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	Greek chorus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the second generation of Athenian tragedy the chorus often had a more substantial role in the narrative; in Euripedes's Bacchae, for example, the chorus, representing the frenzied female worshippers of Dionysus becomes a central character in itself.
		The Sophoclean chorus was divided into two sub-choruses of 6 (hemichoria) and a leader (koryphaios); the number of actors increased from two to three.
		The leader of the chorus interacted with the characters in the play, and spoke for the general population (the play's public opinion).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greek_chorus (393 words)

	Encyclopedia: Chorus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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.
		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.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Chorus (967 words)

	The Chorus
		The mind of the Greek was not shadow-haunted, any more than the mind of the Elizabethan Englishman; yet the circumstances and the outlook of their times gave to them both a pensive tendency.
		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 Greek Tragic stage was the secondary school of applied ethics, the platform of history's vindication.
	www.theatrehistory.com /ancient/chorus001.html (1288 words)

	ClSt 200 - Greek Tragedy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Choral songs were an early Greek performative art, in which a large group of people, the chorus (in Greek, literally = "dance"), would dance and sing raucous songs in honor of a god.
		The chorus did not use the altar per se during performance; instead, the altar acted as a focal point around which the chorus danced and sang.
		As the prominence of the chorus diminished, the orchestra got smaller and smaller; late Greek and Roman theaters often reduced the orchestra to a semi-circle.
	www.classics.upenn.edu /myth/tragedy/theater.php (1055 words)

	Greek chorus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In tragic play s of Ancient Greece, the chorus was, originally, made of 13 singing and dancing members.
		Capital City Chorus This award-winning chorus from Sweet Adelines International Region 4 is the 2000 Buckeye Invitational Chorus Grand Champion.
		Chorus of the Atlantic Main chorus of the Red Bank, New Jersey chapter of SPEBSQSA.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Greek_chorus.html (525 words)

	Greek theatre
		Greek theatre or Greek Drama is a theatrical tradition that flourished in ancient Greece between c.
		A Greek theater building, or theatron, was a large open-air structure consisting of three parts: the orchestra, the skene, and the audience.
		Greek theatres were not enclosed; the audience could see each other and the surrounding countryside as well as the actors and chorus.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/LX/GreekTheater.html (1502 words)

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		The chorus sympathized with victims, reinforced facts, separated episodes, and often served as spokespeople for the conservative members of the community.
		Chorus members were unpaid volunteers doing their civic duty.
		The purpose of the chorus was to bridge the gap between the audience and the players and to intensify the emotion.
	www.geocities.com /Shalyndria13/greek.htm (1199 words)

	Greek Theatre Index
		The Chorus - An essay on the role of the Chorus in Greek drama.
		Greek Dramatic Criticism - An overview of dramatic criticism in ancient Greece.
		Records and Preservation of Greek Plays - The archons of Athens kept records of the contests at both the city festivals, giving the names of the choregoi (citizens appointed to defray part of the expense of the production), the poet-teachers (called didascaloi), the actors, plays, and victors in the contests.
	www.theatrehistory.com /ancient/greek.html (485 words)

	Free-Essays.us - The Greek Chorus
		Greek tragedy and comedy originated with the chorus, the most important part of the performance space was the orchestra, which means 'a place for dancing' (orchesis).
		A typical tragic Greek chorus was a group of some twelve to fifteen masked men just about to enter military service after some years of training (Athenians were taught to sing and dance from a very early age.) An old comedic chorus consisted of up to twenty four men.
		The chorus both commented on the events and participated in them, so that it was both involved in the action and detached from it.
	www.free-essays.us /dbase/d9/ykd220.shtml (527 words)

	Chorus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		refrain or chorus of a song, pre-chorus may refer to bridge (music)
		chorus effect, the perception of similar sounds from multiple sources as a single, richer sound; signal processors design to simulate the effect
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chorus (135 words)

	about the chorus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Being present in Greek church services and village celebrations alerted me to the power of choral performance in general -- being amongst a group of people dancing and singing the same thing at the same time gives one a spiritual lift which is hard to describe.
		However, one of the ways in which Greek tragic choruses differ from other choruses is that many of the songs and dances in tragedy are in fact syntheses of dances and rhythms from choral performances taking place elsewhere in the community on different religious occasions.
		We know that ancient Greek dance in tragedy and comedy was also elaborately patterned and that it was largely mimetic (it imitated concrete actions of animals or plants or human qualities).
	www.thiasos.co.uk /pages/aboutchorus.htm (2776 words)

