Phil Daley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> I guess I am missing something.
> Your 3 contexts are not about singers?
The Oxford English Dictionary tells of several varieties of chorus, of
which the first three are:
1) A band of singers and dancers, who perform at religious rites and
comment on the action of Greek tragedies;
2) A single person, narrating the bits of a story that it was not
feasible to act on the Elisabethan stage;
3) The planets in their dance round the sun.
I could find only two non-singing contexts, but since "choros" is the
Greek for dance, the first lot may initially have had that as their
principal function.
--
Ken Moore
Musician and engineer
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