A choir or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. A musical ensemble is, by definition, a group of three or more musicians who gather to perform music. ... In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who uses his or her voice as an instrument to make music. ...

Children's choir

Terminology: A vocal ensemble which sings in a church, or sings exclusively sacred music, is called a choir, whereas an ensemble which performs the non-soloist parts of an opera or musical theatre production (or sometimes an oratorio) is called a chorus. For most other ensembles those two words may be used interchangeably. Other equivalent terms, often used in the names of choirs to provide variety, include chorale. There are also terms for more specific types of choir, such as glee club, barbershop quartet and Madrigal group. This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... A church building is a building used in Christian worship. ... The foyer of Charles Garniers Opéra, Paris, opened 1875 Opera is an art form consisting of a dramatic stage performance set to music. ... Musical theater (or theatre) is a form of theater combining music, songs, dance, and spoken dialogue. ... An oratorio is a large musical composition for orchestra, vocal soloists and chorus. ... For the communications operator see Chorus Communications For the computer operating system see ChorusOS In classical music a chorus is any substantial group of performers in a play, revue, musical or opera who act more or less as one. ... A Glee Club is a chorus, historically of men but also of just women or mixed voices, which specializes in singing short songs. ... Barbershop harmony is a style of unaccompanied vocal music characterized by consonant four-part chords for every melody note in a predominantly homophonic texture. ... A madrigal is a setting for 4–6 voices of a secular text, often in Italian. ...

A choir usually has eight or more singers, typically with two or more singers on each part; a chorus is typically larger still, with many singers on each part. Smaller vocal ensembles are usually called trios, quartets, quintets, etc. (e.g. barbershop quartet), or a vocal group or singing group. A quartet is a group of four identical or similar objects, or or a grouping of four persons for a common purpose. ...

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Structure of choirs

Choirs are often led by a conductor or choirmaster. Most often choirs consist of four parts but there is no limit to the number of possible parts: Thomas Tallis wrote a 40-part motet entitled Spem in alium, for eight choirs of five parts each; Krzysztof Penderecki's Stabat Mater is for three choirs of 16 voices each, a total of 48 parts. Other than four, the most common number of parts are three, five, six and eight. A conductors score and batons Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. ... Thomas Tallis Thomas Tallis (ca. ... In Western music, motet is a word that is applied to a number of highly varied choral musical compositions. ... Krzysztof Penderecki (born November 23, 1933) is a Polish composer of classical music. ...

Choirs can sing with or without instrumental accompaniment. Singing without accompaniment is typically called a cappella singing (although this usage is discouraged by the American Choral Directors Association^[1]). When singing with instrumental accompaniment, the accompanying instruments can consist of practically any instruments, one, several, or a full orchestra. In Anglican church music the accompanying instrument is almost always an organ. A cappella music is vocal music or singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. ... The American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) is a non-profit organization aimed at improving the quality of education towards choral music. ... Orchestra at City Hall (Edmonton). ... Anglican church music is music written for performance in Anglican church services, primarily in England. ... This article or section should be merged with Pipe organ The Casavant pipe organ at Notre-Dame de Montréal Basilica, Montreal The organ is a type of keyboard musical instrument, distinctive because the sound is not produced by a percussion action, as on a piano or celesta, or by...

For rehearsals, a piano accompaniment is often used even if a different instrumentation is planned for performance, or for rehearsing a cappella music. This article is about the modern musical instrument. ...

Choirs can be categorized by the voices they include:

• Mixed choirs (i.e. with male and female voices). This is perhaps the most common type, usually consisting of soprano, alto, tenor and bass voices, often abbreviated as SATB. Often one or more voices is divided into two, e.g. SSAATTBB, where each voice is divided into two parts, and SATBSATB, where the choir is divided into two semi-independent four-part choirs. Occasionally baritone voice is also used (e.g. SATBarB), often sung by the higher basses.
• Male choirs, with the same SATB voicing as mixed choirs, but with boys singing the upper part (often called treble or boy soprano) and men singing alto (in falsetto), also known as countertenor.
• Female choirs, usually consisting of soprano and alto voices, two parts in each, often abbreviated as SSAA.
• Men's choirs, usually consisting of two tenors, baritone, and bass, often abbreviated as TTBB (or ATBB if the upper part sings falsetto in alto range, as is common in barbershop music).
• Children's choirs, often two-part SA or three-part SSA, sometimes more voices.

