Word Finder - choir

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Singing group; group of people who sing together; company of people who are trained to sing together.

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The church choir practices Thursday nights.

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The part of a church where the choir assembles for song.

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(Christian angelology) One of the nine ranks or orders of angels.

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Seraphim, Cherubim, and Thrones are three of the choirs of angels.

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Set of strings (one per note) for a harpsichord.

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To sing in concert.

Its church has a choir dating from the fifth century.

He's singing like the choir lead at a church revival.

The choir only is used for service.

The cathedral contains other 14th-century and early Renaissance paintings, the former including some Passion scenes, the only certain work of Barna da Siena, and some fine choir stalls.

On the 2nd of February 1829 the woodwork of the choir was set on fire by Jonathan Martin, a madman.

The portal and the choir were reconstructed in the 18th century.

Do not attempt to sing it puts the choir off.

The church is without aisles, and has a semicircular roof, and the choir is raised twelve steps above the floor of the nave.

He was buried at Canterbury, in the choir.

The old minster church, built in the middle of the 11th century, contains some fine choir stalls.

The choir has fine stalls of 1489-1490, upon one of which there is a view of the facade of the cathedral before its alteration in 1491.

Perhaps the York rubric implies that this was done when it orders (which the others do not) the thurible to be carried round the choir with the Gospel while the Creed was being sung.

He was then, at Sarum, censed by the deacon, and an acolyte censed the choir; at Bangor the Sinistrum Cornu of the altar and the relics were censed instead.

Introit, or as it is always called in the Sarum rite, " Office," a Psalm or part of a Psalm sung at the entry of the priest, or clergy and choir.

The former cathedral church was mainly built 1069-1089, but was later gothicized; near the west end of the nave a plate in the floor marks the spot where Huss stood when condemned to death, while in the midst of the choir is the brass which covered the grave of Robert Hallam, bishop of Salisbury, who died here in 1417, during the council.

The afternoon sermon, which fell to the lot of the canon in residence, had usually been delivered in the choir, but soon after Liddon's appointment it became necessary to preach the sermon under the dome, where from 3000 to 4000 persons used to gather to hear the preacher.

Their monuments were erected by Queen Elizabeth, who found the choir and tombs in ruins.

An open space forming the heart of the square in which the church stands separates the solitary western tower (14th century) from the choir and transept, the nave having been blown down by a violent hurricane in 1674 and never rebuilt.

The elaborately carved choir is also enclosed by tumbago railings made in Macao, weighing 26 tons.

Even the waggon vaults over the nave, choir and transepts are of stone unprotected by lead or tiles.

The church of the Magdalene possesses two candelabra, a gold cross, and various other works in metal by Bishop Bernward; and the Lutheran church of St Andrew has a choir dating from 1389 and a tower 385 ft.

It is reserved for the priests, and in that respect differs from the choir, the stalls in which are occasionally occupied by the laity.

In 1740, on the recommendation of the Dean of Hainburg, Haydn obtained a place in the cathedral choir of St Stephen's, Vienna, where he took the solo-part in the services and received, at the choir school, some further instruction on the violin and the harpsichord.

In the chapel behind the choir is hung one of Van Dyck's masterpieces, "The Erection of the Cross."

The church, which rises high above the buildings clustering round it, consists of transepts and four bays of the nave of Romanesque architecture and of a fine choir (1450 - I 521) in the Flamboyant Gothic style with a triforium surmounted by lofty windows.

The finest part of the exterior is the choir, which is ornamented with a profusion of carved pinnacles and balustrading.

The Romanesque choir and apse belong to the 11th century, the rest of the interior is contemporary with the facade.

La Chapelle is still older, dating nominally from 1210, the choir and transept being considered to date from about fifty years later.

The insignia (pontificalia or pontificals) of the Roman Catholic bishop are (I) a ring with a jewel, symbolizing fidelity to the church, (2) the pastoral staff, (3) the pectoral cross, (4) the vestments, consisting of the caligae, stockings and sandals, the tunicle, and purple gloves, (5) the mitre, symbol of the royal priesthood, (6) the throne (cathedra), surmounted by a baldachin or canopy, on the gospel side of the choir in the cathedral church.

It is worn in choir at the solemn offices; it is the official sacral dress of the lower clergy in their liturgical functions; it is worn by the priest when administering the sacraments, undertaking benedictions, and the like; the use of the alb being nowadays almost exclusively confined to the mass and functions connected with this.

Originally only a choir vestment and peculiar to lower clergy, it gradually - certainly no later than the 13th century - replaced the alb as the vestment proper to the administering of the sacraments and other sacerdotal functions.

The roof is supported by fifty-two pillars with canopied niches for statues instead of capitals; the great windows of the choir, reputed to be the largest in the world, are filled with stained glass of 1844.

In a crypt under the choir lies the body of the cardinal saint Carlo Borromeo, who consecrated the cathedral in 1577.

The choir is painted in perspective (there was no room to build one), the earliest example of this device, which was so frequently used in baroque architecture.

The choir, crossing, and beautiful sixteen-sided dome, with the elegant external decorations in terra-cotta and marble, are by Bramante (c. 1492).

The choir's performance was absolutely top-notch; they have never sung better.

Schlick goes on to say the organ is to be suited to the choir and properly tuned for singing, that the singer may not be forced to sing too high or too low and the organist have to play chromatics, which is not handy for every one.

The public meetings of the great oecumenical council (1431-1449) were held in the choir, while the committees sat in the chapter-house.

Occupying the site of a much earlier building, of which there are remains, the present church with its fine choir was built in the middle of the 15th century.

He devoted himself in_ 1335 to the completion of the choir of Beauvais Cathedral, the enormous windows of which were filled with the richest glass, But this building activity, which has left one of the most notable Gothic monuments in Europe, was broken into by the Hundred Years' War.

The choir is used as the parish church.

It has an Evangelical and seven Roman Catholic churches, among the latter the cathedral of St Wilibald (first bishop of Eichstatt), - with the tomb of the saint and numerous pictures and relics, - the church of St Walpurgis, sister of Wilibald, whose remains rest in the choir, and the Capuchin church, a copy of the Holy Sepulchre.

Thegroinedvaulting of the roof is visible in the choir and the right transept, while the rest of the church has a wooden roof.

Begun by the Countess Matilda of Tuscany in 1099, after the designs of Lanfranc, and consecrated in 1184, the Romanesque cathedral (S Geminiano) is a low but handsome building, with a lofty crypt, under the choir (characteristic of the Tuscan Romanesque architecture), three eastern apses, and a façade still preserving some curious sculptures of the 12th century.

Here he repaired the fabric and changed the position of the communion table, a matter which aroused great religious controversy, from the centre of the choir to the east end, by a characteristic tactless exercise of power offending the bishop, who henceforth refused to enter the cathedral.

Thus there was the prior scholae or leader of the choir, prior scriniariorum, &c.

The transepts have eastern apsidal chapels, as have the choir aisles, though the walls of these last.

The frescoes in the choir, with scenes from the life of St John the Baptist and St Stephen, are by Fra Filippo Lippi (1456-1466) and are his best work; the dance of Salome and the lying in state of St Stephen are the finest of the series.

It was a trifling set-off that in 1567 the pope again enjoined the fathers to keep choir and to admit only the professed to priests' orders, especially as Gregory XIII.

The choir of the old Gothic church of 1398 (restored at the end of the 19th century) forms a portion of the parish church.