Choral breathing
Under chorischem breathing refers to a breathing technique for choir singers or horns of a multi-occupied vocal group , in which the listener in the acoustic picture no pauses in breathing can be seen. For this purpose, the musicians are instructed not to breathe in the places predestined for breathing , but in any other place that each musician individually selects for himself. It is also often accepted that individual musicians leave out notes while breathing.
With this technique, the individual musicians' pauses for breath are distributed and the impression of a continuous phrase without pauses is created . Choral breathing is not necessarily applied to entire pieces of music, but often only to avoid breathing pauses at selected individual points.
The choral breathing is also relevant in terms of the history of composition. While Hector Berlioz recommended inserting short breathing pauses for longer vocalized passages in his instrumentation theory (1844), Richard Strauss suggested in his commentary (1905) that the breathing points should be divided up within the vocal groups so that the breathing pauses would not have to be recorded in the composition .
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Instrumentation theory by Hector Berlioz , supplemented and revised by Richard Strauss , Leipzig: Peters 1905 (here: "Die Singstimmen", pp. 372–395). Full text on archive.org