Crossword clues for chorus
chorus
- Refrain from nude act with husband or American
- Alternative accepted by such poor singers
- Hard work curtailed American voices
- Difficult work cut down when given to American singers
- Musical group
- Glee club, say
- Song refrain
- Group of singers
- Large choir
- Verse follower
- Repeated song part
- Line for a Broadway show?
- Group that's very vocal?
- Group that blends well
- Glee club
- Feature of a classical Greek drama
- Commentators of old
- "Hallelujah" or "Anvil" follower
- Speak in unison
- Repeated part
- Kind of line
- Something to sing over and over
- "How does it feel ...," in Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone"
- The part of a song where a soloist is joined by a group of singers
- A body of dancers or singers who perform together
- Any utterance produced simultaneously by a group
- A company of actors who comment (by speaking or singing in unison) on the action in a classical Greek play
- A group of people assembled to sing together
- Singing group
- "A ___ Line"
- Broadway's "A ___ Line"
- Caught god's part in Sophocles play?
- What's repeated about sun god
- Singers in church or university society
- Refrain in Switzerland or America
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chorus \Cho"rus\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Chorused; p. pr. & vb.
n. Chorusing.]
To sing in chorus; to exclaim simultaneously.
--W. D.
Howells.
[1913 Webster] ||
Chorus \Cho"rus\, n.; pl. Choruses. [L., a dance in a ring, a dance accompanied with song; a chorus, a band of dancers and singers. Gr. ?. See Choir.]
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(Antiq.) A band of singers and dancers.
The Grecian tragedy was at first nothing but a chorus of singers.
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(Gr. Drama) A company of persons supposed to behold what passed in the acts of a tragedy, and to sing the sentiments which the events suggested in couplets or verses between the acts; also, that which was thus sung by the chorus.
What the lofty, grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic.
--Milton. An interpreter in a dumb show or play. [Obs.]
(Mus.) A company of singers singing in concert.
(Mus.) A composition of two or more parts, each of which is intended to be sung by a number of voices.
(Mus.) Parts of a song or hymn recurring at intervals, as at the end of stanzas; also, a company of singers who join with the singer or choir in singer or choir in singing such parts.
The simultaneous of a company in any noisy demonstration; as, a Chorus of shouts and catcalls.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, from Latin chorus "a dance in a circle, the persons singing and dancing, the chorus of a tragedy," from Greek khoros "band of dancers or singers, dance, dancing ground," perhaps from PIE *gher- "to grasp, enclose," if the original sense of the Greek word is "enclosed dancing floor." Extension from dance to voice is because Attic drama arose from tales inserted in the intervals of the dance. In Attic tragedy, the khoros (of 12 or 15 (tragic) or 24 (comedic) persons) gave expression, between the acts, to the moral and religious sentiments evoked by the actions of the play.\n\nWhen a Poet wished to bring out a piece, he asked a Chorus from the Archon, and the expenses, being great, were defrayed by some rich citizen (the khoregos): it was furnished by the Tribe and trained originally by the Poet himself" [Liddell & Scott]\nOriginally in English used in theatrical sense; meaning of "a choir" first attested 1650s. Meaning "the refrain of a song" (which the audience joins in singing) is 1590s. As a verb, 1703, from the noun. Chorus girl is 1894.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A group of singers and dancers in the religious festivals of ancient Greece 2 A group of people in a play or performance who recite together. 3 A group of singers; singing group who perform together. 4 A repeated part of a song, also called the '''refrain'''. 5 A setting or feature in electronic music that makes one voice sound like many. 6 (context figuratively English) A group of people or animals who make sounds together 7 The noise made by such a group. vb. 1 To echo a particular sentiment. 2 To sing the chorus.
WordNet
n. any utterance produced simultaneously by a group; "a chorus of boos"
a group of people assembled to sing together
the part of a song where a soloist is joined by a group of singers [syn: refrain]
a body of dancers or singers who perform together [syn: chorus line]
a company of actors who comment (by speaking or singing in unison) on the action in a classical Greek play [syn: Greek chorus]
v. utter in unison; "`yes,' the children chorused"
sing in a choir [syn: choir]
Wikipedia
Chorus, Erasure's fifth proper studio album, was released by Mute Records in the UK and Sire Records in the U.S. in 1991 (see 1991 in music); and on the short list of nominees for the 1992 Mercury Prize. In 1999, Ned Raggett ranked the album at number 45 in his list of "The Top 136 or So Albums of the Nineties".
