chorale

[ kuh-ral, -rahl, kaw-, koh-; kawr-uhl, kohr- ]

noun

1. a hymn, especially one with strong harmonization:

   a Bach chorale.

2. a group of singers specializing in singing church music; choir.

chorale

/ kɒˈrɑːl /

noun

1. a slow stately hymn tune, esp of the Lutheran Church
2. a choir or chorus

Word History and Origins

Origin of chorale¹

1835–45; < German Choral, short for Choralgesang, translation of Latin cantus chorālis choral singing; choral

Word History and Origins

Origin of chorale¹

C19: from German Choralgesang, translation of Latin cantus chorālis choral song

Example Sentences

The 65-minute film will premiere Saturday at Walt Disney Concert Hall with live accompaniment by the Los Angeles Master Chorale and members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic as part of the Noon to Midnight daylong festival of new music.

From Los Angeles Times

In the Disney Hall performance, the same Master Chorale members seen in the film will be standing onstage and syncing their vocals to the mouths onscreen.

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A mutual friend connected him to Grant Gershon, artistic director of the Master Chorale, and Aitken proposed creating a song cycle.

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Other singers from the Master Chorale later joined in and “laid the bricks of a cathedral one at a time,” Gershon said, “layering and combining and building and stacking and removing.”

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Phil and the Los Angeles Master Chorale, picked up nominations for opera recording and engineered classical album; it also was cited as part of Lipay’s nomination for classical producer of the year.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• chant
• ditty
• oratorio
• paean
• psalm