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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
choirmaster
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Her choirmaster said her voice, now a low alto, was just too low.
▪ Mozart had become acquainted with the choirmaster there, Anton Stoll, for whom he wrote the exquisite motet Ave verum corpus.
▪ The choirmaster was then arrested but has not yet been charged.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
choirmaster

choirmaster \choir"mas*ter\ n. the musical director of a choir.

Syn: precentor, cantor.

Wiktionary
choirmaster

n. the musical director of a choir, who conducts performances and supervises rehearsal

WordNet
choirmaster

n. the musical director of a choir [syn: precentor, cantor]

Usage examples of "choirmaster".

Lewis Merrill, the pastor at the Congregational Church, and my mother's choirmaster, had convinced my grandparents that my mother's singing voice was truly worthy of professional training.

DeCourcy Parry, the organist and choirmaster, and the dog was Father Ninian Hobbes, who knew nothing about music and had a tin ear, but who sensed a splendour in Parry's services that was appropriate to his ideas of Divine worship.

Parry was free to exhort, signal, and do all that a choirmaster must do, without being seen.

A dedicated choirmaster who was also a voice coach soon convinced her that she was born to sing backup, not solo, but he changed her life when he asked, 'What do you want to sing for anyway, Jillian, when you've got such a big talent for making people laugh?

A dedicated choirmaster – who was also a voice coach – soon convinced her that she was born to sing backup, not solo, but he changed her life when he asked, 'What do you want to sing for anyway, Jillian, when you've got such a big talent for making people laugh?

The choirmaster ran back and forth, bleating pathetically, ignored by all.

When Crow Jane finally let them go, they headed immediately for the private room, huddling together for protection, followed by a relieved but equally shaken choirmaster, who made the sign of the cross at Crow Jane's back when he thought she wasn't looking.

Music had been one of the few pleasures in the orphanage, and had been practiced under the demanding yet patient choirmaster from the nearby church.

Above all they were the copyists of the choirmasters and made endless parts of the motets of Morales and Vittoria.

The choirmaster in Misky Bay pled guilty on Monday to sexual assault and molestation of more than a hundred boys over the past twelve years.