Concept information
Preferred term
Vicars choral
Definition
- Officers of a cathedral whose duty it is to sing that portion of the music of the services which can be performed by laymen or men in minor orders. In some of the old cathedrals they formed a corporation, often jointly with the priest vicars. In many cathedrals the vicars choral were formerly in priests' orders. [OED, alt.]
Entry terms
- Choral vicars
- Lay clerks
- Lay vicars
- Priest vicars
- Vicars, priest
Notation
- 122613
In other languages
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French
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-WKK7QFGZ-X
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