chantey

variants or chanty or shanty

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Recent Examples of chantey The United States Navy Band Sea Chanters chorus is an outreach programs of the U.S. Navy and performs a variety of music ranging from traditional choral works to sea chanteys, patriotic fare, and even opera. oregonlive, 8 Mar. 2023 Ralph Tufo plays a sea chantey on his concertina. Cindy Cantrell, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2021 Sea chantey TikToks are choral performances that will never see the inside of a concert hall, even if the folks behind them get record deals. Angela Watercutter, Wired, 12 Apr. 2021 Sea Music Festival The 39th annual Sea Music Festival at Mystic Seaport features four days of workshops, concerts, a children’s stage with special performances and demonstrations of maritime work songs – or chanteys – aboard historic vessels. Hartford Courant, courant.com, 4 June 2018 Since 1871, the group has serenaded audiences with folk songs, love songs, show tunes, sea chanteys, and semi-classical music. Kathy Shiels Tully, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2018 Join a sea chantey sing along at 11:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. In honor of Earth Day, the Aquarium of the Bay is organizing volunteers to clean the Park’s Aquatic Park beach from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. https://AquaticPark EarthDay2018.eventbrite.com. Chronicle Staff Report, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2018 Primarily abandoning the ’80s-style synthesizers that coat much of their new studio material, the Decemberists relied on folk-rock and sea-chantey standbys — as well as the golden throats of prior collaborators Kelly Hogan and Nora O’Connor. Bob Gendron, chicagotribune.com, 11 Apr. 2018 The Sea Chanters, the U.S. Navy’s official chorus, is set to perform a variety of music ranging from traditional choral music, sea chanteys and patriotic fare to opera, Broadway and contemporary music. Linda McIntosh, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chantey
Noun
  • Step two: Seize the moment, in between chops and chants and CBS cutaways to Taylor Swift. Step three: Have Bo Nix deliver the most efficient outing in the biggest game of his NFL career.
    Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 6 Nov. 2024
  • The chants would probably not mention koobideh … but maybe?
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • There’s that earworm refrain, followed by formidably declarative verses, a powder keg of a chorus and a high-concept bridge.
    Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Could anyone utter these lofty words today without courting a chorus of snickers, a social-media immolation?
    George Packer, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Laura Marling: Patterns in Repeat [Chrysalis/Partisan] Laura Marling’s first album in four years is a trove of nocturnal ballads and introspective lullabies recorded in the room with her newborn daughter.
    Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Heretic Euphoric Dream Spray A soothing earthy citrus, consider this a lullaby in fragrance form.
    Celia Shatzman, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Speaking to Billboard earlier this year, frontman Grian Chatten discussed the creative leap the band took on Romance, which expands its sound to include elements of nu-metal, pop and string-laden ballads.
    Thomas Smith, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The day the cast sang the ballad in episode two was really powerful.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • If Mike Myers hadn’t created Austin Powers — whose series of films employs this instrumental ditty as a theme — somebody would’ve had to have come up with a similar character just to take advantage of the song’s limitless swag.
    Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Rita, being the daughter of a pub piano man, gets to sing live when the BBC arrives for a morale-boosting outside broadcast, and Ronan soulfully executes a sweet pastiche of 1940s ditties, composed by Nicholas Britell and Taura Stinson.
    Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Noun
  • At best, Gidden’s singing and arrangement of a Monteverdi madrigal achieve remarkable eloquence.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2021
  • After this is a setting of a Whitman poem for chorus a cappella in the style of a sixteenth-century madrigal, followed by a section in which a line from Dante’s Inferno is sung by a vocal trio in the style of a medieval motet.
    Walter Simmons, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
Noun
  • Since skyrocketing to viral fame online, though, locating his serenade subjects has become easier.
    Skyler Caruso, People.com, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The couple picked out outfits to wear for their date and received a private serenade from Wayne Newton.
    Dana Rose Falcone, People.com, 3 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • That’s the equivalent of the white nightgown in which so many female opera protagonists sing their dying arias just before the final curtain.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Still, Butterworth and Mendes display a wonderful theatrical intelligence throughout, particularly in the little showstoppers—musical performances, or arias of insult—that punctuate the night.
    Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2024

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“Chantey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chantey. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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