CHORAL


Meaning of CHORAL in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

choral music (= sung by choirs )

We perform a wide variety of choral music.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

music

Such widely varied writers as Webern, Dallapiccola, and Stravinsky rely heavily on the textures and idioms of early choral music .

The note patternings are really very simple in rhythmic outline, very closely resembling those of early choral music .

The Commission expresses its anxiety that the proposed syllabus in the revised music curriculum allows less time than hitherto for choral music.

With this criterion Euripides adjusted all the elements of the drama: language, characters, structure and choral music .

In fact, choral music can be very flexible as to the number of parts.

I learned to read for drums first and then to sight sing choral music and then I learned to read music in general.

Then I sat down to meditate, with the sacred choral music playing softly in the background.

For some choral music - the Missa Solemnis we were watching on film - you don't use a baton either.

singing

It is not just the choral singing that puts this new Messiah up with the very best.

However, one area which has inevitably suffered in the process is that of choral singing .

Her love of choral singing , fostered at Oxford in the Bach Choir, gives her continuing pleasure.

Consequently, many young people now see choral singing as less glamorous and challenging than playing in an ensemble.

The programmes are noted particularly for the high quality of choral singing .

There are nevertheless still some school, borough and county choirs which flourish and some music centres which also promote choral singing .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a choral symphony

Russian choral music of the 17th century

The programme includes choral works, and music for string orchestra.

traditional Welsh choral music

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Henrietta's choral society concert draws a good crowd despite a dodgy venue in the backstreets of Catford.

It is not always easy to avoid writing a shade smugly about the arrangements Mozart made of choral works by Handel.

Nor do his choral forces always suggest that they are home in the idiom.

The third and final section of the evening was choral .

There have been ceilidhs, concerts, choral group plays - the list is long!

To sum up, when looking for a choral text, choose words which are simple, direct, and poetic.

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