adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
choral music (= sung by choirs )
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We perform a wide variety of choral music.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
music
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Such widely varied writers as Webern, Dallapiccola, and Stravinsky rely heavily on the textures and idioms of early choral music .
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The note patternings are really very simple in rhythmic outline, very closely resembling those of early choral music .
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The Commission expresses its anxiety that the proposed syllabus in the revised music curriculum allows less time than hitherto for choral music.
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With this criterion Euripides adjusted all the elements of the drama: language, characters, structure and choral music .
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In fact, choral music can be very flexible as to the number of parts.
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I learned to read for drums first and then to sight sing choral music and then I learned to read music in general.
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Then I sat down to meditate, with the sacred choral music playing softly in the background.
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For some choral music - the Missa Solemnis we were watching on film - you don't use a baton either.
singing
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It is not just the choral singing that puts this new Messiah up with the very best.
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However, one area which has inevitably suffered in the process is that of choral singing .
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Her love of choral singing , fostered at Oxford in the Bach Choir, gives her continuing pleasure.
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Consequently, many young people now see choral singing as less glamorous and challenging than playing in an ensemble.
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The programmes are noted particularly for the high quality of choral singing .
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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
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a choral symphony
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Russian choral music of the 17th century
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The programme includes choral works, and music for string orchestra.
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traditional Welsh choral music
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Henrietta's choral society concert draws a good crowd despite a dodgy venue in the backstreets of Catford.
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It is not always easy to avoid writing a shade smugly about the arrangements Mozart made of choral works by Handel.
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Nor do his choral forces always suggest that they are home in the idiom.
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The third and final section of the evening was choral .
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There have been ceilidhs, concerts, choral group plays - the list is long!
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To sum up, when looking for a choral text, choose words which are simple, direct, and poetic.