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Definition of chorale in English: choralenounkɒˈrɑːlkəˈral 1A stately hymn tune, especially one associated with the German Lutheran Church. (尤指有关德国路德教会的)众赞歌 Example sentencesExamples - This work consists of a collection of 7 chorales with preludes and postludes with which the organist can make his contribution to all the liturgical parts of the religious service.
- Lutheran chorales were so often the basis of Bach's counterpoint, and Wagner devised for his Nuremberg mastersingers a counterpoint that was both traditional and contemporary.
- The four-part chorale is presented first sans pedal in Movement I; Movement II is a sprightly voluntary in ABA form, which serves as the framework for an embellished version of the hymn tune in its midsection.
- That language is enfleshed in different ways in different contexts: in gospel music and chant, in oil for anointing and in silence, in chorales and hymns and dance.
- After the final word, ‘it is done’, the chorus sang the well-known chorale from the St Matthew Passion: ‘Wenn ich einmal soll scheiden’.
- In their tenderness and intimacy, their heartfelt experience of Jesus' final hours, and their prayerful, awestruck participation in the mercy poured out in him, the chorales and choruses became prayer.
- The second movement, most directly connected with a funeral, pits the second choir, singing a chorale on the fragility of human life, against a florid commentary on God's mercy.
- The Organ Sonata #2 (for a burial ceremony) is an imposing work based on church chorales, but interspersed with moments of extreme romantic fervour.
- It also deliberately evokes them as models through the use of a Narrator, together with large - scale choruses and Lutheran chorales, the latter punctuating the action at three key points.
- The Lutheran chorale became the sure spiritual foundation of Bach's output, no more tellingly than in the Eighteen Chorales Bach revised towards the end of his life.
- I suspect that many more organ chorales were accompaniments for hymn-singing than we now appreciate: hymn books with melody were rare, and somehow the organist had to play and harmonise the tune.
- The ravishing harmony of the final invocation of Christ and ‘the glory of Paradise’ brings to mind the very similar chorales of Bernstein's Mass.
- There are very few chorales in the work but the resounding conclusion with full chorus is strikingly similar to the ending of the much more celebrated ‘St John Passion’.
- Fervent disputes were aroused by prayer in the vernacular, chorales after Protestant models, mixed choirs, and organ-playing.
- The Psalm, essentially a chorale, sings sweet enough to break your heart.
- I doubt an orthodox Lutheran composer thought he had ‘left behind’ a chorale's confessional significance when he wrote variations on it: perhaps the very opposite.
- Three of the Latin choruses are directly followed by Lutheran chorales (their tunes taken from the St Matthew and St John Passions).
- The Thirty Years War severely disrupted German liturgical life and fostered the composition of comparatively subjective chorales which could also be used for personal devotions.
- This is a new musical language only made possible when the traditional and emotive vocal wailing of the Ntaria women is applied to Lutheran chorales - the hymn tunes that were the basis of much of JS Bach's music.
- You asked me if I could perhaps play at the beginning of the service - in this instance - the first of Bach's Advent chorales.
Synonyms hymn, song, song of praise, psalm, paean, plainsong, chant, canticle - 1.1 A musical composition consisting of or resembling a harmonized version of a chorale.
赞美诗曲;赞美诗曲章 Example sentencesExamples - In his Clavierübung it was Krebs's way to treat the chorales in three sections: first a ‘praeambulum’ hinting at the mood of the tune and its contour; second a chorale prelude; and third the chorale itself.
- Shaw (and every other conductor so far) has problems with shaping the final chorale, rushing both the climax and the closing diminuendo.
- Time seems to stand still in the chorales, which are sung by the Harvard and Radcliffe groups with an honesty that precludes boredom and concerns about stylistic refinement.
- Essentially, all music historians are trained in tonal harmony by studying Bach chorales and classical music, but music before 1700 worked under rather different assumptions.
- Depending on the student's learning style, a teacher might ask a student to play the chord while naming the next chord in the chorale.
- He states that high school music theory students should be given myriad opportunities to compose melodies, chorales and ensemble warm-ups to develop basic compositional skills.
- One of the joys of this collection is the variety: from traditional brass chorales of traditional old carols to more contemporary seasonal favorites given a jazzy-bluesy or big-band swing treatment.
- The splendid music on this CD's a fine vindication of Bach's teaching, with its emphasis on thorough bass and chorales.
- No pianist has ever taken the Busoni transcription of a Bach chorale so slowly, revealing the giant edifice behind it, nor has anyone, the composer included, filled Rachmaninov's G# minor prelude with such foreboding.
- It's not a huge piece, more a quiet reflection starting from the chorale and developing a certain drama midway through, with a moment of inspired clarity at the end, as high chords soothe away the preceding tensions.
- Most of the firmly harmonized chorales were impressive (though some were thin or too slow), as were those with colourful instrumental interludes.
- Amateur singers were packing the boxes on either side of the proscenium - to jolly the audience along in three of the chorales - their voices providing a stark and, for me, a more pleasing contrast to the professionals.
- The slow playing of the melody, which is a pop song that nobody will recognise, is done by the winds and strings; they also play in slow fourpart harmony, like a chorale.
- The solemn opening Persichetti calls a ‘chorale,’ but it's definitely a chorale filtered through Stravinsky.
- Through a chromatic mist of string ostinatos, a plainsong chorale gradually emerges in the brass climaxing in resplendent fanfares, before fading away into a haze of sound as the procession recedes.
- Rhythmic values are quarter, eighth and half notes, and only the major finger pattern is used in the first chorale.
- Although a fugue, it moves very much like a chorale.
