from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun The director of a group of church singers.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun The trainer or leader of a choir or chorus; a kapellmeister, precentor, or cantor. Sometimes the offices of choirmaster and organist are separate, sometimes united.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun the musical director of a choir.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun the musicaldirector of a choir, who conductsperformances and supervisesrehearsal
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun the musical director of a choir
Etymologies
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A calque of German Chormeister.
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Their choirmaster is Karen Burke, a graduate of McMaster University and the Royal Conservatory of Music and Director of Music at Banfield Memorial Church.
From the worldly dean to the idealistic choirmaster, everybody wants the best for the cathedral, the good of which becomes the justification for whatever they want to do.
The Catholic Church does not come off well: Moses's life is ruined by a despicable priest, an ambitious abbot and a creepy choirmaster before he's saved by two gay monks, a dwarf and a strong-willed woman who loves him.
There are two lead choirs: bunches of monks gathered in columns around the lectern of each transept, with the choirmaster who intones the strophe and the choir that catches the tune and makes it blossom in melodies and chords.
The Catholic Church does not come off well: Moses's life is ruined by a despicable priest, an ambitious abbot and a creepy choirmaster before he's saved by two gay monks, a dwarf and a strong-willed woman who loves him.
I also remember my choirmaster telling me about the way "Messiah" used to be performed: When Handel wrote the cantata back in the 1700s, pitch took a slightly different form than it does today.
I also remember my choirmaster telling me about the way "Messiah" used to be performed: When Handel wrote the cantata back in the 1700s, pitch took a slightly different form than it does today.
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