Chorale

The term chorale (Latin adjective choralis to gr χορός Choros " Chorus" ) originally referred to the unanimous in the liturgy of the Western Church church music, also called Gregorian chant cantus Romanus. In the 14th century the cantus choralis immersive ecclesiasticus ( " moderate or choir singing church " ) speech, where choralis refers to the exporting Schola. The chorale music is so different from the figural.

In the 16th century in the Protestant parlance, the hymn as a cantus firmus, or chant melody as indicated ( appropriate composers: Johann Eccard, Michael Praetorius, Samuel Scheidt ).

From the 18th century the classic hymn as a whole is understood with melody and lyrics as a hymn. So also means the final in cantatas and oratorios verse " Choral".

In addition, organ arrangements of hymn sets are called chorale ( "Organ Choral" ). Occasionally, free organ chorale pieces with similar themes of their composers were also referred to as Choral (eg, the "Three Chorales " by César Franck ).

In the 19th and 20th centuries, the term also to a label within the secular music and refers to a diatonic, rhythmically simple, homophonic melody played movement, often of brass ( corresponding Composers: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Johannes Brahms, Anton Bruckner, Gustav Mahler Béla Bartók ).

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