CANTOR
Cantor
The Cantor, sometimes Precentor, or the Protopsaltes is the chief singer, and usually instructor, employed in a cathedral or monastery with responsibilities for the ecclesiastical choir and the preparation of the divine services in the context of a secular or monastic liturgy. The cantor's duties and qualifications have varied considerably according to time, place, and rite, and often its prestige was so high that it came close to the highest offices in the ecclesiatical hierarchy, for instance monastic cantors promoted to the office of an abbot or abbess. Sometimes the office was connected with administrative, militaric, and governmental ...The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Cantor (church)
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cantor
Noun
- singer, especially someone who takes a special role of singing or song leading at a ceremony
- The cantor's place in church is on the right of the choir
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