Choirs are also categorized by the institutions in which they operate: Look up Soprano in Wiktionary, the free dictionary In music, a soprano is a singer with a voice ranging approximately from middle C to the A a thirteenth above middle C (above the treble clef). ... In music, an alto is a singer with a vocal range somewhere between a tenor and a mezzo-soprano. ... In music, a tenor is a male singer with a high voice (although not as high as a countertenor). ... Bass (IPA: [], rhyming with face), when used as an adjective, describes tones of low frequency. ... This is an article on the voice type. ... Treble is a term applied in music to the high or acute part of the musical system, as opposed to the bass, the lower or grave part. ... Boy soprano (or treble in British English; see below) is a term applied in music to a young male singer with an unchanged voice in the soprano range. ... Falsetto (fall-SET-oh) is a singing technique that produces sounds pitched higher than the singers normal range. ... The countertenor is a unique and somewhat controversial vocal class for men, being the highest voice class for them. ... Falsetto (fall-SET-oh) is a singing technique that produces sounds pitched higher than the singers normal range. ... In music, an alto is a singer with a vocal range somewhere between a tenor and a mezzo-soprano. ... Gotcha!, 2004 International Barbershop Quartet Champion Barbershop harmony is a style of unaccompanied vocal music characterized by consonant four-part chords for every melody note in a predominantly homophonic texture. ...

• Church choirs
• College choirs
• School choirs
• Community choirs (of children or adults)
• Professional choirs, either independent (e.g. Chanticleer) or state-supported (e.g. Netherlands Chamber Choir)

Finally, some choirs are categorized by the type of music they perform, such as A church building is a building used in Christian worship. ... A college (Latin collegium) can be the name of any group of colleagues; originally it meant a group of people living together under a common set of rules (con-, together + leg-, law). As a consequence members of colleges were originally styled fellows and still are in some places. ... Chanticleer is the name of a rooster in the fable Chanticleer and the Fox, one version of which is told in Chaucers Canterbury Tales. ...

• Symphonic choirs
• Vocal jazz choirs
• Show choirs, in which the members sing and dance, often in performances somewhat like a musical.

Dance (from Old French dance, further history unknown) generally refers to human movement either used as a form of expression (see also body language) or presented in a social, spiritual or performance setting. ... The art of singing and dancing in a prepared fictional play has been a time-honored tradition ranging to the early days of civilization. ...

Skills involved in choral singing

Choral singers vary greatly in their ability and performance. The best choral singers possess (among others) the following abilities:

• to sing precisely in tune and with a pleasing vocal timbre which blends with the other singers;
• to sing at precisely controlled levels of volume, matching the dynamics and expression marked in the score or prescribed by the conductor, and not sing so loudly as to be markedly detectable as an individual voice within the section;
• to sight-read music fluently;
• to sing solo passages when required;
• to memorize or near-memorize the music, and thus be able to keep eyes on the conductor as much as possible;
• to read and pronounce the sounds of foreign languages accurately and in the pronunciation style specified by the leader;
• to remain completely alert for long periods, monitoring closely what is going on in a rehearsal or performance;
• to monitor one's own singing and detect errors. In British choirs, it is often the custom for a singer to raise a hand to indicate to the conductor that he/she realizes he/she has made a mistake and will not repeat it;
• to accept direction from others for the good of the group as a whole, even when the singer disagrees esthetically with the instructions.

Singers who have perfect pitch require yet another skill: In music, timbre is determined by its specturm, which is a specific mix of keynote,overtones, noise, tune behaviour, envelope ( ... ) as well as the temporal change of the spectrum and the amplitude. ... Sight reading is reading and performing a work of music without having seen it before. ... Absolute pitch is either the exact pitch of a note described by its number of vibrations per second, or the ability, commonly referred to as perfect pitch, to identify a note by name without the benefit of a reference note. ...

• to sing music in keys other than that in which it is written, since choirs often sing music in transposed form.

Historical overview of choral music

A great number of composers have written choral works. However, composing instrumental music is an entirely different field than composing vocal music. The requirements of including text, making it intelligible, and catering to the special capabilities and limitations of the human voice makes composing vocal music in some ways more demanding than composing instrumental music. Due to this difficulty, many of the greatest composers have never composed choral music. Naturally, many composers have their favourite instruments and rarely compose for other types instruments or ensembles, and choral music is in this sense not a special case. On the other hand, many composers of all eras have specialized in choral music, and for the first thousand years of western music history choral music was one of the only types of music to have survived intact. A composer is a person who writes music. ...

