orphéon

plural orphéons · alternative orpheon

1. A French male choral society.

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

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

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   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.

   1997, John Sandys Cornell, Social Harmony: Music, Modernism and the Mass Public in Nineteenth-Century France, University of Michigan, →ISBN, page 50

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

   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