![]() Repertory can also mean “repertoire” or “repository” (a place where things of any type are collected), but it usually means “repertory theater. Victoria joined a repertory after college to get acting experience. The songs that I have ready at my finger tips are Maple Leaf Rag, Clair de Lune, Chopins Waltz in A minor (left hand melody), Chopins Nocturne in E-flat, Bachs prelude in fugue in c minor, Girl with the flaxen hair. Repertory is also a noun, but often used like an adjective, as in the terms repertory theater and repertory company-a theater, or theatrical company that performs a collection of different works each season: In the meantime, I am trying to build up my repertoire in order to prepare for all of the talented people there. (repertoire of foods she can prepare)Īny action that can be imagined as a repeated performance can belong to a repertoire. (repeated lies)Ĭhili dogs are not in Sally’s repertoire. That politician has a huge repertoire of lies. I have to really get behind it and understand it and like it. ![]() When I do a cover, something that somebody else has written, I think about it very carefully before I sing that song. : a supply of skills, devices, or expedients. My repertoire of gypsy jazz songs is very small I only know a few songs.īut repertoire can be used, metaphorically, for all kinds of things: I have a repertoire of songs that Im proud of, that Ive written for my own band. : a list or supply of dramas, operas, pieces, or parts that a company or person is prepared to perform. Repertoire means “a collection of works in the performing arts (in music, drama, dance, etc.) known by a particular performer (person or group), or created by a particular composer, or thought of as a collection for other reasons, such as genre.” Most often, it has the first meaning-all the works known by a particular performing artist or group: The origin of these words, Latin re-parare, means to “re-produce” (to produce again), and both words concern creative works that can be performed again and again. Of these two nouns, repertoire is much more general, while repertory has a related, narrower meaning.
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