Choir practice

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Kantoreipraxis is a term from church music that describes a performance practice of choral works in the style of the old choirs.

In 1951, Helmut Bornefeld defined the choir with the words: "Today we understand a choir as a circle made up of voices and instruments, which does not treat the voices as a choir and the instruments as an orchestra , but instead occupies the lines interchangeably according to the respective sound material."

In 1957, Wilhelm Ehmann pointed out the literal meaning of the term Kantoreipraxis : "Kantoreipraxis is understood, literally, to mean the music-making practice, that is, the music-making of the cantories."

In 1967, Helmut Krüger wrote the standard work of the Kantoreipraxis Small Choir - Very Large , in which he shows the diverse design possibilities of choral works through voices and instruments.

In 1982, Christoph Albrecht pointed out that early baroque music texts only offer approximate instructions for making music in practice: “The first thing that must be clear to anyone who performs early baroque vocal music is the fact that the score means little more than a sketch for the performance . The choirmaster must be gifted with imagination and develop a colorful and varied piece of music from the pale musical text, depending on the spatial and scoring conditions. ”An important contemporary source on early baroque choral music is the Syntagma musicum by Michael Praetorius .

Helmut Kickton implemented an aspect of old performance practice by placing the choir in front of the orchestra from 2000 onwards at the performances of the Kreuznacher Diakonie Kantorei . With the Kreuznacher Diakonie Kantorei, he also developed the concept of the integrative Kantorei .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Bornefeld: What is a Kantorei? , in: Der Kirchenchor , Bärenreiter-Verlag, Issue 4, 1951.
  2. ↑ Wilhelm Ehmann: The choir practice in our trombone choirs , in: Der Chorleiter , Heft 2, 1957.
  3. ↑ See Wilhelm Ehmann: Kirchenchor und Posaunenchor , in: Der Kirchenchor , Bärenreiter-Verlag, Issue 5, 1949.
  4. ^ Helmut Krüger: Small choir - very big , Edition Merseburger , 1967.
  5. ↑ Christoph Albrecht: Interpretation questions: Problems of church music performance practice from Johann Walter to Max Reger. 1524-1916. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1982, ISBN 3-525-57174-7 .