What's the difference between chorus and symphony?

Chorus


Definition:

  • (n.) A band of singers and dancers.
  • (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.

Symphony


Definition:

  • (n.) A consonance or harmony of sounds, agreeable to the ear, whether the sounds are vocal or instrumental, or both.
  • (n.) A stringed instrument formerly in use, somewhat resembling the virginal.
  • (n.) An elaborate instrumental composition for a full orchestra, consisting usually, like the sonata, of three or four contrasted yet inwardly related movements, as the allegro, the adagio, the minuet and trio, or scherzo, and the finale in quick time. The term has recently been applied to large orchestral works in freer form, with arguments or programmes to explain their meaning, such as the "symphonic poems" of Liszt. The term was formerly applied to any composition for an orchestra, as overtures, etc., and still earlier, to certain compositions partly vocal, partly instrumental.
  • (n.) An instrumental passage at the beginning or end, or in the course of, a vocal composition; a prelude, interlude, or postude; a ritornello.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mahler's Second Symphony - that song of love, renewal, and spiritual growth that Abbado has been singing for more than 40 years.
  • (2) The London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Francois-Xavier Roth in 2007.
  • (3) I mean, normally, if you have already recorded one cycle of symphonies, people don't want you to publish another, so there must be things that are better in these new recordings than the old ones.
  • (4) Sometimes it's because of a personal connection - the Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues my grandfather loved the most, which we listened to together, or the Bruckner symphony I associate with our family home in the highlands of Scotland - but the welling-up can also come completely out of the blue.
  • (5) Meanwhile he is preparing a new double piano concerto by Kevin Volans with the Labèque sisters for a concert at the Edinburgh festival next week, and he tells me with a glint in his eye about ideas for the next two seasons: concert performances of Don Giovanni this October, more Brahms symphonies, and more Berlioz – an ambitious plan to realise the gigantic drama of Roméo and Juliette on a chamber-orchestral scale, following up his rapturously received performances of L'Enfance du Christ in February.
  • (6) The plans also follow the high-profile interruption by protesters of a performance by the St Louis Symphony Orchestra.
  • (7) There was a long-standing anomaly that while the in-house symphony orchestras and the music broadcasts, including the Proms, were administered by Drummond's department, all the scheduling was in the hands of the controller of Radio 3, a post then held by Ian McIntyre, a journalist with no great sympathy for music.
  • (8) The Recessional Organ Music will be C. M. Widor’s Toccata from Symphony No 5.
  • (9) Nick Clegg, 24 October 2010 Chopin's Waltz in A Minor played by Idil Biret Sunday Morning Coming Down by Johnny Cash The Cross by Prince Petit Pays by Cesária Évora Street Spirit by Radiohead Life on Mars by David Bowie Waka Waka 2010 World Cup theme, by Shakira Schubert's Impromptu No.3 in G Flat Major played by Alfred Brendel Book The Leopard, by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Luxury A stash of cigarettes David Cameron, 28 May 2006 Tangled Up In Blue by Bob Dylan Ernie by Benny Hill Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd Mendelssohn's On Wings of Song performed by Kiri Te Kanawa and Utah Symphony Orchestra Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead This Charming Man by The Smiths Perfect Circle by R.E.M.
  • (10) He has taken various elements of the war, and translated their brutality into elegiac works, as with Freedom Qashoush Symphony, a delicate song which starts with rattled off gunfire, the symphony culminates in an urgent instrumental cry of freedom, inspired by Ibrahim al-Qashoush, an early symbol of rebel martyrdom.
  • (11) On the other hand, the Brahms Third Symphony that he brought to London with his orchestra in 1998 still revealed a masterly control of ebb and flow in a work which Abbado had always regarded as one of the most difficult to conduct from the technical point of view.
  • (12) His chaotic yet coherent masterpieces of the late 1960s, such as his Eight Songs for a Mad King, in which a violin is smashed to pieces every time the work is played – a moment that still draws gasps from any audience – through to his later cycles of concertos, symphonies, string quartets and music-theatre pieces,, as well as the dozens of pieces he has written for communities and amateur musicians to perform, make his a unique achievement in 20th and 21st century music.
  • (13) And I think that listening to something like Mahler’s 6th or 9th symphonies, you realise that the music knows what the author doesn’t.
  • (14) Last year, his composition The Masque of Time was given its world premiere by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.
  • (15) Evacuated to Bournemouth at the outbreak of war, Drummond went to hear the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and a recital by Kathleen Ferrier, whose biography he was to film 20 years later in what was probably his most successful television production.
  • (16) It was with Mahler's Second Symphony that Abbado made his debut with the Vienna Philharmonic in 1965, when, aged 32, he was invited by Karajan to conduct the orchestra at that year's Salzburg Festival (he recalls his teacher in Vienna, Hans Swarowsky, one of the century's great conducting pedagogues, ironically complimenting him after the performance, "Ah look, the new Toscanini!").
  • (17) Soskin, in his 1946 textbook, stated that insulin may be regarded as the dominant instrument in the symphony of endocrine action that results in normal carbohydrate metabolism.
  • (18) And I knew that if I really did go in six weeks, I wouldn’t finish the bloody symphony.
  • (19) From the Third Symphony (1985) onwards, the tuned percussion fades away and the palette becomes much more classical.
  • (20) To assess the risk of noise-induced hearing loss among musicians in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, personal dosimeters set to the 3-dB exchange rate were used to obtain 68 noise exposure measurements during rehearsals and concerts.