Each song or ditty was prefaced by an author's note which indicated the origin and meaning of the song as well as special interest the song had, musical arrangement, and most of the chorus and verses.

The chorus of song is also sampled in the Die Antwoord song " Zef Side ".

The Chula is a song where the singer part is much bigger than the chorus response, usually eight singer verses for one chorus response, but the proportion may vary.

The Corrido is a song where the singer part and the chorus response are equal, normally two verses by two responses.

Finally, the Quadra is a song where the same verse is repeated four times, either three singer verses followed by one chorus response, or one verse and one response.

The song was written in 1977, but existed only as a demo recording of the chorus.

The musical score to Thespis was never published and is now lost, except for one song that was published separately, a chorus that was re-used in The Pirates of Penzance, and the Act II ballet music.

The song began with the chorus, which all of them sang with each one alternating ( in lip-synch ) a mournful howl after each of the first three lines.

Pinker gives the example of a student " stubbornly " mishearing the chorus to I'm Your Venus as " I'm Your Penis ," and being surprised that the song was allowed on the radio.

The song is a duet between a man and a woman, which features a call and answer chorus.

Uruguayan band El Cuarteto de Nos wrote the song " Me Amo " ( I Love Myself ) in which the chorus sings " como Narciso soy " ( I am like Narcissus ).

* The chorus of American popular song writer John Prine's song " Onomatopoeia " cleverly incorporates onomatopoeic words ( though as discussed, ' ouch!

Although Orbison recorded and wrote standard structure songs before " Only the Lonely ", he claimed never to have learned how to write them: " I'm sure we had to study composition or something like that at school, and they'd say ' This is the way you do it ,' and that's the way I would have done it, so being blessed again with not knowing what was wrong or what was right, I went on my own way .... So the structure sometimes has the chorus at the end of the song, and sometimes there is no chorus, it just goes ... But that's always after the fact — as I'm writing, it all sounds natural and in sequence to me.

* The album, Midnight Marauders ( 1993 ) by A Tribe Called Quest includes the song " Steve Biko ( Stir It Up )" in which Biko is mentioned very briefly during the song, mostly in the 20 second chorus.

The song ( chorus only ) is traditionally sung during the seventh-inning stretch of a baseball game.

The song ( or at least its chorus ) has been recorded or cited countless times in the 100 years since it was written.

In the 1935 Marx Brothers ' film " A Night at the Opera ", in one of the more unusual uses of the song, composer Herbert Stothart arranged for a full pit orchestra to segue seamlessly from the overture of Il Trovatore into the chorus of " Take Me Out to the Ball Game ".

Also in 2002, hip hop artist Juha released an album called Polari, with the chorus of the title song written entirely in the slang.

* The Requiem in C minor for mixed chorus by Luigi Cherubini was written in 1816, in memory of Louis XVI.

The novel is atypical in that it was written in first person plural from the perspective of an anonymous group of teenage boys who became infatuated with the girls, a style mirroring a Greek chorus.

" Step By Step ", a song written by good friend Beaker and included on volume one, and incorporated into " Sometimes By Step " with additional lyrics by Mullins on volume two, became an instant hit on Christian Radio, and, like " Awesome God ", it became a popular praise chorus.

Fellow Swiss musician Ernest Ansermet, a champion of his music from 1918 on, conducted recordings of many of Martin's works, such as the oratorio for soloists, double chorus & orchestra In Terra Pax, written in 1944, with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.

In the same year he wrote Morning Heroes, a work for narrator, chorus and orchestra, written in the hope of exorcising the spectre of the First World War: " Although the war had been over for more than ten years, I was still troubled by frequent nightmares ; they all took the same form.

They act as a Greek chorus, intermittently narrating the story through verses of " The Ballad of Cat Ballou ", which, along with the other songs in the film, was written by Mack David and Jerry Livingston.

" –; Trape's " In the Days of My Youth ", in which the " fa la la chorus is written as " viol.

Sullavan succeeded in getting a chorus part in the Harvard Dramatic Society 1929 spring production Close Up, a musical written by Harvard senior and later Broadway and Hollywood composer Bernard Hanighen.

The songs were memorised, not written down, and performed by a soloist, or by a soloist and a chorus in antiphony ( see: Kalevala ).

Shorter choral works written around this time include the carol-anthem Long long ago ( 1951 ), the introit Behold O God our Defender for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, and The House of the Mind ( 1954 ) for chorus and strings.

According to MacIntyre, Bishop's account was that he based the song on an earlier hymn he had written for, or in mockery of, a pious brother-in-law, taking from this earlier song the " glory hallelujah " chorus, the phrase " to be a soldier in the army of the Lord ", and the tune.

:- That the air be written in the G clef, and in any key the composer may select ; but not to range below lower C or above upper G. The chorus ( if any ) to be written for three or four voices.

