Then a choir in the chapel bursts forth with a query, to which the distant one breathes a faint response; and so it goes on for a time, till the procession again draws near, and the choirs reunite.
Andrew throwing open a Heaven with all the choirs of the Angels, which was in truth a very rare spectacle.
If our cathedral choirs were the best in the old Catholic days, it is equally true, I believe, that our orchestral associations are now the best in Europe.
This cult may have been the last remains of those mediaeval pre-Reformation days when the English Church choirs were, as I have read somewhere, the most famous in Europe.
There are nine choirsof angels in heaven, and the higher orders of angelic spirits instruct in the Divine mysteries the less exalted intelligences.
Now the teaching of the text just cited is decisive, not only against such performers in choirs, but against the choirs themselves, if by the latter term is meant certain ones employed to dispense music for the delectation of the congregation.
Various choirs relieved one another during Mass, and some diminutive fellows, under ten years of age, chanted Latin hymns in a pleasingly plaintive voice, led by a friar in long clothes and a choker.
The leader of the concert having challenged the choruses from the veranda of the palace, at once twenty choirs struck into their particular anthem with the utmost zeal.
Page 113 inflamed the passions, his lust rages more savagely; ’midst the mingled smell of scents and flowers, ’midst curled minions and youthful choirs he bids go sport the widowed wives whose husbands he but a moment ago has murdered.
Straightway the choirs chant and the seven hills re-echo their tuneful applause.
This account of the Rhenish school completes the discussion of groined vaulting as applied to the naves and choirs of Romanesque churches.
As for the choirs of the churches of this school, they were occasionally domed as at Saint Front[25] (Fig.
A large choir of lamas and acolytes were on their knees, intoning the usual chants in a manner that would not discredit the choirs of some English churches.
And all the choirs of heaven will join and sing the glad refrain: 31 Peace, peace on earth; good will to men!
And Miriam stood before the surging crowd, and casting up her eyes to heaven she sung anew the song of victory: 2 Bring forth the harp, the vina and the lyre; bring forth the highest sounding cymbal, all ye choirs of heaven.
The altar at Jerusalem was demolished, and the songs of Zion, erst sung by the Levitical choirs under the leadership of the Korachides, were heard no longer.
Each temple, and many noblemen kept choirs and bands of professional musicians, usually led by a priest, who composed odes appropriate to every occasion, and set them to music.
The great St. Anthony, one day when he was wide awake, saw the soul of the hermit St. Ammon being carried into heaven in the midst of choirs of angels.
The same St. Anthony saw also the soul of St. Paul Hermitus ascending to heaven surrounded by choirs of angels and prophets.
Savonarola went so far as to affirm: 'Che questo canto figurato l'ha trovato Satanasso,' a phrase quite in the style of a Puritan abusing choirs and organs.
They reveled in the opportunity of combining eight vocal parts and bringing three choirs with accompanying orchestras into play at the same time.
The queen being thus anointed and crowned, and having received all her royal ornaments, the choirs sing an anthem, commonly from Psalm xlv.
In Continental churches, where in many places the screens have been mutilated or removed, the choirs still occupy their old places.
The choirs are now very generally accommodated in the chancel, but the organ has been moved about into various places more or less unsuitable.
To sum up, then, this choir has not the delicate and spiritual beauty of the choirs of Lincoln or Ely.
The arrangement of the shafts is not quite so bold and various as in some other Early English work--the choirs of Ely and Worcester, for example.
The fire of 1829 gave Professor Willis and Mr Browne the opportunity to make elaborate and prolonged investigations, to which we owe much of the light which has been thrown upon problems connected with the choirs of Thomas and Roger.
Unhappily for singers, in most of the city churches the organist is made choir-leader; even in the vested choirs of the Episcopal church.
Country choirs generally practise enough to have the voices blend and to have the singing good.
In fact, there are many singers in church choirs of New York and Brooklyn who haven't the least claim to be singers at all.
And those whose names have not been given Are now in realms of light and love, Praising him mid the choirs of heaven, Crowned with his joy and peace and love.
Honey drops of love, Awaking all the choirs of heaven!
What could be more blest employ Than to cheer the choirs on high?
With slight deviation, most, if not all, the ground plans of the French Cathedrals are measurable in this manner, and their choirs may be so measured almost without exception.
Troyes Cathedral is in exact proportion with that of Chartres, and the choirs of Rheims, Beauvais, St. Ouen at Rouen, and others are equally so.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "choirs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
