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Choir: Encyclopedia - Choir

A choir or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. A vocal ensemble which sings in a church, or sings exclusively sacred music, is called a choir, whereas an ensemble which performs the non-soloist parts of an opera or musical theatre production (or sometimes an oratorio) is called a chorus. For most other ensembles those two words may be used interchangeably. Other equivalent terms, often used in the names of choirs to provide variety, include chorale. There are also terms for more specific types of choir, such as glee c ...

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Choir: Encyclopedia II - Choir - Famous choirs Choir - Professional choirs. Antioch Chamber Ensemble (external link) BBC Singers (external link) Chanticleer Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir Netherlands Chamber Choir Norman Luboff Choir Mattaniah Christian Male Choir Monteverdi Choir Phoenix Bach Choir (external link) Red Army Choir Philippine madrigal singers (Winner in the European Grand Prix Du Chant Choral 19 ...

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Choir: Encyclopedia II - Choir - Historical overview of choral music

A great number of composers have written choral works. However, composing instrumental music is an entirely different field than composing vocal music. The requirements of including text, making it intelligible, and catering to the special capabilities and limitations of the human voice makes composing vocal music in some ways more demanding than composing instrumental music. Due to this difficulty, many of the greatest composers have never composed choral music. Naturally, many composers have their favourite instruments and rarely compose f ...

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Choir: Encyclopedia - Apse

This article is about an architectural feature; for the astronomical term see apsis. In Romanesque, Byzantine and Gothic Christian abbey, cathedral and church architecture, the apse (Latin absis "arch, vault"; sometimes written apsis; plural apses) is the semi-circular or polygonal section of the sanctuary at the liturgical east end beyond the altar (plan, right). The semicircular projection (which may be polygonal on the exterior, or reveal the radiating projections of chapels) may be roofed ...

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Choir: Encyclopedia - Wilhelm Furtwängler

Wilhelm Furtwängler (January 25, 1886 – November 30, 1954) was a German conductor and composer. Wilhelm Furtwängler - Life and work. Furtwängler was born in Berlin into a prominent family. His father Adolf was an archaeologist, his mother a painter, and his brother Phillip a mathematician. Most of his childhood was spent in Munich, where his father taught at the university. He was given a musical education from an early age, and developed an early love of Beethoven, a composer he remained closely assoc ...

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Choir: Encyclopedia - Barry Rose

Barry Michael Rose (born 24 May 1934) is a renowned choir trainer and organist. He is best remembered for conducting the choir of St Paul's Cathedral at the wedding of Lady Diana Frances Spencer and HRH The Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor) at St Paul's Cathedral in London on Wednesday 29 July 1981. Born in Chingford, England, Barry Rose grew up accompanying the choir of his local church. After a spell as organist at St. Andrew's, Kingsbury, at the age of 25 he became the youngest cathedral orga ...

Choir: Encyclopedia - Anglican church music

Anglican church music is music written for performance in Anglican church services, primarily in England. Almost all of it is written for choir with or without organ accompaniment. The choir typically uses 'SATB' voices (Soprano or Treble, Alto or Counter-tenor, Tenor and Bass), though in many works some or all of these voices are divided into two for part or all of the piece; in this case the two halves of the choir (one one each side of the aisle) are traditionally named Decani (or 1, for the higher voice) and Canto ...

Choir: Encyclopedia - BYU Men's Chorus

The BYU Men's Chorus is one of the largest collegiate male choirs in the United States. Founded orginally in 1901 at Brigham Young University as ale glee it was directed by Anthon C. Lund until the 1920's. Then the choir was directed by Forence Jepperson Madsen and her husband, Franklin, with short periods under William F. Hanson and John R. Holliday. In 1955, it became the official class at BYU and in 1958, the current name Men's chorus was made. The reputation wasn't well known until in the 1980's when Mack Wilberg (who is now currently th ...

Choir: Encyclopedia - Voice

The word "voice" can be used to refer to: Sound: The human voice. A section of a choir or other musical ensemble that sings or plays the same part. The register of a line of counterpoint, including soprano, alto, tenor, bass. These terms come from the section of the choir to which a line would be given (the soprano voice would have been given to the soprano voices). In synthesis, a section of components or code producing a monophonic signal. For polyphony, several voices a

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Choir: Encyclopedia - Welcome song

Welcome! is a Christmas carol composed by Leslie Olive in 2004 for a choir and a bass piano or orchestra part. It was performed by the choir of Colchester Royal Grammar School in the Essex Police Band's Christmas Cracker Concert. --Title-- The title Welcome! was chosen because Christmas is about 'welcoming' Jesus, the new born king, hence the refrain of the song: Welcome to the Son of the King! Welcome ev'rybody will sing! Welcome to the joy he will bring! Sing a we ...

Choir: Encyclopedia - Bloggernacle

The Bloggernacle or Bloggernacle Choir is a name that has been adopted by the LDS blogging community to describe the Mormon portion of the blogosphere. It was created as a play on words of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. An individual LDS blogger is sometimes referred to as a bloggernacker, nacker, naccer or bloggern. Bloggernacle - History of Bloggernacle. On March 23, 2004, due to an article in The Revealer, it came to the attention of the Mormon blogging community that the Jewish and Catholic blogging commu ...

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Choir: Encyclopedia - William of Sens

William of Sens was a Twelfth century French architect, supposed to have been born at Sens. He is referred to in September, 1174, as having been the architect who undertook the task of rebuilding the choir of Canterbury cathedral, originally erected by Conrad, the prior of the monastery, and destroyed by fire in that year. A document written by one of the monks of the monastery, describing the fire, tell us that William of Sens was asked to rebuild the choir. In 1179 or 1178 the architect, in consequence of a fall, had to aband ...

Choir: Encyclopedia - Blazhen Muzh

Blazhen Muzh, in English, "Blessed is the Man," is taken from the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox tradition of Vespers. As with many of the psalms and hymns, Blazhen Muzh attracted the attention of composers. Alexander Gretchaninov first used it in his epic All-Night Vigil composed in 1912, specifically for use by the Synod Choir. Three years later, Rachmaninov used the same hymn in his Vigil, composed in 1915 and performed in Moscow, also by the Synod Choir. The version below is t ...

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Choir: Encyclopedia - Chimere

A chimere is a garment that can be worn as part of academic regalia, or by Anglican bishops in choir dress. A descendant of a riding cloak, the chimere resembles an academic gown but without sleeves, and is usually made of scarlet or black cloth. Chimere - Academic Use. The chimere is prescribed at the University of Oxford for doctors in Convocation Dress — and as such the chimere may be referred to as the Convocation Habit. Chimere - Ecclesiastical Use. Including:

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Choir: Encyclopedia - Antiphon

An antiphon is a response, usually sung in Gregorian chant, to a psalm or some other part of a religious service, such as at Vespers or at a Mass. This meaning gave rise to the antiphony style of singing, see call and response. The word is of Greek origin, αντί (opposite) + φωνη (sound). A piece of music which is performed by two semi-independent choirs interacting with one another, often singing alternate musical phrases, is known as antiphonal. In particular, antiphonal psalmody is the sing ...

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