* A song called " Magdalene Laundry " written by J. Mulhern appears on the 1992 album Sentimental Killer by Mary Coughlan with the chorus line " Ooh Lord, won't you let me wash away the stain.

The play is a large-scale musical theatrical production, written and composed by club members, involving some 300 people, including chorus, cast, stage crew and orchestra.

Apart from the recreated songs, an original chorus and hook written by Eggermont and musical arranger Martin Duiser called " Stars on 45 " was added at intervals to help string differing sections together.

The chorus, on verse 2 of Psalm 75, is written in grave stile antico.

African-American performers were featured in the musical Show Boat ( which had a part written for Paul Robeson and a chorus of Jubilee Singers ), and especially all-black operas such as Porgy and Bess and Virgil Thompson's Four Saints in Three Acts of 1934.

The first stanza ( which is properly called a " verse ," which is often spoken as an intro ) and the additional lyrics ( properly called the " chorus ") were in the original song as written but are rarely sung in recordings ( those of Bobby Darin, Mel Torme, Blossom Dearie, Twiggy, Vera Lynn and Rod Stewart being notable exceptions ).

Pete Ham had written a song originally titled " If It's Love " but it had lacked a strong chorus.

Other pieces from this period include a violin concerto written for Joseph Szigeti and the rhapsody America for chorus and orchestra, which won a 1927 prize ( sponsored by Musical America ) for the best symphonic work on an American theme by an American composer.

It was greeted with a chorus of boos by 500 women in Trenton Monday at a forum of the State Federation of Women's Clubs.

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

She chose an a cappella arrangement that was close to Edwin Othello Excell's, accompanied by a chorus of amateur singers who were friends of hers.

The tempo of their arrangement was slowed to allow for the bagpipes, but it was based on Collins ': it began with a bagpipe solo introduction similar to her lone voice, then it was accompanied by the band of bagpipes and horns, whereas in her version she is backed up by a chorus.

One by one, the Quintet – five singers who comment like a Greek chorus throughout the show – enter, tuning up.

The words are sung during the final movement by four vocal soloists and a chorus.

Simon Frith identifies the origins of the power ballad in the emotional singing of soul artists, particularly Ray Charles and the adaptation of this style by figures such as Eric Burdon, Tom Jones and Joe Cocker to produce slow tempo songs often building to a loud and emotive chorus backed by drums, electric guitars and sometimes choirs.

The current version was composed by Ramón Carnicer, with words by Eusebio Lillo, and has six parts plus the chorus.

Years later, in 1847, the Chilean government entrusted the young poet Eusebio Lillo with a new text that would replace the anti-Spain poem of Vera y Pintado, and after being analyzed by Andrés Bello, retained the original chorus (" Dulce patria, recibe los votos ...").

In the celebrations marking the return of democracy in March 1990 at Santiago's Estadio Nacional de Chile, the anthem was played in its present melody, raised to F Major ( the Royal Musical Official Version of the anthem ) which is the original melody of the second anthem by Carnicer, but using the 1847 lyrics as text, save for the original chorus.

Fern Hill has been set to music by the American composer John Corigliano, for SATB chorus with orchestral accompaniment.

The identity of the threesome is neatly underscored by a patriotic account of their roles during Greece's great victory over Persia at the Battle of SalamisAeschylus fought there, Sophocles was just old enough to celebrate the victory in a boys ' chorus and Euripides was born on the very day of the battle.

It was Prince who changed the title to Follies ; he was " intrigued by the psychology of a reunion of old chorus dancers and loved the play on the word ' follies '".

) In the second instance, Banks is preparing for an Easter service and attempts to show off his prowess by singing the last two lines of the chorus ; Smith jokingly replies with his own version, in which he makes a joke about Carlton's height.

At the end of the verse, Campbell would nudge Tapp or the guest with his elbow as a form of slapstick timing, who would then spin around ( Tapp would react as if awoken by the elbow ) to join him on the chorus:

Each of the quartet would sing one line of the verse-a different one for each performance, followed by each cast member reciting some humorous reason for his misery in spoken form, then ( in the first several seasons ) the quartet would reprise the chorus and end with all four sobbing in typical overstated manner.

It is, in fact, full of theatrical codes harking back to the Dadaists ' Vox Humana experiments after World War One, Alphonse de Lamartine's " La Voix humaine ", part of his larger work Harmonies poétiques et religieuses and the effect of the creation of the Vox Humana (" voix humaine "), an organ stop of the Regal Class by Church organ masters ( late 16th century ) that attempted to imitate the human voice but never succeeded in doing better than the sound of a male chorus at a distance.

Based on the Broadway play by Robert E. Sherwood, the film stars Mae Clarke as Myra, a chorus girl in World War I London who becomes a prostitute.

on the other hand was elated and smiling, and registered her joy by dancing in company with the entire chorus.