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Definition of Choral
1. Noun. A stately Protestant (especially Lutheran) hymn tune.
2. Adjective. Related to or written for or performed by a chorus or choir. "Choral ensemble"
Definition of Choral
1. a. Of or pertaining to a choir or chorus; singing, sung, or adapted to be sung, in chorus or harmony.
2. n. A hymn tune; a simple sacred tune, sung in unison by the congregation; as, the Lutheran chorals.
Definition of Choral
1. Adjective. of, relating to, written for, or performed by a choir or a chorus ¹
2. Noun. ''variant spelling of'' '''chorale''' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Choral
1. chorale [n -S] - See also: chorale
Lexicographical Neighbors of Choral
Literary usage of Choral
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Music and Musicians by Louis Charles Elson (1918)
"They had more appreciation of choral effect, and regarded the oratorio form ...
The art of dramatic choral-writing was meanwhile developed in the kindred ..."
2. Euripides and the Spirit of His Dramas by Paul Decharme (1906)
"We must keep in mind the difference between the choral element, that is, the passages
... Let us begin with the choral element. I FORMS AND RHYTHMS OF THE ..."
3. The Greek Theater and Its Drama by Roy Caston Flickinger (1922)
"CHAPTER II THE INFLUENCE OF choral ORIGIN' Tragedy and satyric drama were derived
from the ... Now both the dithyramb and the comus were entirely choral. ..."
4. An Introduction to Poetry: For Students of English Literature by Raymond Macdonald Alden (1909)
"Of a different type are certain choral lyrics sometimes used in the drama, directly
imitative of the choral odes which played so important a part in the ..."
5. History of the Literature of Ancient Greece: To the Period of Isocrates by Karl Otfried Müller, George Cornewall Lewis (1847)
"The pauses which the choral songs produced naturally divided tragedy into the
... The number of choral songs was determined by the number of stages in the ..."
6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"3, $5 2-4); hence the Reformation found artistic choral 7. The churches were
permanent choirs, whose main- •ong at it i height. ..."
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