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Choral Music, music sung by a group of people, using two or more singers to perform each musical line. The term part-song is used for vocal music having one singer for each part. Choral music is written for choruses, or choirs, consisting either of adults, children, or both.

Although complex genres of choral music developed in Western music, part-singing practices were also established in folk, tribal, and non-Western cultu

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In terms of present-day chant styles in the Western world, the most important of the early repertories is Jewish liturgical chant, or cantillation (see Jewish Music). Although the chorus members—like those of modern opera—were dancers and actors as well as singers, the term chorus eventually came to indicate only singers. The early Christian church borrowed not only its modes, or scales, but also some Hebrew melodies and melodic fragments.

In ancient Greece, religious feelings were expressed in drama by a chorus. Such singing often accompanies manual labor, expresses joy or sorrow, or forms a part of religious ritual. Ambrose, it is still used in some Roman Catholic services in Milan.

Chant, unaccompanied sung melody, the rhythms and melodic contours of which are closely tied to the spoken rhythms and inflections of the text. The Armenian, Byzantine, Russian, Greek, and Syrian repertories are the most important. Most of the texts in Christian chant are taken from or based on the Psalms, a biblical book shared by Jews and Christians.

Among Protestant denominations only the Church of England has encouraged an extensive use of chant; its repertory, which is harmonized, is called Anglican chant.

Several types of Christian chant, which is often called plainsong, developed during the first 1000 years of the Christian era. A repertory called Ambrosian chant developed at Milan, Italy; named after St. Many of the original melodies in these repertories were incorporated into the Gregorian repertory. In Spain, until about the 11th century, there was a chant repertory called Mozarabic chant, named after the Mozarab Christians who lived in Arab-dominated Spain during the Middle Ages.

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