Estelle L’Hardy’s Ecstatic State and Jenny Wren’s Blessed Children: Dickens’s Invention within the Evolving Mental Sciences by Carole Koepke Brown

“…In Our Mutual Friend, Dickens brilliantly exploits the medical climax in the recovery of the ‘incurable’ Estelle L’Hardy (1836–37), a paralyzed Swiss girl who self-hypnotized a celestial choir to assuage menacing pain. When the French doctor and pioneer Antoine Despine finally learned of her nightly choir, he recalled his clinical experience with former patients who had presented with ecstasy (occasionally a symptom of hysteria). …”
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Exploring HIV provider framings of living and aging with HIV by Madeline Villalba, Gemmae M. Fix, Rachel Schenkel, Mary Ann Chiasson, Allen L. Gifford, Peter Gordon, Helen-Maria Lekas, Michael T. Yin, Abigail Baim-Lance

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Einen Anfang finden. György Ligetis Skizzen und Entwürfe zu den Drei Phantasien nach Friedrich Hölderlin für 16-stimmigen gemischten Chor a cappella by Vera Funk

“…. // The Drei Phantasien nach Friedrich Hölderlin for mixed, 16-voice choir a cappella (1982/83) are regularly performed by professional choirs, especially those specializing in Hölderlin reception of the 1980s. …”
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MICA TIGANIADA OU L’AVENTURE DU FOLK-ROCK ROUMAIN PENDANT LA PÉRIODE COMMUNISTE by Luana STAN

“…This is an excellent example of mixing the aksak rhythm, the rock ensemble, the women choir and the violin into a coherent piece of music. …”
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Survivre par l’écrit chez les ecclésiastiques rouennais du XVe siècle by Vincent Tabbagh

“…Their tombs were often modest, there were few inscriptions, but the canons had their names inscribed in an obituary in order to obtain singing in the cathedral choir on the anniversary of their death, while amongst the elite clergy the sophistication of wills and the gift of books expressed the development of a self consciousness which was directly linked to the quest of salvation by memory and prayers of the living.…”
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ASPECTS OF THE VOCAL-SYMPHONIC GENRE by Lucian GHIŞA

“… The vocal-symphonic genre is expressed by employing an apparatus that includes the orchestra, the choir and the soloists. It is to be found in several instances: the musical theatre – opera; without means of theatrical expression – oratorio, and cantata. …”
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Lived Religion in English Convents in Exile, 1600 - 1800: Accommodating the Ordinary and the Exceptional within the Rule by Caroline BOWDEN

“…These not only set out in great detail how every part of the day was to be spent but specified the spirit in which both lay sisters and choir nuns were to approach their tasks: all their time was devoted to God in a spirit of humility. …”
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La solennisation des fêtes dans la vie liturgique et temporelle des moines du Mont Saint-Michel (XIIIe-XVe siècles) by Louis Chevalier

“…The degrees of solemnity, as markers of solemnization in the manuscripts, differentiate feasts according to their importance, indicating the number of lessons at the hour of matins and the candles lit in the choir, and mentioning the liturgical ornaments. Through a codicological and textual study of liturgical books in use between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries at Mont Saint-Michel, this article examines the hierarchical categorisation of the feasts in the liturgy and the evolution of the degrees of solemnity on Mont Saint-Michel at the end of the Middle Ages, and the significance of the solemnization of a feast for the temporal life of the monks.…”
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Archéologie du bâti par méthode géoradar : le cas de la basilique Saint-Seurin de Bordeaux by Anne Michel, Jean-François Lataste

“…During an archaeological operation conducted there in 2015, Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) investigations were carried out on the walls of the thick masonry of the chapels located in the crypt and on the floor of the church, in the nave and in the choir. They highlighted the structure of the masonry of the crypt, encompassing those of the Late Antiquity building, and strengthened the hypothesis of the existence of conduits extending from the chapels to the east of the crypt.…”
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Maladie hyperostosique et maladie goutteuse, une diathèse familiale en Normandie : Thaon, Calvados by Joël Blondiaux, Armelle Alduc-Le Bagousse, Xavier Demondion, Françoise Delahaye, Cécile Niel