	The Classical Greek Chorus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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)

	Guardian Unlimited Travel \| Countries \| Greek chorus
		Syros is probably not the first Greek island you would think of visiting; the administrative capital of the Cyclades, it is a working island and doesn't have the immediate attractions of Rhodes, Crete or Corfu.
		Colonised by the Franks in 1207, Syros was a Catholic island until the arrival of Orthodox refugees from the Greek war of independence.
		H ermoupolis can also claim to be one of the homes of Rembetika, the Greek underground music that was popular in the early 20th century and has recently been championed by Alex Kapranos, lead singer of Franz Ferdinand.
	travel.guardian.co.uk /countries/story/0,7451,1519180,00.html (1015 words)

	Mighty Aphrodite : As Greek as modern movies get!
		The director does stray away from the original Greek tradition by giving each individual chorus member their own chance for self expression in the ending scene that proves to be an amusing use of the chorus in Mighty Aphrodite.
		The chorus is filmed in an ancient Greek theater in Italy which adds to the effect of the chorus.
		It is also nice that Lenny sometimes appears in the Greek theater with the chorus to prevent from a total separation of the chorus and the rest of the film.
	people.bu.edu /ffurnari/aphrodit.htm (1241 words)

	A reader responds to The Greek Chorus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		What your piece seems to be saying is that despite the chorus, with its yapping doubts and inner conflicts, the real hero moves ahead, and accepts his tragic lumps.
		Given a tragic choice, that is to say, standing at a cross roads where both roads lead into the shadows, the chorus wails, the hero acts, takes responsibility for the inevitable transgressions, and suffers.
		After the fact, the Chorus may come on stage to haul off the bodies and sum up, but that is of no use to the hero, who must act and suffer.
	www.tpi.org /karoffcorner/greekchorus/reader_responds_to_greek_chorus.htm (481 words)

	ARTSEDGE: Greek Theater
		Greece reached the pinnacle of its civilization around the 5th century B.C. The Greek culture and civilization was very rich, not just in commerce and possessions, but also in spirit, artistic accomplishments, literary endeavors, and life in general.
		Chorus members were very versatile as actors, singers, and dancers.
		The most famous Greek theater, and most likely the first theater in the world, is the large theater of Dionysus on the lower slopes of the Acropolis.
	artsedge.kennedy-center.org /content/3627 (1701 words)

	Of Passion And Profession—Dionysus, Apollo, And The Greek Chorus In New York
		Given the terraced structure of the Greek theater, rising in concentric arcs, each spectator could quite literally survey the entire cultural world about him and imagine himself, in the fullness of seeing, as a chorist.
		As described by Nietzsche, the early Greek dramas balanced the frenetic energy of Dionysian expression with the Apollonian attention to form and function.
		Tuesday the chorus was absorbed in the Dyonisian delights of Richard Pilbrow, chairman of Theatre Projects Consultants, Inc., and David McCollum of the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in St. Paul, as they talked about the future of creativity in the arts.
	www.iaam.org /Facility_manager/Pages/2002_May_Jun/Feature_7.htm (954 words)

	chorus. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
		The group in a classical Greek drama whose songs and dances present an exposition of or, in later tradition, a disengaged commentary on the action.
		The portion of a classical Greek drama consisting of choric dance and song.
		A group or performer in a modern drama serving a purpose similar to the Greek chorus.
	www.bartleby.com /61/86/C0328600.html (330 words)

	chorus, in Greek drama
		Originally the chorus seems to have arisen from the singing of the
		Washington's Greek Chorus; In 'Medea' et al., Tragedy of Epic Proportions
		Greek Cadastre : GIS and Photogrammetry in Chorus.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/ent/A0812059.html (211 words)

	(This scene is for the Greek Chorus)
		Female Greek Chorus: (As Mother) Well, Mama, after all, you were a child bride when Big Papa came and got you—you were a married woman and you still believed in Santa Claus.
		Male Greek Chorus: (As Grandfather to Li'l Bit)—(I picked your grandmother out of that herd of sisters just like a lion chooses the gazelle—the plump, slow, flaky gazelle dawdling at the edge of the herd—your sisters were too smart and too fast and too scrawny—
		Female Greek Chorus: (As Mother) They'd still be crouched on their haunches over a fire in a cave if we hadn't cleaned them up!
	www.nd.edu /~warons/HILTD/GC.html (513 words)