Chorus may refer to:
"Chorus" is a song by Erasure which is the first single and title track to the duo's fifth studio album Chorus. It was released in 1991 by Mute Records in the UK and Sire Records in the U.S. Produced by Martyn Phillips and written by Erasure members Vince Clarke and Andy Bell, "Chorus" is an uptempo synthpop song featuring Clarke's signature electronic soundscapes and Phillips' pristine, computerized production.
Issued prior to the release of the Chorus album, the single returned Erasure to the upper-reaches of the UK singles chart, reaching number three. "Chorus" was also a success in Germany, where it peaked at number 17. The single became Erasure's first Billboard Hot 100 entry since "Stop!" in 1989, climbing to number 83. It was more successful on the U.S. Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, where it peaked at number 14.
Chorus is the second compilation album by the experimental music band Flying Saucer Attack. It collects tracks from singles, compilation cuts, and the entirety of a John Peel radio session.
Chorus was a 1974 Bengali film directed by noted Indian art film director Mrinal Sen. It was entered into the 9th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Silver Prize.
Chorus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Chorus is an album by German double bassist and composer Eberhard Weber featuring Jan Garbarek and Ralf-R. Hübner recorded in 1984 and released on the ECM label.
Chorus is a 2015 Canadian drama film written and directed by . It was screened in the Panorama section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival. The film centres on Christophe ( Sébastien Ricard) and Irène ( Fanny Mallette), a former married couple still struggling to cope with the murder of their son eight years earlier.
Usage examples of "chorus".
His requests for specific equipment were met with a chorus of ready responses, the combined harshness of half a dozen Niyyuuan voices all attempting to answer at once leaving him wishing that his first ingredient was a hearty dose of acetylsalicylic acid.
The Swiss and the Anabaptists added their voices to this chorus of bibliolatry.
One lad, who did not train in the set of Andy and his friends, insisted on joining in the chorus with one of the singers, and matters got to such a pass that the manager rang down the curtain and threatened to stop the performance unless the students behaved.
And in their effort to keep themselves from being engulfed in the apostacy of a great leader, the scientists, as by a unanimous chorus, announce that the scientific dogmas which enter more or less essentially into their atheistic conception of the universe, are nothing but surmises!
Dionysms the Areopagite, the emperor, graciously recalling the Greek origin of this saint, sent a chorus of Greek priests, and the Franks were entranced not merely by their vestments and painted tapers, but by their dramatic genuflections and the ensemble of bass and treble voices.
A chorus of crickets kicked off all around them, a trilling cacophony rising in an asynchronous wall of sound.
Hippolyte figuring in the bacchic dance in the midst of a chorus of joyous boon-companions, and thus proving to all eyes by his verve and his capers his complete cure?
Another door and I was in the backstage area, fighting my way through a pack of sweating, chattering chorus girls.
The Bajans danced feverishly to a chorus of drums that was unlike anything Isobel had ever heard.
When the first astonishing heads and busts from Ife and Benin were brought to Europe sixty years ago and were seen to be portraits, or very like portraits, they were greeted with a chorus of disbelief: surely they were Greek or Egyptian or even Portuguese, for Negroes had never done anything like that?
The fresh summer morning breathtakingly beautiful, but she barely noticed the pink blush of dawn or the riotous chorus of birdsong from the broadleaf maples lining the road.
Instantly the yellow-haired serfs in waiting, the Calmucks at the hall-door, and the half-witted dwarf who crawled around the table in his tow shirt, began laughing in chorus, as violently as they could.
The warrant was served upon Evan in his well-guarded hospital suite, with Cao and Ulanova serving as the Greek chorus.
As she helped Clubfoot sing the choruses, the white band thickened and thinned and thickened.
Mirandee and Clubfoot joined in, clear soprano and awkward bass, at chorus points that were not obvious.