Chorally: alternatives and connections

Formerly the part sung by the highest male, or counter-tenor, voices; now the part sung by the lowest female, or contralto, voices, be…

Of or pertaining to antiphony, or alternate singing; sung alternately by a divided choir or opposite choirs.

The response which one side of the choir makes to the other in a chant; alternate chanting or signing.

A musical response; also, antiphonal chanting or signing.

In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. Hen…

A passing tone preceding an essential tone, and borrowing the time it occupies from that; a short auxiliary or grace note one degree a…

An artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment, or an interlude, by a number of persons, usually women. Sometimes, a scene…

A note or character of time, equivalent to two semibreves or four minims. When dotted, it is equal to three semibreves. It was formerl…

That which is borne or carried; a load.

A singer; esp. the leader of a church choir; a precentor.

Of or pertaining to a cantor; as, the cantoris side of a choir; a cantoris stall.

See Chine, n., 3.

A chorus leader; esp. one who provided at his own expense and under his own supervision one of the choruses for the musical contents a…

ode sung by the chorus in classical Greek drama

A small job; in the pl., the regular or daily light work of a household or farm, either within or without doors.

Of or pertaining to a chorus.

One of a choir; a singer in a chorus.

A band of singers and dancers.