0 one of a group of people who sing together in a choir, either in a cathedral or in a special school connected to a university --
I was a cathedral chorister for the first part of my life.
Quite the opposite is the case with the treble choristers, who simply repeat text or music, such as the fool prophesy or the communion text and motifs.
The use of the plural form to indicate the choristers refers to the standard division of the vocal chorus into two groups, each with soprano, haute-contre, tenor and bass voices.
The male choristers are not listed; perhaps their costumes and props were not as elaborate as those for the female singers.
These tableaux serve as counter-myths that compact a more complicated image of the chorister.
As noted in the essay above, upstage entrances for the choristers were apparently the exception to the rule.
Although the dancers enter with the choristers, they exit alone; and although they enter dancing, they exit after their dance has ended.
This exception to the traditional simultaneous entrance of choristers and dancers may be explained by the deployment of traps.
