out-chorus
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
out-chorus (plural out-choruses)
- (jazz) The return to the main written melody following the chorus (improvised solo section) in a small group performance
- 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 American Expressive Culture, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999, p. 149, [1]
- 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 […]
- 2001, Joshua Berrett, Louis G. Bourgois III, chapter 7, in The Musical World of J. J. Johnson[2], Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, page 189:
- […] 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.
- 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 American Expressive Culture, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999, p. 149, [1]
Synonyms edit
Verb edit
out-chorus (third-person singular simple present out-choruses, present participle out-chorusing or out-chorussing, simple past and past participle out-chorused or out-chorussed)
- (transitive) To sing in chorus better, longer or louder than.
- 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, [3]
- […] 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, [3]