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- noun Plural form of
choirmaster .
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Examples
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After each choir performance, the choirs will be judged by the alternate celebrity choirmasters and a musical expert.
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Michael Bolton, Patti LaBelle and Nick Lachey are going to be “celebrity choirmasters”, on the upcoming show whose title would also make a fantastic Sister Act threequel, “Clash of the Choirs.”
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It seems that, when performing this music usually the polyphony was reserved for the masses, not the offices the choirmasters were at liberty to substitute any particular section of the mass from Book I with a polyphonic equivalent from Book V.
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Like choirmasters and their desire to improve young boys, one always suspects a sinister motive.
The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004
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Like choirmasters and their desire to improve young boys, one always suspects a sinister motive.
The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004
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The foot-stomping, gut-busting hymns that the choirmasters and theologians just about censored out of the Cokesbury Hymnal have come thundering back full bass in the biggest revival tent ever, prime time.
Prime Time Preachers: The Rising Power of Televangelism; with an Introduction by T George Harris 1981
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It must be remembered that many of the opinions are those of instructors in cathedral schools, where one or two rehearsals and a daily church service means a great deal of singing; while other answers come from choirmasters who require of their boys equally hard work, though less in quantity.
The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs Francis E. Howard
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Still, it is the practice of choirmasters to carry the tone of soprano boys much higher in vowel-practice, as high even as
The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs Francis E. Howard
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The selection of hymns by organists and choirmasters, or the gambling of them between the organist and the minister in the vestry ten minutes before the service begins — these are abuses that explain the confusion of thought that marks the progress of our services.
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Most musicians of that time were simply music-masters or choirmasters at the different courts.
Historic Boyhoods Rupert Sargent Holland 1915
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