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The return to the main written melody following the chorus (improvised solo section) in a small group performance
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: jazz
Examples
- 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, https://books.google.ca/books?id=Nn6y4iHj6_MC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false 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 [...]
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To sing in chorus better, longer or louder than.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- 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, https://books.google.ca/books?id=uPsVAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false [...] the audience right loyally insisted on having "God save the King," and far out-chorussed the professional singers on the stage.
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