chorale

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• In addition to his work at WOI Radio, Compton sings in his church choir, assists with Iowa State's Chamber Singers student chorale and serves as organizer/agent for an a cappella men's vocal group, The Music Men.
• Together the chorale perform a wide repertoire of classical music from Bach, Handel and Vivaldi as well as traditional spiritual and Filipino pieces, several a cappella works and well known songs of praise.
• Being raised in a Lutheran tradition, my vocal writing is largely chorale style homophony contrasting with traditional contrapuntal textures.
• The fourth movement, based on the second verse of the chorale, is written in a trio sonata-like texture for the tenors of the chorus, oboe da caccia, and continuo. Archive 2008-11-01
• I suspect that many more organ chorales were accompaniments for hymn-singing than we now appreciate: hymn books with melody were rare, and somehow the organist had to play and harmonise the tune.
• A slow, sombre chorale underpins intricate polyphonies woven by the oboe and other woodwinds. Times, Sunday Times
• Bach had an unparalleled talent for assimilating disparate influences into an architecturally harmonious whole at a time when an unprecedented number of disparate influences — Renaissance polyphony, Lutheran chorale, Italian monody, French dance music, you name it — was ripe for assimilation. Fame, it's not your brain, it's just the flame that burns your change
• The religious Fourth Symphony synchretizes Gregorian and Orthodox chants, Lutheran chorales, and Jewish cantillation.
• Masur simply, a bit austerely intoned the opening chorale of the Adagio, creating relief for the violins to effortlessly make their line in allargando unison to follow it very compellingly.
• It was to Bach's advantage that this chorale was harmonised at the end of Cantata 60 (a dialogue between Hope and Fear commented on by Christ) with a daring remarkable even for Bach.