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Bishop in choir dress with train Choir dress of a Cistercian nun: a long white cowl Norbertine abbot in white prelate choir dress, 18th century Monsignor Herrincx in Franciscan brown prelate choir dress Benedictine Abbot Schober in black prelate choir dress and black fur cappa magna Roman Catholic secular canons in choir dress: cassock, rochet, mozzetta, and pectoral cross on chain.
The place where the singers are based is sometimes called the ritual choir, as opposed to the architectural choir or constructional choir. [ 4 ] The back-choir or retroquire is a space behind the high altar in the choir of a church, in which there may be a small altar standing back to back with the other.
A choir (/ ˈ k w aɪər / KWIRE), also known as a chorale or chorus (from Latin chorus, meaning 'a dance in a circle') is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform or in other words is the music performed by the ensemble.
A large (or "deep") chancel made most sense in monasteries and cathedrals where there was a large number of singing clergy and boys from a choir school to occupy the choir. In many orders "choir monk" was a term used to distinguish the educated monks who had taken full vows, or were training to do so, from another class, called "lay brothers ...
An oratorio (Italian pronunciation: [oraˈtɔːrjo]) is a musical composition with dramatic or narrative text for choir, soloists and orchestra or other ensemble. [1] Similar to opera, an oratorio includes the use of a choir, soloists, an instrumental ensemble, various distinguishable characters (e.g. soloists), and arias.
It has also come to be used in churches of various other cultural traditions (especially within Pentecostalism) and, via the gospel choir phenomenon spearheaded by Thomas Dorsey, has become a form of musical devotion worldwide. [6] Southern Afroamerican gospel groups used all–male, tenor–lead–baritone–bass quartets.
The choir was considered an official liturgical duty reserved to clergy, so women were not allowed to sing in the Schola Cantorum or other choirs except in convents where women were permitted to sing the Office and the parts of the Mass pertaining to the choir as a function of their consecrated life. [51] Chant was normally sung in unison.
An Anglican choir typically uses "SATB" voices (soprano or treble, alto or counter-tenor, tenor, and bass), though in many works some or all of these voices are divided into two for part or all of the piece; in this case the two halves of the choir (one on each side of the aisle) are traditionally named decani and cantoris which sing ...