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‖ choragus|kɒˈreɪgəs|
Also choregus. pl. choragi, -egi.
[L. chorāgus, a. Gr. χορηγός (Att. and Dor. χορᾱγός), f. χορός chorus + ἄγειν to lead.]
1. Gr. Antiq. The leader of a chorus; spec. at Athens, one who defrayed the cost of bringing out a chorus. (Cf. chorus n. 1.)
1820T. Mitchell Aristoph. I. 202 The office of choregus or chorus-master, was both honourable and expensive. Each of the ten tribes furnished one annually. 1839Thirlwall Greece V. 261 Demosthenes..had..undertaken to act as choragus—to furnish a chorus—for his tribe, at one of the Dionysiac festivals. 1849Grote Greece (1862) VI. ii. lxvii. 31 The comic chorus in that early time consisted of volunteers, without any choregus.
2. The title of a functionary in the University of Oxford, originally appointed (in 1626) to superintend the practice of music; he now assists the Professor of Music in musical examinations, etc.
1626Dr. Heather Enactment in Grove Dict. Mus. s.v. If no one shall attend the meetings in the Music School, then the Choragus himself shall sing with two boys for at least an hour. 1880C. A. Fyffe ibid., In the year 1626, Dr. William Heather, desirous to ensure the study and practice of music at Oxford in future ages, established the offices of Professor, Choragus, and Coryphæus, and endowed them with modest stipends{ddd}no Choragus has either conducted or sung in the Music School within the memory of man. 1886Oxf. Univ. Calendar 26 (Choragus). Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, M.A., D.Mus., Exeter.
3. transf. and fig. The leader of a chorus, or of a choir; the leader of a band of any kind.
1727Warburton Prodigies 93 (T.) [He affirms] that in this fantastick farce of life..the whole machinery is of human direction; and the mind the only choragus of the entertainment. 1795Mason Ch. Mus. iii. 212 Here he might be considered as the Choragus. 1839Carlyle Chartism viii. 167 In this..sword-dance..Voltaire is but one choragus, where..Arkwright is another. 1874J. H. Blunt Dict. Sects s.v. Broad Churchmen, Colenso was at once elevated to the post of choragus by the bulk of the Broad Churchmen. 1901Fortn. Rev. Sept. 403 Professor Haeckel, who is denounced in some quarters as the very choregus of materialism. |