Polychoral music
From Library of Congress Subject Headings
Polychoral music
- Here are entered works on choral music in which the singers are divided into more than one chorus. Musical compositions for or with chorus, whether divided or not, are entered under the headings [Choruses; Choruses, Sacred;] or [Choruses, Secular,] followed if appropriate by type of voices and accompaniment.
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007062
- info:lc/authorities/sh95007062
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh95007062#concept
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Variants
- Antiphonal choral music
- Choral music, Antiphonal
- Cori spezzati
- Music, Polychoral
- Polychoral music--History and criticism
Broader Terms
Sources
- found: Work cat.: 90-104605: La policoralità in Italia nei secoli XVI e XVII, 1987.
- found: New Harvard dict. of music (Polychoral; also antiphonal)
- found: Terminorum musicae index (Polychoral music)
- found: Web. 3 (Polychoral)
- found: New Grove dict. of mus. WWW site, Dec. 19, 2005: under Cori spezzati (Singers divided into distinct groups, sometimes placed in different parts of a building; also the technique of the music composed for them.)
- notfound: New Grove
General Notes
- Here are entered works on choral music in which the singers are divided into more than one chorus. Musical compositions for or with chorus, whether divided or not, are entered under the headings [Choruses; Choruses, Sacred;] or [Choruses, Secular,] followed if appropriate by type of voices and accompaniment.
Change Notes
- 2005-12-19: new
- 2006-02-01: revised
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