Medieval music

The earliest notated music of western Europe is Gregorian Chant, along with a few other types of chant which were later subsumed (or sometimes suppressed) by the Catholic Church. This tradition of a cappella choir singing lasted from sometime between the times of St. Ambrose (4th century) and Gregory the Great (6th century) into the late Middle Ages. During the later Middle Ages, a new type of singing involving multiple melodic parts, called organum became predominant for certain functions, but initially this polyphony was only sung by soloists. Further developments of this technique included clausulae, conductus and the motet, which was to become a predominant Renaissance form. The first evidence of performance with more than one singer per part comes in the Old Hall Manuscript (1420, though containing music from the late 1300s), in which there is occasional divisi (where one part divides into two different notes, something a solo singer obviously couldn't handle). Gregorian chant is also known as plainchant or plainsong, and is a form of monophonic, unaccompanied singing, which was developed in the Catholic church, mainly during the period 800-1000. ... Saint Ambrose, Latin Sanctus Ambrosius, Italian SantAmbrogio (circa 340 - April 4, 397), bishop of Milan, was one of the most eminent fathers of the Christian church in the 4th century. ... (3rd century - 4th century - 5th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 4th century was that century which lasted from 301 to 400. ... Saint Gregory I, or Gregory the Great (called the Dialogist in Eastern Orthodoxy) (circa 540 - March 12, 604) was pope of the Catholic Church from September 3, 590 until his death. ... (5th century — 6th century — 7th century — other centuries) Events The first academy of the east the Academy of Gundeshapur founded in Persia by the Persian Shah Khosrau I. Irish colonists and invaders, the Scots, began migrating to Caledonia (later known as Scotland) Glendalough monastery, Wicklow Ireland founded by St. ... A musician plays the vielle in a 14th century medieval manuscript. ... This article is about a style of music. ... Polyphony is a musical texture consisting of several independent melodic voices, as opposed to music with just one voice (monophony) or music with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords (homophony). ... In Western musical theory a cadence (Latin cadentia, a falling) is a particular series of intervals (a caesura) or chords that ends a phrase, section, or piece of music. ... In medieval music, conductus is a type of liturgical vocal composition for one or more voices. ... In Western music, motet is a word that is applied to a number of highly varied choral musical compositions. ... Renaissance music is classical music written during the Renaissance period, approximately 1400 to 1600 CE. Defining the end of the period is easier than defining the beginning, since there were no revolutionary shifts in musical thinking at the beginning of the 15th century corresponding to the sudden development of the... The Old Hall Manuscript (sometimes Old Hall MS) is the largest, most complete, and most significant source of English sacred music of the late 14th and early 15th centuries, and as such represents the best source for English music of the late Medieval era. ...

Renaissance music

During the Renaissance, sacred choral music was the principal type of (formal or 'serious') music in Western Europe. Many of the greatest composers of the time composed hundreds of masses, motets and other works for singing by choirs--mostly a cappella, though there is some dispute over the role of instruments during certain periods and in certain areas. Some of the names of composers of this time include Josquin des Prez, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, and William Byrd; the glories of Renaissance polyphony were choral, sung by choirs of great skill and distinction all over Europe; indeed most of the secular forms of music of the Baroque derive in some way from the flowering of music during this intensely creative time. Renaissance music is classical music written during the Renaissance period, approximately 1400 to 1600 CE. Defining the end of the period is easier than defining the beginning, since there were no revolutionary shifts in musical thinking at the beginning of the 15th century corresponding to the sudden development of the... This article discusses the Mass as a standard form of classical music composition. ... In Western music, motet is a word that is applied to a number of highly varied choral musical compositions. ... A cappella music is vocal music or singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. ... Josquin Des Prez Josquin Des Prez (diminutive of Joseph; latinized Josquinus Pratensis) (c. ... Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (Born in Palestrina (Praeneste) or Rome, 1525, latest February 1, 1526 – February 2, 1594 in Rome) was an Italian composer of Renaissance music. ... The William Byrd in this article was a composer who died in 1623. ... Polyphony is a musical texture consisting of several independent melodic voices, as opposed to music with just one voice (monophony) or music with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords (homophony). ... Baroque music is Western classical music from the Baroque era, after the Renaissance music era and before the Classical music era proper. ...

