semichorus
semichorus. Half-chorus. In some choral works, e.g. Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius and Vaughan Williams's A Sea Symphony, special antiphonal effect is created by contrasting small group of singers (semich.) with full body, or the semich. alone is used for certain passages.
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