Word Confusion: Choral versus Chorale

Plural: chorales

• Engaged in or concerned with singing
• Containing a chorus or a choir

[US] A choir or choral society

The music flows along quite beautifully and the choral and solo singing parts are also very well done.

Contrast was provided by alternating choral chant with passages sung by soloists.

Classical western singing is not relegated to opera alone, there is choral and gospel singing too.

Our last concert was a program bursting with superb concert band, symphonic, jazz, and choral sounds.

The special advent choral concert will be conducted by Peter Frost and includes sacred and secular music from early and modern composers.

As soon as I was in high school, I could sing in a special chorus in addition to having my daily choral class.

In 1955, he worked as a rehearsal pianist and choral conductor at the Teatro Colon, the city’s opera house.

In their tenderness and intimacy, their heartfelt experience of Jesus’ final hours, and their prayerful, awestruck participation in the mercy poured out in him, the chorales and choruses became prayer.

The Organ Sonata #2 (for a burial ceremony) is an imposing work based on church chorales, but interspersed with moments of extreme romantic fervor.

You asked me if I could perhaps play at the beginning of the service — in this instance — the first of Bach’s Advent chorales.

Although a fugue, it moves very much like a chorale.

Depending on the student’s learning style, a teacher might ask a student to play the chord while naming the next chord in the chorale.

As the group’s mission statement states, “the Eastern Youth Chorale is a movement of young people pursuing musical excellence”, and their aim is to groom young singers for the adult chorale.

One chorister, who had previously sung in both the choir and the chorale formed a point of connection between groups, but there was little, if any, direct interaction.