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This paper examines the relationship between chorus and community consciousness through an analysis of choral movements in 19th-century Germany. The first polyphonic form consisting of male and female voices created a community consciousness based on cooperation with others. But polyphony exists in tension with a simultaneous utterance of different melodies, and moves towards a stabler form. This form was included in unison choral movements derived from polyphonic choral movements. Unison chorus brings about a consciousness of homogeneity. From this derivation of unison, we can understand the German society as being oriented towards a ‘Volksgemeinschaft’—a purely homogeneous community.
