Chief singer, and usually instructor, employed at a church, a cathedral or monastery.
Person who leads people in singing or sometimes in prayer.
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Examples for "precentor"
Examples for "precentor"
1The stipend of the precentor of Barchester was eighty pounds a year.
2John Nitschmann, as precentor, started the hymn; the procession to the Hutberg began.
3I think it was the music, or the painted windows, or the precentor.
4Tell the bishop and the precentor that you are needed elsewhere.
5And the old precentor hurried on to join the choir invisible.
1TimesLive report that the choirmaster himself has stood by the decision.
2If you met him, you would think he was a choirmaster.
3The choirmaster came to her assistance and eventually they managed to take him backstage.
4Actor and choirmaster Bert van Dijk believes everyone can sing.
5The choirmaster's hands flashed hither and thither, controlling, inspiring, directing.
The official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical part of the service and sings or chants the prayers intended to be performed as solos.
1Millie said she liked the Jewish cantor and the Irish Catholic policeman.
2There it was again, what the cantor had said and admired, then!
3So the cantor found himself all alone in a strange world.
4The pall bearers came, the minister and the cantor with the students' choir.
5The first of these famous pædagogues was the cantor, worthy Mr. Michael Kordé.
6Amen: Credo III Plainsong sung by the cantor, vocal ensemble and congregation Amen.
7He was born in Buffalo almost 50 years ago; his father was a cantor.
8I too, am first cantor and professor of plain song.
9He might now regard the cantor house, which was quickly gained, as his own.
10Jacques Offenbach was born in 1819 in Cologne, the son of a Jewish cantor.
11I started as a cantor right after the war.
12My husband has one of the finest cantor voices of any temple in the city.
13The grooms smashed their wine glasses underfoot as a cantor sang age-old blessings in Hebrew.
14When the cantor steps forward and sings, the music is the melody of sorrow and regret.
15While "town cantor" in Antomir he had received the highest salary ever paid there.
16The cantor began to shiver as with ague.