The hymn was first introduced to American worshipers by Richard Storrs Willis, who included it in his "Church Chorals and Choir Studies," published in 1850.
The two magnificent chorals to which his hymns are sung are generally credited to him, although there is a great deal of uncertainty surrounding their composition.
In a chapter devoted to the instrumental works of Johann Christoph and his brother he instances a collection of forty-four Organ Chorals by the former, not one of which is in five parts.
Suites, or Overtures, Clavier pieces, and Organ Choralsas being by him.
His choruses invariably are magnificent and impressive, and he frequently introduces Choralsinto them,(164) making the other parts accompany their Cantus fugally, as was the practice in a Motet.
The latter includes also the simple four-part Chorals from the Oratorios and Cantatas; hence the numeration of that volume and B.
These, with all the other singers, stood around the revolving music-stand, on which the large manuscript chorals were placed.
You do not mind whether I sing in the chorals or not, and you will be better pleased to have me away, and I am going.
Sister Tabea had persistently omitted the rehearsals, and so the grand chorals were now given on the Sabbaths without her voice, and Jael felt no little exultation at this state of things.
And those who have read the history of music know that these same folk-songs and chorals were the first musical fruits grown on German soil: they were the fruits on which in past centuries the people lived and formed their taste.
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.
Realizing the influence of music, Martin Luther sang the Reformation into the hearts of the people with his noble chorals in which every one might join.
We stayed among the simple people and played at shepherdesses and pastorellas; we adopted the hours of the birds, we went to church on Sunday and sang German chorals as old as Luther.
Musical World, and, besides contributing frequently to current literature, published Church Chorals and Choir Studies, Our Church Music and several other volumes on musical subjects.
Doddridge may be noted in this division with its equally admirable tune of "Melancthon," one of the old Lutheran chorals of Germany.
All the chorals that carry it have substantially the same movement--for the spondaic accent of the long lines is compulsory--but their offerings sing "to one clear harp in divers tones.
The people lost their perception of the real merit of their old chorals and permitted them to be altered to suit the requirements of contemporary fashion, or else slighted them altogether in favor of the new "art song.
In multitudes of cantata movements lines or verses from two or more chorals are introduced.
Congregational choralsalso have a prominent place, since the publication of collections of vernacular religious songs had begun two years before.
The chorals in the St. Matthew Passion are taken bodily, both words and tunes, from the church hymn-book.
Even in the chorals the congregation took no part.
The multiplication of hymns and chorals went on throughout the sixteenth century and into the seventeenth with unabated vigor.
The chorals that were appointed for the day would commonly furnish the player with his raw material, and the song of the people would appear again soaring above their heads, adorned by effective tonal combinations.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chorals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