Baroque music

One of the first great choral composers of the Baroque era was Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643), a master of counterpoint, who conclusively showed some of what could be done with choirs and many other musical ensembles, using the new techniques pioneered by the Venetian School and the Florentine Camerata. Monteverdi, together with Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672), demonstrated how music can support and reinforce the message of the lyrics, just as Palestrina had done several generations earlier. They both composed a large amount of music for both a cappella choir as well as choirs accompanied by different ensembles. Baroque music is Western classical music from the Baroque era, after the Renaissance music era and before the Classical music era proper. ... Portrait of Claudio Monteverdi in Venice, 1640, by Bernardo Strozzi Claudio Monteverdi (May 15, 1567 (baptised) – November 29, 1643) was an Italian composer, violinist and singer. ... Counterpoint is a very general feature of music (especially prominent in much Western music) whereby two or more melodic strands occur simultaneously – in separate voices, either literally or metaphorically (if the music is instrumental). ... In music history, the Venetian School is a term used to describe the composers working in Venice from about 1550 to around 1610; it also describes the music they produced. ... The Florentine Camerata was a group of humanists, musicians, poets and intellectuals in late Renaissance Florence that gathered under the patronage of Count Giovanni de Bardi to discuss and guide trends in the arts, especially music and drama. ... Heinrich Schütz Heinrich Schütz (October 9, 1585 – November 6, 1672) was a German composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and is often considered to be one of the most important composers of the 17th century along with Claudio Monteverdi. ...

A century later, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was the next to make his prominent mark in history. Due to his work as a cantor, he came to compose an overwhelming amount of sacred choral music: cantatas, motets, passions and other music. He is also famous for his vast output in chorales, essentially stylistically harmonised hymn-tunes. Bach's influence through his choral writing on the development of classical harmony is not to be underestimated. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1748 portrait by Elias Gottlob Haussmann Johann Sebastian Bach (21 March 1685 (O.S.) – July 28, 1750 (N.S.))[1] was a German composer and organist of the Baroque period, and is widely acknowledged[2] as one of the greatest composers of any period in western classical... Cantata (Italian for a song or story set to music), a vocal composition accompanied by instruments and generally containing more than one movement. ... In Western music, motet is a word that is applied to a number of highly varied choral musical compositions. ... A chorale is a hymn of the Lutheran church sung by the entire congregation. ... A hymn is a song specifically written as a song of praise, adoration or prayer, typically addressed to a god. ... Classical music is music considered classical, as sophisticated and refined, in a regional tradition. ... Harmony is the use and study of pitch simultaneity and chords, actual or implied, in music. ...

Classical and Romantic music

Major composers of choral music include Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Joseph Haydn, and Johannes Brahms. Sacred music escaped from the church and leaped onto the concert stage, with large sacred works unsuitable for church use, such as Beethoven's Missa solemnis, Luigi Cherubini's Requiem, and Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem. W. A. Mozart, 1790 portrait by Johann Georg Edlinger Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791) is among the most popular, significant and influential composers of European classical music. ... (Franz) Joseph Haydn (in German, Josef; he never used the Franz) (March 31, 1732 – May 31, 1809) was a leading composer of the classical period. ... Johannes Brahms (May 7, 1833 – April 3, 1897) was a German composer of Romantic music, who predominantly lived in Vienna, Austria. ... Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptized December 17, 1770 – March 26, 1827) was a German composer of Classical music, the predominant musical figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras. ... Missa Solemnis is Latin for solemn mass, and is a name which has been applied to a number of musical settings of the mass, especially particularly serious or large-scale ones. ... Luigi Cherubini (September 14, 1760 – March 15, 1842) was an Italian composer. ... Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem) is a large-scale choral work written by Johannes Brahms in 1868; it is Brahms Op. ...

20th and 21st centuries

As in other genres of music, choral music underwent a period of experimentation and development during the 20th century. While few well-known composers focused primarily on choral music, most significant composers of the early century wrote at least a small amount. 20th century classical music was extremely diverse, beginning with the late Romantic style of Sergei Rachmaninoff and the Impressionism of Claude Debussy, and ranging to such distant sound-worlds as the complete serialism of Pierre Boulez, the simple triadic harmonies of minimalist composers such as Steve Reich, and Philip Glass...

