Plural of chorale; multiple hymns, congregational songs, or choral compositions.
Regular English plural of chorale, from German Choral.
When musicologists talk about 'the chorales,' they often mean Bach's 371 harmonized chorale melodies—basically, the complete encyclopedia of how to properly harmonize a Lutheran hymn, still studied today in every music theory class.
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