choir music
Songs for voices
Choir music is music composed or arranged for a group of singers performing together, typically in parts—soprano, alto, tenor, bass.
The term covers sacred works like anthems and masses as well as secular pieces.
The choir music echoed through the cathedral.
Distinguished from solo vocal music by its collective, harmonized sound.
- motetSacred polyphonic choral work
- madrigalUnaccompanied Renaissance choral composition
- polyphonySimultaneous independent melodic lines
- Gregorian chantMonophonic Catholic liturgical music
- hymnReligious song of praise
harmony · anthem · phrasing · articulation · requiem · descant · dynamics · mass · psalmody · cantata · oratorio · sight reading · cathedrals · shape-note singing · community singing · concert halls · holiday concert · solfège
- American Singingspirituals, blues, country, gospel, barbershop
- sacred choralmotets, masses, requiems, motet, oratorios
- vocal musicsong, vocals, soprano, tenor, alto
- sacred musichymns, hymn, anthem, anthems, gospel
- choral musica cappella, vocal ensemble, vocal ensembles, vocal harmony, vocal harmonies
- church musicanthems, hymnal, masses, hymnbook, canticles
choir musicsolo performance
Unaccompanied artistic presentation
monody · solo singing · aria · art song · lieder
choir musicinstrumental music
Music without vocals
orchestral music · chamber music · symphonic music · band music · piano music
choir musicdrinking songs
Lyrics for toasting together
bawdy songs · pop music · club music · secular music · honky-tonk
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