberson, a great artist who died cruelly young, is staggering.
(5) One carving, of Mary sheltering a crowd of tiny penitents under her cloak, created a scandal in the 1850s when it was taken from its original place, over the door of an oratorio in Venice (which survives, the stone still showing the scars from the removal of the sculpture) and sold to the V&A soon after the museum opened, in 1852.
(6) The composer who wrote our finest coronation anthems and our favourite oratorio, was Georg Friedrich Händel from Halle near Leipzig.
(7) And now it gets another different sort in Sally’s oratorio (she prefers to call it that, and not a requiem, because, she says: “It deals essentially with the (damaged) living, and also perhaps because I have attempted to create a vision for the future.” As I write this, I haven’t heard a note of the score.
(8) Messiah Among the many performances of Handel’s oratorio across Britain at this time of year, those by John Butt and the Dunedin Consort always stand out for their combination of scrupulous stylishness and limitless exuberance.
(9) An Easter programme will explore Handel's oratorio Messiah.