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  Chorus America - Publications
Distributed to more than 4,000 choral leaders throughout North America, it features in-depth interviews and profiles, chorus news and activities, opinion and commentary, board leadership strategies, successful fundraising and marketing techniques, and advice on artistic issues.
Chorus America Business Members, Affiliate Organization Members, and Chorus Members are eligible for substantial discounts.
It is produced and distributed by Chorus America to music directors and conductors of member choruses and other individual members who request a subscription.
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  Welcome to Chorus Call, provider of audio, video and web-based conferencing.
Chorus Call also provides additional features for the audio conference such as question and answer sessions, voting and polling, digital recording, and more.
Chorus Call provides video conference types with many standard features such as site testing, lecture mode, standing reservations, and more.
Chorus Call also provides additional features for the video conference such as subconferencing, full conference monitoring, video conference recording, and more.
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  Chorus - LoveToKnow 1911
It is used of any organized body of singers, in opera, oratorio, cantata, andc., and, in the form "choir," of the trained body of singers of the musical portions of a religious service in a cathedral or church.
As applied to musical compositions, a "chorus" is a composition written in parts, each to be sung by groups of voices in a large body of singers, and differs from "glee" (q.v.), where each part is for a single voice.
It is interesting to note that Giraldus Cambrensis 5 mentions the chorus as one of the three instruments of Wales and Scotland, ascribing superior musical skill to the latter.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Chorus   (614 words)

  
  Chorus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
In popular music, chorus is used to mean the refrain of a song, which often sharply contrasts the verse melodically, rhythmically, and harmonically, and assumes a higher level of dynamics and activity, often with added instrumentation.
Chorus form, or strophic form, is a sectional and/or additive way of structuring a piece of music based on the repetition of one formal section or block played repeatedly.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chorus   (297 words)

  
 The Chorus
The dialect of the Chorus which persisted was Doric--but a conventional Doric, and not the living patois; just as the Coptic prayers are embalmed in a tongue the very meaning of which is sealed even for the priests who read the liturgy.
When that was a woman, the Chorus were dressed as women, except in the "Antigone," where splendid isolation sets the trials of the Protagonist against the background of stupendous grief.
The Chorus has been censured as an absurdity, inasmuch as, representing a crowd, it shows a secret transaction of the soul being carried on before the public--an objection which, of course, might be applied to the condemnation of the whole Tragic Drama, whereby the inmost agonies of contending souls are laid bare to crowded benches.
www.theatrehistory.com /ancient/chorus001.html   (1288 words)

  
 Greek chorus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The leader of the chorus interacted with the characters in the play, and spoke for the general population (the play's public opinion).
The whole chorus tried to stay in rhythm with each other so they could be viewed as one entity rather than separate entities.
The chorus offered background and summary information to help the audience follow the performance, commented on main themes, and showed how an ideal audience might react to the drama as it was presented.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greek_chorus   (171 words)

  
 chorus@Everything2.com
The Chorus were made up of amateur actors as opposed to the other actors in the plays who were semi-professional (there was only about 3 or 4 main actors in Greek plays since they used masks).
The leader of the Chorus was called the Koryphaiois and it was this person which participated with the other actors in the play most of the time.
The Chorus was the most expensive part of the play a lot of the time since there were so many actors expecting to be paid and needed a fair amount of training to teach them the lines/songs and dances and to get them all moving as one.
everything2.com /index.pl?node=Chorus   (708 words)

  
 Chorus
Chorus is famous as the home of the sole extant clade of chlorine-breathing sapients, the Jade Chime Singers.
Chorus is a young world in the context of Terragen civilization, and as yet there are few truly important dates in its history.
Chorus is not, and apparently does not presently plan to be, on the wormhole network.
www.orionsarm.com /worlds/Chorus.html   (6811 words)

  
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The Houston Symphony Chorus, the official choral unit of the Houston Symphony, is led by Dr.
It is a chorus of volunteer singer/musicians who are committed to rehearsing and performing the choral-orchestral repertory at the highest level of choral artistry.
Members of the Houston Symphony Chorus are experienced choral singers from all walks of life and all parts of the greater Houston area who are brought together by their appreciation of great music.
www.houstonsymphony.org /about/chorus.aspx   (304 words)

