: The movement opens with a long introduction, beginning with the " cry of despair " that was the climax of the third movement, followed by the quiet presentation of a theme which re-appears as structural music in the choral section, and by a call in the offstage horns.

The second theme is a long orchestral recitative, which provides the music for the alto solo in the choral section.

This long opening section serves to introduce a number of themes, which will become important in the choral part of the finale.

The horn call is expanded into Mahler's " Great Summons ", a transition into the choral section.

The choral section begins in G-flat major.

The choral section is organized primarily by the text, using musical material from earlier in the movement.

It begins with alternation between celebratory choral passages and more meditative sequences from the three vocal soloists, followed by a choral fugue on the words " Und seiner Hände Werk zeigt an das Firmament ", then a final homophonic section.

After a recitative which leads to a choral Amen, the alto soloist repeats the main section of the tenor aria, accompanied by the organ.

* Kyrie: Perhaps the most traditional of the mass movements, the Kyrie is in a traditional ABA ' structure, with stately choral writing in the first movement section and more contrapuntal voice leading in the Christe, which also introduces the four vocal soloists.

Nonetheless, it stands as an important representation of Soviet music in the 1920s, and in particular of the notion of " industrial " symphonies intended to inspire the proletariat: the choral section of the work is heralded within the score by way of a blast from a factory whistle, an innovation proposed by Shuglin.

Solomon Volkov admitted of the entire choral section, " ne is tempted simply to cut it off with a pair of scissors ".

In the West the opposite was true: listeners appreciated the orchestral section but not the choral emotionalism that followed.

It is applied similarly to choral music, where the whole section or choir is called to sing.

The three-part work includes a choral section in which a 12-voice choir sings lyrics penned by Bellson.

Lochinvar is another distinctive choral piece with a Celtic flavor, featuring a baritone voice with a violin solo just before the " Introduction of Strathspey " section.

In 2003 They released the album Damnation and a Day using a small orchestra and choral section for which Powell wrote the score.

The Psalms and the first movement in particular are noted among performers for their musical difficulty, with the opening section of the first movement often considered one of the hardest passages for choral tenors ever written, owing to the range of the piece, its rhythmic complexity and the consistent presence of the strange and difficult-to-maintain parallel 7ths between the tenor and bass parts ( see illustration ).

They sang the opening choral section entitled " Cloudsong " with a solo by soprano Katie McMahon Anúna won an Irish National Entertainment Award for Classical music in 1994.

He modelled his work on the " choral " lyrics of Stesichorus at least in so far as he wrote narratives on mythical themes ( often with original variations from the traditional stories ) and structured his verses in triads ( units of three stanzas each, called " strophe ", " antistrophe " and " epode "), so closely in fact that even the ancients sometimes had difficulty distinguishing between the two poets Whereas however ancient scholars collected the work of Stesichorus into twenty-six books, each probably a self-contained narrative that gave its title to the whole book, they compiled only seven books for Ibycus, which were numbered rather than titled and whose selection criteria are unknown.

In 1899 Hertz gave a Delius concert in St. James's Hall in London, which included Over the Hills and Far Away, a choral piece, Mitternachtslied, and excerpts from the opera Koanga.

As a choral singer, West participated in the May 2006 Choir of London tour to Jerusalem and the West Bank, where he also gave poetry readings as part of the concert programme.

In the last decade, Anderson has written a large amount of unaccompanied choral music, including Sing Unto the Lord ( written for Westminster Cathedral ), I Saw Eternity ( 2003, first performed by the London Philharmonic Choir ) and the Four American Choruses ( 2001-4 ; composed for the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus and their conductor Simon Halsey, who gave their first UK performance in 2005 ).

" Stephen Holden from The New York Times gave the song praise, writing " with ' Fantasy ', Ms. Carey glides confidently into the territory where gospel-flavored pop-soul meets light hip-hop and recorded some of the most gorgeously spun choral music to be found on a contemporary album.

* The Australian composer Nigel Butterley set the verse in his 2008 choral work " Beni Avshalom ", commissioned by the Sydney Chamber Choir

Steven Suskin wrote: The " fascinating extended musical scenes, with extended choral work, ... immediately marked Sondheim as the most distinctive theatre composer of his time.

The symphony was the first example of a major composer using voices in a symphony ( thus making it a choral symphony ).

The Italian composer Luigi Dallapiccola used some of the text in his choral work Canti di prigionia ( 1938 ).

An example is the 40-part choral motet Love You Big as the Sky by British composer Peter McGarr ( commissioned for the Tallis Festival 2007 ).

* The British composer Granville Bantock produced a choral setting of FitzGerald's translation 1906-1909.

David's life and teachings have inspired a choral work by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins, Dewi Sant.

* September 26 – William Billings, American choral composer ( b. 1746 )

His Symphony No. 9 takes the unprecedented step ( for a symphony ) of including parts for vocal soloists and choir in the last movement, making it a choral symphony ( however, a minor composer, Daniel Steibelt had written a piano concerto with a choral finale four years earlier, in 1820 ).

* Michael Howard ( musician ) ( 1922 – 2002 ), English choral conductor, organist and composer

* Richard Harrison Smith ( born 1937 ), choral conductor, arranger and composer

As a composer of choral lyrics, Bacchylides was probably responsible also for the performance, involving him in frequent travel to venues where musicians and choirs awaited instruction.

Britten's interests as a composer were wide-ranging ; he produced important music in such varied genres as orchestral, choral, solo vocal ( much of it written for his life partner, tenor Peter Pears ), chamber and instrumental, as well as film music.

* In Flanders Fields, choral piece by composer Bradley Nelson, commissioned by Fresno State Chamber Singers and Chico State Chamber Singers of California State University

He emerged as a soloist from this choral tradition, largely as a result of the admiration of the composer Michael Tippett, who heard him while at Canterbury and recognized the unique beauty of his voice.

* American choral music composer Mark Daniel Merritt ( 1961 -) lived in Noank during his childhood.

* Malcolm Dalglish, hammered dulcimer player, composer, and choral director

The Morgan State University Choir was led for more than three decades by the late Dr. Nathan Carter, celebrated conductor, composer, and arranger, is one of the nation ’ s most prestigious university choral ensembles.

* Jester Hairston, composer, choral conductor and actor

" He used musical themes to represent specific characters ; in this manner he more closely followed the practice of French composer Hector Berlioz in his choral symphony Roméo et Juliette than that of Liszt.

His major choral work Summer's Last Will and Testament ( after the play of the same name by Thomas Nashe ), one of his most emotionally dark works, proved unfashionable in the mood following the death of George V, but Alan Frank hailed it at the time as Lambert's " finest work ".< ref > Lambert himself considered he had failed as a composer, and completed only two major works in the remaining sixteen years of his life.

The Ukrainian carol most known to the Western World is the Carol of the Bells, composed by the Ukrainian composer Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych, and premiered on December 1916 by a choral group made up of students at Kiev University.

The hymn was set to music in 1865 by the Corfiot operatic composer Nikolaos Mantzaros, who composed two choral versions, a long one for the whole poem and a short one for the first two stanzas ; the latter is the one adopted as the National Anthem of Greece.

In his time, he was known primarily as a choral composer.