chorals

Enlightenment knows no cathedrals, no holy masses, no chorals or rituals in magnificent robes with which it can feed the perceptive organs of the present, the camera and the screen.

GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 2/1. 2007

Rather was it the ancientness of the golden youth of the world, love lilts of earth younglings, with light of new-born suns drenching them, chorals of young stars mating in space; murmurings of April gods and goddesses.

The Moon Pool 2004

German hymns and chorals had a place in the Church Psalter and Hymn

Paul Gerhardt as a Hymn Writer and his Influence on English Hymnody 1976

They appeared at intervals from the year 1649 on, many of them for the first time in the Praxis pietatis melica, a collection of hymns and tunes by Johann Crueger, the famous organist and composer of chorals.

Paul Gerhardt as a Hymn Writer and his Influence on English Hymnody 1976

He had done away with the mass and with Latin church music; he put in its place, for friends and foes alike, regular preaching and German chorals.

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 Various

Nearly all the popular collections will be found to have about the same proportions of the permanent and the transient elements, -- on the one hand, the old chorals and hymn-tunes consecrated by centuries of solemn worship, -- on the other, the compositions and "arrangements" of the editors.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 Various

At best our view is narrow and contracted, else were we gods, and as we grow we discover our little, vaunted beliefs to be but as tiny shreds of color in God's great mosaic, our song of triumph and discovery but as the buzzing of the insect to the chorals of the chanting hosts of heaven.

Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul Anna Bishop Scofield

In course of time these chorals might then be transferred to our churches, where they might well take the place of the easier but very eccentric melodies and incorrect harmonies now too often heard there.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science Various

The brave old chorals of Germany would hardly be sung with much effect were the airs denied to the masculine voice, yet if it be man's prerogative to sing bass, it is surely woman's to sing treble.

Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays Timothy Titcomb

How, in danger of death, he played the flute in his tent, how his wounded soldiers sang chorals after the battle, how he took off his hat to a regiment -- he has often been imitated since -- all this was reported on the Neckar and the Rhine, was printed, and listened to with merry laughter and tears of emotion.

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 Various