The early post-Romantic composers, such as Richard Strauss and Sergei Rachmaninoff, contributed to the genre, but it was Ralph Vaughan Williams who made the greatest contribution of this type, writing new motets in the Renaissance style with the new harmonic languages, and arranging English and Scotting folk songs. Arnold Schoenberg's Friede auf Erden represents the culmination of this style, a tonal kaleidoscope whose tonal centers are constantly shifting (similar to his Verklaerte Nacht for strings from the same period). Richard Strauss (June 11, 1864 – September 8, 1949) was a German composer of the late Romantic era, particularly noted for his tone poems and operas. ... Rachmaninoff, from a 1921 Victor advertisement Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (April 1, 1873 – March 28, 1943) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. ... Ralph Vaughan Williams (October 12, 1872 – August 26, 1958) was an influential British composer. ... In Western music, motet is a word that is applied to a number of highly varied choral musical compositions. ... Arnold Schoenberg, Los Angeles, 1948 For the American music critic and journalist, see Harold Charles Schonberg. ...

As the century progressed, modernist techniques found their expression in choral music, including serial compositions by Schoenberg, Anton von Webern, and Stravinsky; eclectic compositions by Charles Ives; dissonant counterpoint by Darius Milhaud (Cinq Rechants) and Paul Hindemith (When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd). Because of the difficulty of singing atonal music, these compositions are rarely performed today, although enjoyed by specialists. However, the primitivist movement is represented by Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, a composition widely performed. Arnold Schoenberg, Los Angeles, 1948 Arnold Schoenberg, (the anglicized form of Schönberg—Schoenberg changed the spelling officially when he became a U.S. citizen) (September 13, 1874 – July 13, 1951) was a composer, born in Vienna, Austria. ... Anton Webern (December 3, 1883 – September 15, 1945) was a composer of classical music and a member of the so called Second Viennese School. ... Igor Fyodorovitch Stravinsky () (June 17, 1882 – April 6, 1971) was a composer of modern classical music. ... This photo from around 1913 shows Ives in his day job: he was the director of a successful insurance agency. ... Darius Milhaud (September 4, 1892 - June 22, 1974) was a French-Jewish composer and teacher. ... Paul Hindemith (November 16, 1895 – December 28, 1963) was a German classical composer, violist, teacher, theorist and conductor. ... Carl Orff Carl Orff (July 10, 1895 – March 29, 1982) was a German composer born in Munich. ... The name Carmina Burana refers both to a collection of 13th-century songs and poetry, and a 20th-century musical setting of texts from it. ...

Neoclassical styles found a more enduring legacy in choral music. Benjamin Britten wrote a number of well-known choral works, including War Requiem, Five Flower Songs, and Rejoice in the Lamb. Francis Poulenc's Motets pour le temps de noël, Gloria, and Mass in G are often performed. Hugo Distler wrote a huge amount of modern music modelled on the forms of Bach. In the United States, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, and Randall Thompson wrote signature American pieces. In Eastern Europe, Bela Bartok and Zoltan Kodaly wrote a small amount of choral music. Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh (November 22, 1913 – December 4, 1976) was a British composer and pianist. ... Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (January 7, 1899 - January 30, 1963) was a French composer. ... Hugo Distler (June 24, 1908 – November 1, 1942) was a German composer. ... Aaron Copland (born Aaron Cohen) (November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was an American composer of modern tonal music as well as film music. ... Samuel Barber, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1944 Samuel Osborne Barber (March 9, 1910 – January 23, 1981) was a United States composer of classical music best known for his Adagio for Strings. ... B la Bart k (March 25, 1881 – September 26, 1945) was a composer, pianist and collector of East European folk music. ... Zoltan Kodaly Zoltán Kodály (December 16, 1882 – March 6, 1967) was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, educator, linguist and philosopher. ...

Post-World War II music took experimentation to its logical extreme. Sinfonia by Luciano Berio includes a chorus. Krzysztof Penderecki's St. Luke Passion includes choral shouting, clusters, and aleatoric techniques. Richard Felciano wrote for chorus and electronic tape. Luciano Berio (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian composer. ... Krzysztof Penderecki (born November 23, 1933) is a Polish composer of classical music. ...

Minimalism is represented by Arvo Pärt, whose Johannespassion and Magnificat have received regular performances. Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features. ... Arvo Pärt (born 11 September 1935) is an Estonian composer, often identified with the school of minimalism. ...

Avant-garde techniques:

• Shouting
• Fry tones (lowest possible note)
• Tone clusters
• Wordless chorus, spearheaded by Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker and Holst's The Planets, was expanded by Schoenberg, Darius Milhaud, and others.

