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CHOIRBOOK [1 record]

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Record 1 2024-06-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Music
  • Forwarding, Folding, and Binding (Printing)
  • Publication and Bookselling
DEF

A large music book made to be placed on a stand in front of a choir.

CONT

The music was read by the entire choir grouped around the choir book set on a stand.

OBS

Each part [in the choir book] is notated separately, usually in the configuration that presents, when the book is open, the soprano and tenor parts on the verso of a leaf, and the alto and bass parts on the recto of the next leaf.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Musique
  • Façonnage, pliage et reliure (Imprimerie)
  • Édition et librairie
CONT

Le livre de chœur devait [...] se lire à distance et avait tout intérêt à être grand.

Spanish

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