  
 NPWRC :: Checklist of Amphibian Species and Identification Guide
The Boreal Chorus Frog is one of the earliest amphibians to emerge.
The legs of the Western Chorus Frog are longer and the lower leg segment (below the knee) is longer in relation to the rest of the leg than in the Boreal Chorus Frog.
The Western Chorus Frog is also much more likely to have a solid stripe down the middle of its back, but the stripes may not be visible as in the photo to the upper right.
www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/herps/amphibid/species/chorus.htm   (611 words)

  
 The Cleveland Orchestra
The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus is one of the few professionally-trained, all-volunteer choruses sponsored by an American orchestra.
Comprised of members of The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus and a group of regular "summer" singers from northeastern Ohio, the ensemble participates in several concerts each season at Blossom, joins forces with the winter chorus for appearances at Chautauqua, and often performs with the Orchestra during the annual free Fourth of July concert in downtown Cleveland.
In 1991, The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Chorus was founded to help raise awareness of choral music-making in the schools of northeastern Ohio and to encourage more students to continue their choral activities through college and into adulthood.
www.clevelandorchestra.com /html/about/Choruses.asp   (763 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - chorus, in Greek drama (Theater) - Encyclopedia
Originally the chorus seems to have arisen from the singing of the dithyramb, and the dithyrambic chorus allegedly became a true dramatic chorus when Thespis in the 6th cent.
First the chorus as a participating actor tied the histrionic interludes together; later, as a narrator, it commented on the action and divided it, creating acts.
The chorus had ceased to play a vital part in the drama; Euripides assigned to it lyrics not necessarily integrated with the action.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/chorusGr.html   (260 words)

  
 Sweetwater inSync
In the technology discourse a chorus is also an effect that modifies the sound of a single instrument to simulate a group of the same instruments.
The subjective effect of a real chorus is caused by the fact that each of the sounds being mixed together have different frequencies and/or timbres.
The synthetic chorus effect was first obtained by subjecting the sound to a series of very short time delays and mixing them.
www.sweetwater.com /insync/word.php?find=chorus   (346 words)

  
 UConn Chorus Website - CHORUS.UCONN.EDU   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
University Festival Chorus is the largest mixed choral ensemble of the University, numbering approximately over 100 singers.
The Festival Chorus is the featured chorus for the annual "Messiah Sing" each December.
Men's Chorus consists of all the men enrolled in Festival Chorus and is becoming recognized as one of America's finer collegiate choral ensembles specializing in the repertory for male chorus.
chorus.uconn.edu /html/aboutus.htm   (448 words)

  
 Manchester University Chorus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Manchester University Chorus was founded in 1936 and continues today with the same mission with which it began.
The Chorus aims to bring the joy of choral singing to all - irrespective of age or experience.
The Chorus is open to all levels of ability and the emphasis is on enjoying the unique experience of singing harmony with others.
orgs.man.ac.uk /chorus   (212 words)

  
 Healdsburg Community Chorus Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Neighbors convinced her to try the chorus, and she just completed her first, but not last, season with the chorus.
Other than a brief taste of chorus singing in junior high school, he's spent his life focused on 70-hour workweeks and every sport imaginable in his few spare hours.
Val joined the chorus first, but Neil didn't need much coaxing to come along, With two businesses and toddler/future singer Hannah Mae to tend to, the chorus represents an opportunity for them to spend time together on a regular basis.
www.sonic.net /~dsscha/HCC   (1177 words)

  
 Chorus strikes a tune, ground on campus
The chorus consists of men from all walks of life who have come together in the spirit of cooperation and friendship to create art and entertainment through music.
Membership in the USC Men's Chorus is open to the entire USC community--from undergraduates and graduates to staff and faculty--but is limited to males.
Jason Beeber, president of the chorus, said that when the group began, USC did not have an all-male chorus, although this type of ensemble is fairly common at large universities.
www.usc.edu /student-affairs/dt/V130/N28/02-chorus.28d.html   (715 words)

  
 comp.os.chorus Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Keywords: CHORUS Sender: usenet@comp.lancs.ac.uk Reply-To: pr@comp.lancs.ac.uk Cc: Christian.Bac@int-evry.fr Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 14:00:00 GMT Maintainer: "Philippe Robin" Posting-Frequency: quarterly Archive-name: chorus-faq Last-modified: 1998/02/09 Revision: 1.32 Change of administrator and location: Christian Bac (INT Evry, France) kindly agreed to continue the administration of the newsgroup.
The paper "Cohabitation and Cooperation of Chorus and MacOS", by Christian Bac and Edmond Garnier, was presented at the Usenix Symposium on Microkernels and Other Kernel Architectures in Sep 93 in San Diego.
Jonathan Walpole supervised a port of the CHORUS v3.3 nucleus to the Hewlett-Packard 9000/834 workstation from late 1990 to mid-1991.
www.faqs.org /faqs/chorus-faq   (5095 words)

