Sentence examples for alternating choir from inspiring English sources

Responsory, also called respond, plainchant melody and text originally sung responsorially i.e., by alternating choir and soloist or soloists.

The melodic tropes were normally broken into phrases that were repeated in performance (as aa, bb, cc,…) by alternating choirs.

Antiphon, in Roman Catholic liturgical music, chant melody and text sung before and after a psalm verse, originally by alternating choirs (antiphonal singing).

The antiphonal singing of psalms occurred both in ancient Hebrew and early Christian liturgies; alternating choirs would sing e.g., half lines of psalm verses.

These early services for choir and organ were followed by "verse services," in which solo voices played an important part, combining or alternating with the choir.

As medieval plainchant developed, more elaborate refrains (R) were sung by a choir alternating with soloists singing psalm verses (V), producing a musical form R V1 R V2…R.

During the special Mass, the relics will be on display in the cathedral's baptistery and the Sistine Chapel Choir will alternate with the cathedral choir in performing liturgical songs.

10.10pm A Tibetan horn sounds, and the boys' choir begins to sing a Kyrie, alternating with a grown-up choir at the other end of the church.

Estelí Gomez's clear, bright voice alternated with the choir in "Iesu Dulcissime," also by an anonymous author.

Dance, operatic vocal writing and madrigals for a six-voice choir alternate in a series of 17 short scenes lasting 70 minutes.

It's usually alternating from one side of the choir to the other, so it's kind of a dialogue.