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Choirmaster

noun
1.
The musical director of a choir.  Synonyms: cantor, precentor.






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"Choirmaster" Quotes from Famous Books



... by J.W. ELLIOTT, Organist and Choirmaster of St. Mark's, Hamilton Terrace, London. With some Practical Counsels taken by permission from "Notes on the Church Service," ...
— Astronomy of To-day - A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language • Cecil G. Dolmage

... and musician generally, so in addition to his office as clerk he held the position of choirmaster. At church on Sunday he sat at the west end, the boys of the village sitting behind him, and it was part of his duty to see that they behaved themselves decorously. Should a boy make any disturbance Fewson's hand fell ...
— The Parish Clerk (1907) • Peter Hampson Ditchfield

... this young man that in spite of indifferent health and without at once resigning his work at St. Luke's, he became choirmaster and honorary organist of St. John's Church, Birkenhead, doing similar work in connection with that institution. He trained both the latter-named choir together, and the writer (whose son was in St. John's choir) frequently assisted him by playing the organ at the services on Sunday. ...
— The Recent Revolution in Organ Building - Being an Account of Modern Developments • George Laing Miller



Words linked to "Choirmaster" :   musician, precentor



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