![]() Accompanying instruments vary widely, from only one instrument (a piano or pipe organ) to a full orchestra of 70 to 100 musicians for rehearsals a piano or organ accompaniment is often used, even if a different instrumentation is planned for performance, or if the choir is rehearsing unaccompanied music. Singing without accompaniment is called a cappella singing (although the American Choral Directors Association discourages this usage in favor of "unaccompanied", since a cappella denotes singing "as in the chapel" and much unaccompanied music today is secular). ![]() Other than four, the most common number of parts are three, five, six, and eight.Ĭhoirs can sing with or without instrumental accompaniment. Most often choirs consist of four sections intended to sing in four part harmony, but there is no limit to the number of possible parts as long as there is a singer available to sing the part: Thomas Tallis wrote a 40-part motet entitled Spem in alium, for eight choirs of five parts each Krzysztof Penderecki's Stabat Mater is for three choirs of 16 voices each, a total of 48 parts. ![]() In typical 18th century to 21st century oratorios and masses, 'chorus' or 'choir' implies that there is more than one singer per part, in contrast to the quartet of soloists also featured in these works.Ĭhoirs are often led by a conductor or choirmaster/mistress. Choirs may sing without instruments, or accompanied by a piano, accordion, pipe organ, a small ensemble, or an orchestra.Ī choir can be a subset of an ensemble thus one speaks of the "woodwind choir" of an orchestra, or different "choirs" of voices or instruments in a polychoral composition. The term choir is very often applied to groups affiliated with a church (whether or not they actually occupy the quire), whereas a chorus performs in theatres or concert halls, but this distinction is not rigid. Most choirs are led by a conductor, who leads the performances with arm, hand, and facial gestures. Choirs may perform music from the classical music repertoire, which spans from the medieval era to the present, or popular music repertoire. ![]() Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform. A choir ( / ˈ k w aɪər/ KWIRE also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers. ![]()
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