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A choir (/ ˈ k w aɪər / KWIRE), also known as a chorale or chorus (from Latin chorus, meaning 'a dance in a circle') is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform or in other words is the music performed by the ensemble.
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Pages in category "American choirs" The following 56 pages are in this category, out of 56 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Ambassadors of Harmony;
The choir's declared aim was "the practice and performance of choral works of excellence and of various schools". [11] Initially, members were drawn exclusively from the upper levels of Victorian society, the social stratum in which Coleridge and Goldschmidt moved.
The group attracted widespread media attention for several performances in 2016. Their rendition of David Bowie's "Space Oddity", performed at the Art Gallery of Ontario six days after Bowie's death, went viral on the internet and saw the choir invited to perform at two Bowie tribute shows in New York City, at Carnegie Hall and Radio City Music Hall; [5] a performance of Prince's "When Doves ...
The Choir of the French Army at the Lons-le-Saunier Theater.. A men's chorus or male voice choir (MVC) (German: Männerchor), is a choir consisting of men who sing with either a tenor or bass voice, and whose music is typically arranged into high and low tenors (1st and 2nd tenor), and high and low basses (1st and 2nd bass; or baritone and bass)—and shortened to the letters TTBB.
There are over 700 choirs in Estonia, a country of only 1.4 million people. The following is a list of some of the notable choirs. Name Type of choir
In German, the word Choral may as well refer to Protestant congregational singing as to other forms of vocal (church) music, including Gregorian chant. [1] The English word which derived from this German term, that is chorale, however almost exclusively refers to the musical forms that originated in the German Reformation.