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Manductor :: Manductor (n.) A conductor; an officer in the ancient church who gave the signal for the choir to sing, and who beat time with the hand, and regulated the music..

Secular :: Secular (n.) A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.

Male :: Male (v. t.) Consisting of males; as, a male choir..

Capellmeister :: Capellmeister (n.) The musical director in royal or ducal chapel; a choir-master.

Choir :: Choir (n.) That part of a church appropriated to the singers.

Sacrist :: Sacrist (n.) A sacristan; also, a person retained in a cathedral to copy out music for the choir, and take care of the books..

Quire :: Quire (n.) See Choir.

Precentor :: Precentor (n.) The leader of the choir in a cathedral; -- called also the chanter or master of the choir.

Chorister :: Chorister (n.) One who leads a choir in church music.

Leader :: Leader (n.) A performer who leads a band or choir in music; also, in an orchestra, the principal violinist; the one who plays at the head of the first violins..

Tabernacle :: Tabernacle (n.) A seat or stall in a choir, with its canopy..

Decani :: Decani (a.) Used of the side of the choir on which the dean's stall is placed; decanal; -- correlative to cantoris; as, the decanal, or decani, side..

Antiphone :: Antiphone (n.) The response which one side of the choir makes to the other in a chant; alternate chanting or signing.

Lecturn :: Lecturn (n.) A choir desk, or reading desk, in some churches, from which the lections, or Scripture lessons, are chanted or read; hence, a reading desk. [Written also lectern and lettern.].

Stall :: Stall (v. i.) A seat in the choir of a church, for one of the officiating clergy. It is inclosed, either wholly or partially, at the back and sides. The stalls are frequently very rich, with canopies and elaborate carving..

Cantor :: Cantor (n.) A singer; esp. the leader of a church choir; a precentor.

Hebdomadary :: Hebdomadary (n.) A member of a chapter or convent, whose week it is to officiate in the choir, and perform other services, which, on extraordinary occasions, are performed by the superiors..

Chorist :: Chorist (n.) A singer in a choir; a chorister.

Faldstool :: Faldstool (n.) A folding stool, or portable seat, made to fold up in the manner of a camo stool. It was formerly placed in the choir for a bishop, when he offciated in any but his own cathedral church..

Chevet :: Chevet (n.) The extreme end of the chancel or choir; properly the round or polygonal part.

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