orphéon

English

Alternative forms

• orpheon

Etymology

From French orphéon.

Noun

orphéon (plural orphéons)

1. A French male choral society.
   • 1997, John Sandys Cornell, Social Harmony: Music, Modernism and the Mass Public in Nineteenth-Century France, University of Michigan, →ISBN, page 50:

     It was but a short step, therefore, from the harmony of the orphéons to an ideal of harmony in the workshops and factories, and within the social body as a whole.

   • 2015, Sophie-Anne Leterrier, “Choral Societies and Nationalist Mobilization in Nineteenth-Century France”, in Krisztina Lajosi, Andreas Stynen, editors, Choral Societies and Nationalism in Europe (National Cultivation of Culture; volume 9), Brill, →ISBN, page 51:

     Every orphéon had its emblems, uniforms (an expression of uniformity, as in schools), banners, medals, conviviality, and shared memories.

   • 2019, Janet Sturman, editor, The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture, SAGE Publications, →ISBN:

     For example, the orphéon of Algiers is recounted to have had, at one point, approximately 600 members.

Related terms

• orpheonist

References

• “orphéon”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

orphéon m (plural orphéons)

1. (music) choral society

Derived terms

• orphéonique
• orphéoniste

Further reading

• “orphéon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.