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chorale

chorale (kōrălˈ, –rälˈ), any of the traditional hymns of the German Protestant Church. The form was developed after the Reformation to replace the plainsong of the earlier service and as a means of congregational participation in the liturgy. Early chorales were mainly translations of Latin hymns set to folksong melodies. The chorale is strophic, written in simple language, and has a simple melody, but its phrasing and metrical structure are less regular than those of the English hymn. J. S. Bach reworked nearly 400 existing chorales and composed 30 new ones.

chorale

, choral

1. a slow stately hymn tune, esp of the Lutheran Church

2. Chiefly US a choir or chorus

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A fine example of this new wave of Telemann scholarship is Ute Poetzsch's critical edition of five chorale settings composed between the mid-1740s and 1754: Christus, der ist mein Leben TVWV 1:138; Du, o schemes Weltgebaude TVWV 1:394; Ich bin ja, Herr, in deiner Macht TVWV 1:822; Jesu, meine Freude TVWV 1:970; and Jesus, meine Zuversicht TVWV 1:984.

Chorale settings by Telemann

If Bach heard the Stadtpfeifers play (nearly a certainty), it is likely he heard a brass voice playing chromatic obbligati and doubling chorale voices.

The Stadtpfeifer: Gottfried Reiche and Bach's Leipzig horn parts

The lullaby-like final chorus,"Ruht Wohl," is lovingly shaped and restrained, as is the final funeral chorale, too often screeched, maintaining the overall mood of resignation and acceptance.

ST. JOHN PASSION

1, 5, and 9 are chorales evidently planned for congregational participation, but provenance also suggests that the choir sang them.

A performer's guide to the sacred solo cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach

Their soothing, well-controlled delivery of the 12 Lutheran Chorales helped us on our journey through this epic of suffering, and brought us to the here-and-now in world-class form.

Local performers world-class with the `St. Matthew Passion'

The first group of chorales draws us into an atmosphere of dream, the suppressed expectation of advent.

Johann Sebastian Bach Orgel-Buchlein BWV 599-644

It is fairly simple to teach using a four-voice chorale texture, which can serve as a preliminary step to the more complex application of open-score reading.

Pedagogical tools for preparing and performing open scores

Lutheran leaders of the sixteenth century developed lists of popular hymns (chorales) that reflected the thought and spirit of certain Sundays, festivals, and seasons of the church year.

Lutheran Book of Worship: successes and failures--a review for pastors and musicians

Paul Salamunovich, director emeritus of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, will be the guest conductor at the first Oregon Choral Summit on Saturday in Eugene.

Choirs to gather in Eugene to learn, sing

* Dallas: The award-winning Turtle Creek Chorale presents "Bells, Bows, & Bangles" (December 19-22) with special guests Resounding Joy, a bell ensemble from the city's Cathedral of Hope, the nation's largest Metropolitan Community Church congregation.

Gay choruses go a-caroling

It is important for the argument to establish that it is the first stanzas of the chorales and not any of the subsequent ones that the composer aims to portray, and this Schneider does very well.