  
 The Helsinki University Chorus/Choir (Ylioppilaskunnan Laulajat) in Cincinnati 1953   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The recordings were made during the stay of the chorus in Cincinnati on the 20th and 21st of November 1953, nearly at the end of the tour.
The chorus was positioned close to the backwall on the stage of Cincinnati's Music Hall.
The chorus as it is today has a vast repertory and made many CD-recordings but I only could discover "Sydämeni Laulu", Turunen's beautifull "Karjalan Kunailla" and Palmgren's sweet "Tuutulaulu" (Lulleby) on the Compact Disc recordings.
www.soundfountain.com /remyl.html   (1115 words)

  
 Chorus coaches lead way to improved singing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
While the chorus advanced, it did not achieve consistent success—although the members did find more enjoyment in their performance, and did a better job of entertaining an audience.
In December 1996, the chapter officers met to create a plan for 1997—a plan intended to bring the chorus to a performance level that would be good enough to contend seriously for the right to represent SLD in international competition.
The chapter officers agreed that the members of the chorus should be apprised of the performance goals, and that, to be effective, the information should come from the administrative side.
www.spebsqsa.org /web/groups/public/documents/pages/pub_id_051987.hcsp   (1159 words)

  
 Harmony Central®: Effects Explained: Chorus
Just as a chorus is a group of singers, the chorus effect can make a single instrument sound like there are actually several instruments being played.
The amount of pitch modulation introduced by the chorus is related to how quickly the LFO waveform changes - the steepest portions on the waveform produce a large amount of pitch modulation, while the relatively flat portions have very little or no effect on the pitch.
Note that in a multi-voice chorus (where each voice is monophonic), you can effectively create a stereo chorus simply by panning the voices away from the center of the mix.
www.harmony-central.com /Effects/Articles/Chorus   (1863 words)

  
 Chorus Boston
Chorus Boston is an amateur international choral group whose goal is to enjoy singing together while striving to attain a high level of musical performance.
In addition to two regular concerts each year, the chorus also has participated in charitable community concerts, introducing Japanese culture to a wide range of audiences.
Its winter concert in 2003 established a new precedent by forming a chamber orchestra that performed together with the chorus.
members.aol.com /chorusboston   (256 words)

  
 The Classical Greek Chorus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Ranging in number from 50 in the time of Thespis to 15 in later classical Greek drama, the chorus consisted of Athenian citizens and were not professional actors.
Nietzsche suggests that it was the rhythmic dance and chants of the chorus, positioned always to mediate the physical space separating audience and actor, that evoked the visionary experience that was the very essence of tragedy.
Nietzsche argues that the chorus is perhaps the fundamental mechanism of the tragic experience.
www.selu.edu /Academics/Faculty/jwiemelt/classes/engl230/chorus.htm   (229 words)

  
 The CDWI Program   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Chorus Directors Workshop Intensive (CDWI) program is the single most measurably successful program for Directors every offered by the Society.
Participation in each workshop is limited to 5 chorus directors meeting with 2 Society Trainers.
In the afternoon session, a live chorus is brought in and each Director gets to practice the skills he has identified while being video taped and coached by the trainers.
www.spebsqsa.org /web/groups/public/documents/pages/pub_id_038229.hcsp   (264 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Chorus: Music: Erasure   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Chorus is the one for non-fans as it is more mature dance music.
When Erasure released "Chorus" in 1991, they were the number one band in the UK and one of the most successful synth pop groups of the era.
"Chorus" was a synth-lover's delight; a pure analog aural feast for the ears.
www.amazon.com /Chorus-Erasure/dp/B000002LQJ   (1381 words)

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