Chorus (m)
(with) definite article: illum [this]Bagpipe, mouth-blown: nr. of stocks? (chanter type? / [additional] drones? [in ? stocks])
From Latin "corium" [skin/leather/hide] ?; From a spurious 9th century letter of St. Jerome [Hieronymus] to Dardanus; Also mentioned in »The Edinburgh encyclopædia«, conducted by David Brewster, Volume III (Edinburgh, M.DCCC.XXX [1830]), and in Paul Lacroix & Ferdinand Seré, »Le Moyen Age et la Renaissance, ...« (Paris, 1851); NB¹: Later described as a chordophone, and in the late 1900s the term Chorus has been used to indicate the bagpipe depicted in miniature nr. 260 of the 13th century manuscript »Cantigas de Santa María« (➺ Odrecillo); NB²: In Utriculus № 55 Gioielli states that the Chorus was "perhaps not real a bagpipe, but rather a bladder pipe" (which is, in my perception, a rather awkward remark, in which he shows a mixture of doubt and his (yet) unexplained opinion; ws); NB³: ➺ Zamboja.
Sachs, Curt: Real-Lexikon der Musikinstrumente: zugleich ein Polyglossar für das gesamte Instrumentengebiet [Berlin, 1913]. Hildesheim, 1964 [facsimile].
Baines, Anthony: Bagpipes [1960]. Oxford, 1973 (revised), p.67.
Širola, Božidar: Sviraljke s udarnim jezičkom [Aerophones with a beating tongue]. Zagreb, 1937, p.349, 374.
Sachs, Curt: The history of musical instruments. New York, 1940, p.281.
Lacroix, Paul & Seré, Ferdinand: Le Moyen Age et la Renaissance, histoire et description… en Europe, IV (Paris, 1851), deuxième partie; Instruments de musique.
Day, C.R. [Charles Russell]: A descriptive catalogue of the musical instruments recently exhibited at the Royal Military Exhibition, London, 1890. London, 1891, p.53.
Flood, Wm. H. [William Henry] Grattan: The story of the bagpipe. London, 1911, p.21 & passim.
Collinson, Francis: The bagpipe: the history of a musical instrument. London, 1975, ➺ p.126.
Alexandru, Tiberiu: Instrumentele muzicale ale poporului român. Bucureşti, 2014 (Reprint of Instrumentele muzicale ale poporului romîn, Bucureşti, 1956), p.76.
Anonymous: Caption to a print of miniature 260 in the collection of Dr. Fritz Schneider, Krefeld.
Marcuse, Sibyl: Musical instruments: a comprehensive dictionary. New York, 1975.
Podnos, Theodor H.: Bagpipes and tunings. Detroit, 1974, p.19, 26 (»Sachs, History; »Marcuse; »Day, Catalogue).
Utriculus, nuova serie XVI (54), II semestre 2017, Miscellanea zampognara, p.77-79: “The chaunter” (➺ p.78: »Brewster, p.195-196).
➺ ibidem, p.87-88: “Chevrelle, chièvre, chevrie, cabretta” (»Lacroix/Seré).
Utriculus, nuova serie XVII (55), I semestre 2018, Miscellanea zampognara, p.83-88: “Antiche zampogne” (➺ p.86: Medioevo).
Kuhač, Franjo Š. [Šaver]: Prilog za poviest glasbe južnoslovjenske: Gajde [Contribution to the history of South Slavic music: Bagpipes]. In: Rad jugoslavenske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti, knjiga L (Zagreb, 1879), p.73 [3x (»Jerolim)], 73¹ (Chorus / chorum [acc. (»Jireček)]), 76.
Jacquot, Albert: Dictionnaire pratique et raisonné des instruments de musique anciens et modernes. Paris, 1886, p.37.