Chorus

Music

1. A composition usually in four or more parts written for a large number of singers.

2. A refrain in which others, such as audience members, join a soloist in a song.

3. A line or group of lines repeated at intervals in a song.

4. A solo section based on the main melody of a popular song and played by a member of the group.

5. A body of singers who perform choral compositions, usually having more than one singer for each part.

6. A body of vocalists and dancers who support the soloists and leading performers in operas, musical comedies, and revues.

7. A group of persons who speak or sing in unison a given part or composition in drama or poetry recitation.

8. An actor in Elizabethan drama who recites the prologue and epilogue to a play and sometimes comments on the action.

9. A group of masked dancers who performed ceremonial songs at religious festivals in early Greek times.

10. The group in a classical Greek drama whose songs and dances present an exposition of or, in later tradition, a disengaged commentary on the action.

11. The portion of a classical Greek drama consisting of choric dance and song.

12. A speech, song, or other utterance made in concert by many people.

13. A simultaneous utterance by a number of people: a chorus of jeers from the bystanders.

14. The sounds so made.

1. A group of persons who speak or sing in unison a given part or composition in drama or poetry recitation.

2. An actor in Elizabethan drama who recites the prologue and epilogue to a play and sometimes comments on the action.

3. A group of masked dancers who performed ceremonial songs at religious festivals in early Greek times.

4. The group in a classical Greek drama whose songs and dances present an exposition of or, in later tradition, a disengaged commentary on the action.

5. The portion of a classical Greek drama consisting of choric dance and song.

6. A speech, song, or other utterance made in concert by many people.

7. A simultaneous utterance by a number of people: a chorus of jeers from the bystanders.

8. The sounds so made.

1. A group of masked dancers who performed ceremonial songs at religious festivals in early Greek times.

2. The group in a classical Greek drama whose songs and dances present an exposition of or, in later tradition, a disengaged commentary on the action.

3. The portion of a classical Greek drama consisting of choric dance and song.

4. A speech, song, or other utterance made in concert by many people.

5. A simultaneous utterance by a number of people: a chorus of jeers from the bystanders.

6. The sounds so made.

A group or performer in a modern drama serving a purpose similar to the Greek chorus.

The performers of a choral ode, especially a Pindaric ode.

1. A speech, song, or other utterance made in concert by many people.

2. A simultaneous utterance by a number of people: a chorus of jeers from the bystanders.

3. The sounds so made.