“…Within the 12th century choir, fifteen burials have been excavated; all of them revealed mature skeletons. …”
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The triumphal cross of the cathedral of Nevers: painting technique and examination by Nadia Bertoni Cren, Stéphane Cren

“…Restored and put on display on a modern cross in front of the choir, the sculpture suffered a new fall in 2015. …”
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L’apport de la sculpture à la compréhension des fonctions liturgiques by Pascale Chevalier

“…Chasing, engraving, champlevé, bas-relief and openwork spread over the limits of the choir, reinforcing the significance of the sacrificial altar, the seat of the celebrant and the dais from which the Word resounded. …”
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RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: “A CAMBRIDGE MASS”. ABOUT A NEWLY DISCOVERED MANUSCRIPT AND A WORLD PREMIERE, IN CONVERSATION WITH MAESTRO ALAN TONGUE by Bianca ŢIPLEA TEMEŞ

“…Recently, the conductor Alan Tongue discovered at the Cambridge University Library a manuscript signed by Vaughan Williams: a Mass for soloists, choir and orchestra, written in 1899, with the academic purpose of obtaining the title of Doctor of Music. …”
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La valeur du corps saint d’après les Vitae des mulieres religiosas des Pays-Bas méridionaux du xiiie siècle by Anne-Laure Méril-Bellini delle Stelle

“…This is the case with a Cistercian lay brother such as Arnulf of Villers, while the choir monks or preacher do not share this spiritual model, which shifts the issue of the price assessement of the holy body from gender to religious status and thereby allows to consider in a new light medieval social hierarchies set by the Church as well as the role played by the body.…”
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The World as God’s Property in Psalm 24:1-2 as the Source of Man’s Right Attitude Towards Creation by Janusz Nawrot

“…This paper joins the unanimous choir of nature defenders, and it aims at drawing the reader’s attention to selected aspects of human relationship with the world, presented in the opening verses of Psalm 24. …”
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Syncopation Struggles: Decoding Rhythmic Challenges in Ghanaian Arts Music by Kow Arkhurst, Richmond Amoh-Yeboah, William Adjei Dickson

“…Using a qualitative methodology grounded in Ethnomusicology, the research examined how traditional rhythms are taught and interpreted, with particular emphasis on the role of choir directors. The findings indicate that current interpretive methods may not adequately preserve the authenticity of these rhythms, affecting educational and cultural transmission. …”
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Entre le griffon et le monstre marin, entre le kētos et le sēnmurv. Réflexions sur les créatures hybrides du chancel de Santa Maria Assunta d’Aquilée (ix e siècle) by Raphaël Demès

“…Facing each other, they oppose each other to obstruct the passage of the faithful, reinforcing the separating function of the chancel, marking the frontier between the nave and the choir, between the laity and the clerics. Presented on a vertical support facing the faithful, these composite beings help to bring man closer to God, inviting him to be one with Christ through communion, to give himself, body and soul, to the Church. …”
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Definicja piękna w XII wieku a architektoniczna ekspozycja ołtarza w epoce gotyckiej by Mirosław Bogdan

“…When the differentiation of these types of beauty shows itself, not only thanks to the unknown in Romanism mystical structure of architecture in a gothic temple, but also through the construction of the gothic altar and hiding it in a choir enclosed by a lectorium in accordance to the zone of aisles, there is a necessity for a scientific definition of beauty connected with the then contemporary stylistic changes. …”
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Development of a Japanese version of the patient perceptions of deprescribing – Short form by Mio Kushibuchi, Kenya Ie, Masaki Takahashi, Amy M. Linsky, Steven M. Albert

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Udmurdi hällilaul: veel kord esmaallika probleemist by Irina Nurieva

“…Apparently, he recorded it from his students, then reworked it for a four-voice choir. The lullaby was sung all over Udmurtia at that time. …”
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