- The third movement, an elegy to the murdered child, is sad, but cool, working through the conventions of the musical elegy - the slow march, low, dark timbres, chorales, and so on.
- When already thirty, he decided on a return to basics, busying himself with contrapuntal puzzles, fugues and harmonization of chorales.
- I do have to caution that the booklet notes and texts for the chorales are in French and German only.
2US A choir or choral society. 〈主美〉唱诗班;合唱队 Example sentencesExamples - Together the chorale perform a wide repertoire of classical music from Bach, Handel and Vivaldi as well as traditional spiritual and Filipino pieces, several a cappella works and well known songs of praise.
- One chorister, who had previously sung in both the choir and the chorale formed a point of connection between groups, but there was little, if any, direct interaction.
- As the group's mission statement states, ‘the Eastern Youth Chorale is a movement of young people pursuing musical excellence,’ and their aim is to groom young singers for the adult chorale.
- In addition to his work at WOI Radio, Compton sings in his church choir, assists with Iowa State's Chamber Singers student chorale and serves as organizer/agent for an a cappella men's vocal group, The Music Men.
- Not only does Long Beach boast an eclectic art scene, the city is home to world-class art museums, internationally renowned theater companies, its own symphony orchestra, opera company and master chorale.
OriginMid 19th century: from German Choral(gesang), translating medieval Latin cantus choralis. RhymesAmal, Arles, banal, Barisal, Basle, Bhopal, Carl, corral, dhal, entente cordiale, Escorial, farl, femme fatale, Funchal, gayal, gnarl, halal, Karl, kraal, locale, marl, morale, musicale, Pascal, pastorale, procès-verbal, Provençal, rationale, real, rial, riyal, snarl, Taal, Taj Mahal, timbale, toile, Vaal, Vidal, Waal Definition of chorale in US English: choralenounkəˈral 1A musical composition (or part of one) consisting of or resembling a harmonized version of a simple, stately hymn tune. 赞美诗曲;赞美诗曲章 Example sentencesExamples - Although a fugue, it moves very much like a chorale.
- Depending on the student's learning style, a teacher might ask a student to play the chord while naming the next chord in the chorale.
- Most of the firmly harmonized chorales were impressive (though some were thin or too slow), as were those with colourful instrumental interludes.
- Time seems to stand still in the chorales, which are sung by the Harvard and Radcliffe groups with an honesty that precludes boredom and concerns about stylistic refinement.
- The third movement, an elegy to the murdered child, is sad, but cool, working through the conventions of the musical elegy - the slow march, low, dark timbres, chorales, and so on.
- He states that high school music theory students should be given myriad opportunities to compose melodies, chorales and ensemble warm-ups to develop basic compositional skills.
- Essentially, all music historians are trained in tonal harmony by studying Bach chorales and classical music, but music before 1700 worked under rather different assumptions.
- It's not a huge piece, more a quiet reflection starting from the chorale and developing a certain drama midway through, with a moment of inspired clarity at the end, as high chords soothe away the preceding tensions.
- The solemn opening Persichetti calls a ‘chorale,’ but it's definitely a chorale filtered through Stravinsky.
- Shaw (and every other conductor so far) has problems with shaping the final chorale, rushing both the climax and the closing diminuendo.
- One of the joys of this collection is the variety: from traditional brass chorales of traditional old carols to more contemporary seasonal favorites given a jazzy-bluesy or big-band swing treatment.
- Through a chromatic mist of string ostinatos, a plainsong chorale gradually emerges in the brass climaxing in resplendent fanfares, before fading away into a haze of sound as the procession recedes.
- I do have to caution that the booklet notes and texts for the chorales are in French and German only.
- No pianist has ever taken the Busoni transcription of a Bach chorale so slowly, revealing the giant edifice behind it, nor has anyone, the composer included, filled Rachmaninov's G# minor prelude with such foreboding.
- Amateur singers were packing the boxes on either side of the proscenium - to jolly the audience along in three of the chorales - their voices providing a stark and, for me, a more pleasing contrast to the professionals.
- In his Clavierübung it was Krebs's way to treat the chorales in three sections: first a ‘praeambulum’ hinting at the mood of the tune and its contour; second a chorale prelude; and third the chorale itself.
- Rhythmic values are quarter, eighth and half notes, and only the major finger pattern is used in the first chorale.
- When already thirty, he decided on a return to basics, busying himself with contrapuntal puzzles, fugues and harmonization of chorales.
- The slow playing of the melody, which is a pop song that nobody will recognise, is done by the winds and strings; they also play in slow fourpart harmony, like a chorale.
- The splendid music on this CD's a fine vindication of Bach's teaching, with its emphasis on thorough bass and chorales.
2US A choir or choral society. 〈主美〉唱诗班;合唱队 Example sentencesExamples - Not only does Long Beach boast an eclectic art scene, the city is home to world-class art museums, internationally renowned theater companies, its own symphony orchestra, opera company and master chorale.
- As the group's mission statement states, ‘the Eastern Youth Chorale is a movement of young people pursuing musical excellence,’ and their aim is to groom young singers for the adult chorale.
- One chorister, who had previously sung in both the choir and the chorale formed a point of connection between groups, but there was little, if any, direct interaction.
- Together the chorale perform a wide repertoire of classical music from Bach, Handel and Vivaldi as well as traditional spiritual and Filipino pieces, several a cappella works and well known songs of praise.
- In addition to his work at WOI Radio, Compton sings in his church choir, assists with Iowa State's Chamber Singers student chorale and serves as organizer/agent for an a cappella men's vocal group, The Music Men.
OriginMid 19th century: from German Choral(gesang), translating medieval Latin cantus choralis. |