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Precentor :: Precentor (n.) A leader of a choir; a directing singer.

Choir :: Choir (n.) A band or organized company of singers, especially in church service..

Secular :: Secular (n.) A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.

Chorus :: Chorus (n.) Parts of a song or hymn recurring at intervals, as at the end of stanzas; also, a company of singers who join with the singer or choir in singer or choir in singing such parts..

Quire :: Quire (n.) See Choir.

Manductor :: Manductor (n.) A conductor; an officer in the ancient church who gave the signal for the choir to sing, and who beat time with the hand, and regulated the music..

Tapered :: Tapered (a.) Lighted with a taper or tapers; as, a tapered choir..

Decani :: Decani (a.) Used of the side of the choir on which the dean's stall is placed; decanal; -- correlative to cantoris; as, the decanal, or decani, side..

Chorister :: Chorister (n.) One who leads a choir in church music.

Choir :: Choir (n.) That part of a church appropriated to the singers.

Antiphone :: Antiphone (n.) The response which one side of the choir makes to the other in a chant; alternate chanting or signing.

Antiphony :: Antiphony (n.) An anthem or psalm sung alternately by a choir or congregation divided into two parts. Also figuratively.

Precentor :: Precentor (n.) The leader of the choir in a cathedral; -- called also the chanter or master of the choir.

Choral :: Choral (a.) Of or pertaining to a choir or chorus; singing, sung, or adapted to be sung, in chorus or harmony..

Tabernacle :: Tabernacle (n.) A seat or stall in a choir, with its canopy..

Semichorus :: Semichorus (n.) A half chorus; a passage to be sung by a selected portion of the voices, as the female voices only, in contrast with the full choir..

Antiphonal :: Antiphonal (a.) Of or pertaining to antiphony, or alternate singing; sung alternately by a divided choir or opposite choirs..

Faldstool :: Faldstool (n.) A folding stool, or portable seat, made to fold up in the manner of a camo stool. It was formerly placed in the choir for a bishop, when he offciated in any but his own cathedral church..

Male :: Male (v. t.) Consisting of males; as, a male choir..

Mouchoir :: Mouchoir (n.) A handkerchief.

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