out-chorus
out-chorus noun: the return to the main written melody following the chorus (improvised solo section) in a small group performance.
Noun
out-chorus (plural out-choruses)
- The return to the main written melody following the chorus (improvised solo section) in a small group performance
- I also hear the trombone's held-notes in the out-chorus (B⁷) as evocative "shouts" that Signify black religious shouting and its counterpart expression in secular life—calls, cries, and hollers […]1991, Samuel A. Floyd, Jr., "Ring Shout! Literary Studies, Historical Studies, and Black Music Inquiry" in Gena Dagel Caponi (ed.), Signifyin(g), Sanctifyin’, & Slam Dunking: A Reader in African...
- […] the treatment of Monk's classic blues from 1947, "Misterioso," includes a torrent of notes from Adderley's cornet in the opening solo chorus matched by a hot, intense solo by Johnson before the out chorus.2001, Joshua Berrett, Louis G. Bourgois III, chapter 7, in The Musical World of J. J. Johnson, Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, page 189
- Synonyms:
- head-out
Verb
out-chorus (third-person singular simple present out-choruses or (rare) out-chorusses, present participle out-chorusing or (rare) out-chorussing, simple past and past participle out-chorused or (rare) out-chorussed)
- To sing in chorus better, longer or louder than.
- […] the audience right loyally insisted on having "God save the King," and far out-chorussed the professional singers on the stage.1831, Thomas Thomson, "The London Drama, Regent's Park, London, Monday, Jan. 10th, 1831, in The Edinburgh Literary Journal; or, Weekly Register of Criticism and Belles Lettres, Edinburgh, p. 51...
Synonyms of out-chorus
- head-out
Forms of out-chorus
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | out-choruses |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | out-choruses |
| present participle | out-chorusing |
| past participle | out-chorused |
| past | out-chorused |
| third-person singular present (rare) | out-chorusses |
| present participle (rare) | out-chorussing |
| past participle (rare) | out-chorussed |
| past (rare) | out-chorussed |
Origin of out-chorus
From out- + chorus.
Questions about out-chorus
- What does out-chorus mean?
- Out-chorus means the return to the main written melody following the chorus (improvised solo section) in a small group performance.
- What part of speech is out-chorus?
- Out-chorus can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of out-chorus?
- The plural of out-chorus is out-choruses.
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