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as in hymn
a religious song
practiced a chorale to perform in church
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Recent Examples of chorale
Synchronized blinking faded when the researchers sped up the Bach chorales to 120 beats per minute.
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Jesse Greenspan,
Scientific American,
11 Mar. 2026
Grymes reconstructed those works and arranged other popular war songs for the chorale to perform.
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Liz Rothaus Bertrand,
Charlotte Observer,
27 Jan. 2026
Meyers, performed works by Bach, Morten Lauridsen and Eric Whitacre alongside Grant Gershon, the Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, and the chorale’s members.
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Camelia Heins,
Daily News,
8 Jan. 2026
This will be a full live production of Peter Rothstein’s a cappella chorale piece, offered as an add-on to the Playhouse on Park season subscription.
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Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
20 Aug. 2025
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Jesse Greenspan,
Scientific American,
11 Mar. 2026
Grymes reconstructed those works and arranged other popular war songs for the chorale to perform.
—
Liz Rothaus Bertrand,
Charlotte Observer,
27 Jan. 2026
Meyers, performed works by Bach, Morten Lauridsen and Eric Whitacre alongside Grant Gershon, the Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, and the chorale’s members.
—
Camelia Heins,
Daily News,
8 Jan. 2026
This will be a full live production of Peter Rothstein’s a cappella chorale piece, offered as an add-on to the Playhouse on Park season subscription.
—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
20 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chorale
Noun
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On this particular afternoon, worship began with an opening hymn that Brown led from the back, a one-woman choir.
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Many American poets have written hymns and howls, declarations and outcries for this country that brims with so many people, and so many hopes, from all over the world.
Noun
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Rose, who put together the flash choir just a few weeks earlier, stepped off the stage to join them.
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Eddie, a mechanic, was also a deacon at the church, an usher and a member of the choir, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
Noun
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Meanwhile, singing anthems at England national team matches is nothing new for English supporters.
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As the anthems played ahead of Curaçao’s first-ever World Cup match, Advocaat stood on the touchline and wiped away tears.
Noun
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Foster effectively invented the idea of a professional songwriter; founded the American songbook and pioneered the now-standard verse-chorus structure; and inspired the intellectual-property law of music.
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Paired with bubbly disco grooves and chant-along choruses, the band became gay icons overnight.
Noun
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Take The Music Lesson, a study of a young woman playing the virginal, closely watched by a gentleman, which Graham-Dixon reads as a depiction of Collegiants chastely performing and singing psalms.
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Over the course of Gregory Orr’s long career, his poems have become increasingly incantatory, more and more like chants or psalms, repeating, reformulating, reaching for the edges of the same rich metaphors.
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“Chorale.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chorale. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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