choirmaster's

The quality of any cathedral choir is governed by the standard of its trebles; they come and go so rapidly as the years pass and their voices break that to maintain a consistently high level is every choirmaster's headache.

Jonathan Dove: Choral Music, Wells Cathedral Choir/Owens, Jonathan Vaughn (organ) 2010

Again the choirmaster's voice, patient and wearied, began the refrain.

Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley Belle Kanaris Maniates

In the same book are found also (pp. 85 to 90) a series of extremely interesting comments on the choirmaster's temptation to use

Essentials in Conducting Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928

The second special problem mentioned at the beginning of this chapter is the management of the boys owning the voices which we have just been discussing; and this part of the choirmaster's task is considerably more complex, less amenable to codification, and requires infinitely more art for its successful prosecution.

Essentials in Conducting Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928

It should be a part of a choirmaster's business to translate and explain these texts to his choir, that they may be recited or sung with the understanding as well as with the voice.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

Well accustomed to produce his voice to good purpose, the choirmaster's words were clearly to be heard throughout the building, and it was on the subject of articulation and emphasis, and the like, that he was speaking; now and then throwing in an extra aspirate in the energy of that enthusiasm without which teaching is not worth the name.

Daddy Darwin's Dovecot: A Country Tale 1881

Then – swept from their seats by an upward sweep of the choirmaster's arms – the chorus rose, as birds rise, and carried on the strain.

Daddy Darwin's Dovecot: A Country Tale 1881

A few more notes from the organ, and then, as night-stillness in a wood is broken by the nightingale, so upon the silence of the church a boy-alto's voice broke forth in obedience to the choirmaster's uplifted hand:

Daddy Darwin's Dovecot: A Country Tale 1881

The choirmaster's hands flashed hither and thither, controlling, inspiring, directing.

Daddy Darwin's Dovecot: A Country Tale 1881

Then -- swept from their seats by an upward sweep of the choirmaster's arms -- the chorus rose, as birds rise, and carried on the strain.

Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863