	Memorable Quotes from Mighty Aphrodite (1995) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Greek Chorus: Of all human weaknesses, obsession is the most dangerous, and the silliest!
		Greek Chorus Leader: The handicapped are always cranky.
		Greek Chorus: With the passage of time, even the strongest bonds become fragile!
	menace.imdb.com /title/tt0113819/quotes (442 words)

	Hellenic Forums Omogenia - YASOU - Hellenism: Shakespeare's Greek Chorus
		Bearing Greek drama to the Greeks is like cooking a Wolfgang Puck recipe for Wolfgang Puck.
		Kahn's notion was to shift the setting to ancient Africa and draw parallels between Greek and sub-Saharan cultures by showcasing the movement, music and ritual in the plays.
		That the Greeks had asked for this "Oedipus" was a matter of special pride to these actors, who stand, as a result, to garner more attention in Europe for their work in this project than they did during its U.S. run.
	www.omogenia.com /forums/showthreaded.php/Number/10794 (1323 words)

	A Chorus Line
		Instead, the dancers become a limp Greek chorus for the dead love affair between a choreographer, Zach (a pre-Gordon Gekko Michael Douglas) and his old flame, Cassie (Alyson Reed) the star dancer.
		Zach is holding try-outs for a new Broadway musical and, as armies of dancers are brought on stage to audition for Zach, he sits in the darkened recesses of the theater, puffing on a cigarette, as he winnows out hopeful dancers who want to become part of the chorus line for Zach's new show.
		Finally, Zach has reduced the dancers to 16 men and women, and he asks each of them to step to the footlights and tell him about their lives and their dreams.
	www.djangomusic.com /item_movie.asp?id=V+++++9456&afid=DEB0040131517 (218 words)

	Washington's Greek Chorus
		Washington is awash in Greek tragedy -- and we do not refer to that contentious amphitheater of the free world, Capitol Hill.
		The Royal Shakespeare Company's "Hecuba" plays at the Kennedy Center through Sunday, Synetic Theater's "Jason and the Argonauts" runs through June 25 at the Rosslyn Spectrum, and Washington Shakespeare Company's "Medea" is at the Clark Street Playhouse through July 3.
		In a way, Synetic's "Jason" is the prequel to "Medea." It begins with the "barbarian" sorceress helping Greek adventurer Jason (Greg Marzullo) abscond with the Golden Fleece, followed by their passionate elopement, his betrayal in Corinth and her murder of their children.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/06/AR2005060601574_pf.html (986 words)

	Hakmao: Greek chorus
		One of the frequent laments we hear from the buffoons in silly masks who make up the Greek chorus of the pseudo-left (and their co-excursionists) sounds rather like this:
		The PUK and the Iraqi Communist Party and all of the other progressive, secular groups working for democracy will lose.
		The worldview of Kissinger and Associates will have prevailed for the moment, as they lurk there in the back row of the chorus - grinning behind their masks.
	blog.hakmao.com /archives/000374.html (397 words)

	Halfbakery: Rent-a-Greek Chorus
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		I've always thought that it would be kind of cool to be able to rent a group of singers for the day, who would function as sort of a greek chorus, giving advice, backing up your statements, answering questions...all done in song.
		I know that this is not the traditional function of a greek chorus, but you get the idea.
	www.halfbakery.com /idea/Rent-a-Greek_20Chorus (187 words)

	Mighty Aphrodite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lenny is determined to turn her life around--but at the same time is forced to examine his own marriage, which is failing.
		Allen intersperses New York City vignettes with hysterical scenes of a Greek chorus, led by F. Murray Abraham, chiming in about Lenny's life, comparing it to Greek drama, and breaking out into song-and-dance numbers.
		The scenes in which the two worlds meet--both in New York and in the Greek theater, are wonderfully witty and incisive.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/mighty_aphrodite/about.php (794 words)

	AllRefer.com - chorus, in Greek drama (Theater) - Encyclopedia
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		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.
		More articles from AllRefer Reference on chorus, in Greek drama
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/chorusGr.html (260 words)

	The Children's Theatre presents Aesop's Fables - Don't miss giant puppets and a Greek chorus! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		CINCINNATI, OH — The Children's Theatre continues its 81st season in March with Aesop's Fables which features giant puppets and a Greek chorus.
		With the help of a Greek chorus made up of fellow statues, Aesop shares his great, timeless lessons, with a modern and sometimes musical flair.
		As you might remember, a fable is a short story or poem that teaches a lesson or moral.
	www.thechildrenstheatre.com /news/2005_0113.html (491 words)

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