Chorus

Chorus (Lat.), name given to 3 instrs. of med. Europe: 1. the 9th-c. epistle to Dardanus by Pseudo-Jerome defines the chorus as a simple skin with 2 brazen pipes, a blowpipe, and a melody pipe— a primitive bagpipe, the earliest mention of such an instr. in postclassical Europe; 2. all known mss. with illustrations of the instrs. listed in the epistle in question (with one exception) also depict the chorus as a stringed instr. with 4 strings; as such it is mentioned in literary sources from the…