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taining to a choir or chorus; singing, sung, or adapted to be sung, in chorus or harmony. Choral service, a service of song.

A singer or composer of chorals.

In the manner of a chorus; adapted to be sung by a choir; in harmony.

In harmonized chorals, psalmody, part songs, etc., the part which bears the tune or melody -- in modern harmony usually the upper part -- is sometimes called the air.

o a previous strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song. It was customary, on some occasions, to dance round the altars whilst they sang the sacred hymns, which consisted of three stanzas or parts; the first of which, called strophe, was sung in turning from east to west; t…

The highest vocal part; the air or melody in choral music; anciently the tenor, now the soprano. Canto fermo ( Etym: [It.] (Mus.), the plain ecclesiastical chant in cathedral service; the plain song.

rs, to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or recited. It is the most ancient form of choral music.

Choric; choral. [R.]

music, a short passage played by the organist between the stanzas of a hymn, or in German chorals after each line.

le turning from the right to the left of the orchestra; hence, the strain, or part of the choral ode, sung during this movement. Also sometimes used of a stanza of modern verse. See the Note under Antistrophe.

The Muse who presided over the choral song and the dance, especially the latter.

Sounding alone. [Obs.] [sounds] intermixed with voice, Choral or unison. Milton.