Black Spirituals came into greater prominence and arrangements of such spirituals became part of the standard choral repertoire. Notable composers and arrangers of choral music in this tradition include André Thomas and Moses Hogan. A tone cluster, in music and in Western tuning, is a chord or simultaneity comprised of consecutive tones separated chromatically. ... A performance of The Nutcracker The story of The Nutcracker and the Mouse King was written by E. T. A. Hoffmann. ... The Planets (also known as The Planets Suite), opus 32, is an orchestral suite by the English composer Gustav Holst. ... Arnold Schoenberg, Los Angeles, 1948 Arnold Schoenberg, (the anglicized form of Schönberg—Schoenberg changed the spelling officially when he became a U.S. citizen) (September 13, 1874 – July 13, 1951) was a composer, born in Vienna, Austria. ... Darius Milhaud (September 4, 1892 - June 22, 1974) was a French-Jewish composer and teacher. ... A spiritual is a African American song, usually with a Christian religious text. ...

While it is too soon to discern trends in the 21st century, the spirit of more practical tonally-oriented music which dominated the last decades of the 20th century seems to be continuing via the works of Karl Jenkins, John Rutter and Robert Steadman amongst others. Eric Whitacre, however, has achieved considerable attention by combining tonal music with tone clusters and similar experimental techniques. (Redirected from 21st century classical music) In the broadest sense, contemporary music is any music being written in the present day. ... Karl Jenkins (born 1944) is a Welsh musician and composer. ... John Rutter (born September 24, 1945) is an English composer, choral conductor, editor and arranger. ... Robert Steadman is a prolific British composer, conductor and educationalist. ... Eric Whitacre (born 1970) is an American composer of choral and symphonic music and electronica. ... A tone cluster, in music and in Western tuning, is a chord or simultaneity comprised of consecutive tones separated chromatically. ...

Famous choirs

Professional choirs

• BBC Singers (external link)
• Chanticleer
• Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
• Netherlands Chamber Choir
• Red Army Choir
• The Philippine Madrigal Singers (Winner in the European Grand Prix Du Chant Choral 1997)

Chanticleer is a male vocal ensemble with a wide repertoire that performs throughout the world. ... The Red Army Choir is a choir that formed the official army choir of the former Soviet Unions Red Army. ...

Amateur choirs

• Cantata Academy Chorale
• Los Angeles Master Chorale
• Mormon Tabernacle Choir
• Norwegian Student Choral Society
• London Philharmonic Choir
• Elektra Women's Choir
• Laus Deo Choir
• Sura Chamber Choir

The Los Angeles Master Chorale is a famous amateur chorale in Los Angeles, California. ... The Mormon Tabernacle Choir in the Salt Lake Tabernacle. ... The Norwegian Student Choral Society (DnS) was founded in 1845. ... Laus Deo Choir, or Coro Laus Deo et matri dei (f. ... Sura Chamber Choir (Coro Surá in spanish) is a musical institution from Costa Rica, regarded as one of the most promising choirs to have emerged from Central America, having participated in concerts all over the world. ...

Children's choirs

Vienna Boys' Choir

• Wiener Sängerknaben (Vienna Boys' Choir) [2]
• Thomanerchor Leipzig
• Stuttgarter Hymnus-Chorknaben (Stuttgart Hymnus Boys' Choir)
• Knabenkantorei Basel (Basel Boys' Choir)
• Tapiola choir (external link)

Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... The Vienna Boys Choir (German: Wiener Sängerknaben) is a choir of boy sopranos based in Vienna. ... In 1900 the Stuttgart Hymnus Boys Choir was initiated by the swabian entrepreneur Paul von Lechler. ... The KKBs logo Formed in 1927, the Basel Boys Choir (Knabenkantorei Basel, KKB) celebrated 75 years of singing history in 2002. ...

Church choirs

• Choir of King's College, Cambridge (external link)
• Choir of St Paul's Cathedral, London

Full name The Kings College of Our Lady and St Nicholas Motto Veritas Et Utilitas Truth and usefulness Named after Henry VI Previous names - Established 1441 Sister College New College Provost Dame Judith Mayhew-Jonas Location Kings Parade Undergraduates 397 Graduates 239 Homepage Boatclub Kings College, Cambridge... St Pauls Cathedral is a cathedral on Ludgate Hill, in the City of London in London, and the seat of the Bishop of London. ... London (see also different names) is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ...

See also

• List of choral works
• Glee

This page is a list of musical works written for choir, sorted by composers birth date. ... A glee is a part song scored for at least three (normally male) and unaccompanied voices. ...

External links

• ChoralNet