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Musical ensemble of singers.
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Claudio Monteverdi
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Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, string player, choirmaster, and priest.
Organ (music)
1 linksKeyboard instrument of one or more pipe divisions or other means for producing tones, each played with its own keyboard, played either with the hands on a keyboard or with the feet using pedals.
Keyboard instrument of one or more pipe divisions or other means for producing tones, each played with its own keyboard, played either with the hands on a keyboard or with the feet using pedals.
Due to its simultaneous ability to provide a musical foundation below the vocal register, support in the vocal register, and increased brightness above the vocal register, the organ is ideally suited to accompany human voices, whether a congregation, a choir, or a cantor or soloist.
Thomas Tallis
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Thomas Tallis (c.
1505 – 23 November 1585; also Tallys or Talles) was an English Renaissance composer who occupies a primary place in anthologies of English choral music.
Choir (architecture)
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A choir, also sometimes called quire, is the area of a church or cathedral that provides seating for the clergy and church choir.
Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)
2 linksChoral symphony, the final complete symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven, composed between 1822 and 1824.
Choral symphony, the final complete symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven, composed between 1822 and 1824.
The final (4th) movement of the symphony features four vocal soloists and a chorus.
Hymn
2 linksType of song, usually religious and partially coincident with devotional song, specifically written for the purpose of adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a deity or deities, or to a prominent figure or personification.
Type of song, usually religious and partially coincident with devotional song, specifically written for the purpose of adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a deity or deities, or to a prominent figure or personification.
By the 1860s musical reformers like Lowell Mason (the so-called "better music boys") were actively campaigning for the introduction of more "refined" and modern singing styles, and eventually these American tune books were replaced in many churches, starting in the Northeast and urban areas, and spreading out into the countryside as people adopted the gentler, more soothing tones of Victorian hymnody, and even adopted dedicated, trained choirs to do their church's singing, rather than having the entire congregation participate.
Joseph Haydn
2 linksAustrian composer of the Classical period.
Austrian composer of the Classical period.
The people of Hainburg heard him sing treble parts in the church choir.
Orlando Gibbons
2 linksEnglish composer and keyboard player who was one of the last masters of the English Virginalist School and English Madrigal School.
English composer and keyboard player who was one of the last masters of the English Virginalist School and English Madrigal School.
Orlando was born into a musical family: not only was his father a musician, but his oldest brother, Edward, was a composer and master of the Choir of King's College, Cambridge.
Men's chorus
0 linksA men's chorus or male voice choir (MVC) (German: Männerchor), is a choir consisting of men who sing with either a tenor or bass voice, and whose music is typically arranged into high and low tenors (1st and 2nd tenor), and high and low basses (1st and 2nd bass; or baritone and bass)—and shortened to the letters TTBB.