CHOIR (0. Fr. cuer from Lat. chorus; pronounced quire, and until the end of the 17th century so spelt, the spelling being altered to agree with the Fr. chceur)

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CHOIR (0. Fr. cuer from Lat. chorus; pronounced quire, and until the end of the 17th century so spelt, the spelling being altered to agree with the Fr. chceur) , the

body

BODY

of singers who perform the musical portion of the service in a

church

, or the place set apart for them. Any organized

body

BODY

of singers per-forming full

part

PART

choral works or oratorios is also called a choir.
In

English

ENGLISH

cathedrals the choir is composed of men (vicars-choral or lay clerks) and boys (choristers). They are divided into two sets, sitting on the north and

south

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

sides of the chancel respectively, called cantoris and decani, from being on the same side as the cantor (precentor) or the decanus (dean). This arrangement, together with the custom of vesting choirmen and choristers in surplices (traditional only in cathedrals and collegiate churches), has, since the middle of the 19th

century

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

, been adopted in a large number of parish and other churches. Surpliced choirs of women have occasionally been introduced, notably in America and the British colonies, but the practice has no warrant of traditional usage. In the Roman Catholic

Church

the choir plays a less conspicuous role than in the Church of England, its members not being regarded as ministers of the church, and non-Catholics are allowed to sing in it. The singers at

Mass

or other solemn services are usually placed in a gallery or some other inconspicuous place. The word " choir," indeed, formerly applied to all the clergy taking

part

PART

in services of the church, and the restriction of the

term

TERM

to the singing men and boys, who were in their origin no more than the representatives
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