Eight-song book

Title page

The eight- song book with the title “Etlich Cristlich lider / Lobgesang und Psalm” is the first German-language Protestant song collection, published in 1524. It is in a way the forerunner of all Protestant hymn books , together with the songbook by Johann Walter (also 1524) and the Erfurt Enchiridion .

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The script, which is more like "a loose bookseller's summary" of songs circulating as single-sheet prints rather than a systematically compiled hymn book, was printed by Jobst Gutknecht in Nuremberg at the turn of the year 1523/1524 . For camouflage reasons, the title page does not have Nuremberg but Wittenberg as the place of publication. The brochure contains eight songs on twelve pages (on five melodies), four of them by Martin Luther . Three are from Paul Speratus , and one has been anonymously and variously ascribed to Justus Jonas the Elder .

Songs

Now rejoice, dear Christians, gmein

Now rejoice, dear Christians common (Luther)
It is salvation we come here (Paul Speratus)
In God I believe that he has (Speratus)
Help God, how is man’s need (Speratus)
Oh God, look into it from heaven (Luther)
The unwise mouth speaks well (Luther)
Out of deep distress I cry to you (Luther)
In Jesus name we begin (anonymous, two-part sentence)

literature

Konrad Ameln (Hrsg.): The eight-song book. In a reprint true to the original [d. Edition] Nuremberg, 1523/24. In: Yearbook for Liturgy and Hymnology . 2 (1956), JSTOR 24189395 .

Konrad Ameln: The eight-song book from 1523/24: To our facsimile supplement. In: Yearbook for Liturgy and Hymnology. 2 (1956), pp. 89-91, JSTOR 24189313 .

Martin Rößler: book of eight songs. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, factual part, volume 3 (Engelberg - Hamburg). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1995, ISBN 3-7618-1104-7 , Sp. 1289–1323, here Sp. 1296 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)

Alexander Völker : hymn book . In: Theologische Realenzyklopädie (TRE). Volume 12, de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1984, ISBN 3-11-008579-8 , pp. 547-565 (especially p. 548).

Alexander Völker: hymn book . In: Religion Past and Present (RGG). 4th edition. Volume 3, Mohr-Siebeck, Tübingen 2000, Sp. 764-772, esp. Sp. 765.

Web links

Search for eight-song book in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation

Individual evidence

↑ http://www.uni-erfurt.de/forschung/einblicke/text-beitraege/die-reformation-und-ihre-lieder/#c83937 (accessed on: May 26, 2012).
^ Gerhard Hahn : The Gospel as a literary instruction. On Luther's position in the history of the German church song. Artemis, Munich, Zurich 1981, ISBN 3-7608-3373-X , p. 12.
^ Early German Lutheran and Reformation Hymnals. Retrieved November 13, 2009 .

[1] ttp://www.uni-erfurt.de/forschung/einblicke/text-beitraege/die-reformation-und-ihre-lieder/#c83937 (accessed on: May 26, 2012).

[2] Gerhard Hahn : The Gospel as a literary instruction. On Luther's position in the history of the German church song. Artemis, Munich, Zurich 1981, ISBN 3-7608-3373-X , p. 12.

[3] Early German Lutheran and Reformation Hymnals. Retrieved November 13, 2009 .