Devotional yodelers

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The Andachtsjodler (also: Sterzinger Andachtsjodler , Mettenjodler , Rauhnachtjodler , Jodlerandacht ) is an untextured sacred yodel song from South Tyrol that has its origins in the liturgical setting of Christmas mass . Today it is also widespread in other liturgical contexts, but also in secular contexts, especially in Bavarian-Austrian folk music.

The folklorist Friedrich Haider suspects that the yodel in its current form originated in the late 18th or early 19th century. Records indicate that the song was sung in Sterzing ( South Tyrol ) in 1830 during Christmas mass as an appendix to a shepherd's song. According to Konrad Fischnaler , it was still heard there in 1850 during the change from the Heiliggeistloch . Nevertheless, soon afterwards it seems to have fallen victim to the incipient Cecilianism and was largely forgotten. It was rediscovered by the Berlin high school teacher Max Pohl (1869–1928) from the area of ​​the Wandervogel movement . Annette Thoma used the yodel at her German Farmer's Fair (1933). The Salzburg Advent Singing also contributed to its popularity , at the end of which the yodel is regularly sung by the participants and the audience.

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The notation follows the two-part version of the folk song researcher Karl Liebleitner (1858–1942) from 1921, which corresponds to the Sterzing variant. There are also by Friedrich Haider, other variants of the Pflerschtal (of Gossensaß west) and the Pfitscher Valley (Sterzing east).

More recently, the devotional yodel is usually performed in three parts, often with instrumental accompaniment.

In some publications the traditional song text, consisting of yodel syllables, is followed by a newly added four-stanza poem, the author of which is unknown. It is unclear whether this additional text should be sung to the yodelling melody or whether it has its own melody. In the Liederkiste , a free online songbook, it is referred to as "alternative text ". It is sometimes sung in four voices by male choirs to the yodel melody.

Today at night
I watched high on the mountain,
because up there I can be
all alone with the Lord God.

Today at night
I thought high on the mountain:
Our world would be desolate and empty
if it weren't for the Lord God.

Today at night
I opened my heart, I
told the Lord God about
the misery in the world.

That night
he brought me friendly consolation.
Below rests the silent valley
Droben Sternlein without number.

literature

  • Werner Karl (Ed.): Songbook for mountaineers. 2nd Edition. Bergverlag Rother, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-7633-8006-X , p. 139 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  • Kiem Pauli : Collection of Upper Bavarian Folk Songs. 1934. Reprint: Old Upper Bavarian Folk Songs. Parkland, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-89340-002-8 , p. 294.
  • Brigitte Mantinger: The devotional yodeler . In: quarter time. Communication tool of the Upper Austrian Folksong Society. Vol. 2007, No. 3 (November), pp. 2.7–2.11 ( online ).
  • Walter Schmidkunz , Karl List, Wastl Fanderl (eds.): The body song book. Richters, Erfurt 1938. Reprint: Möseler, Wolfenbüttel 1988, ISBN 3-7877-1050-7 , p. 41.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Friedrich Haider : Tyrolean folk custom in the course of the year. 3. Edition. Tyrolia, Innsbruck / Vienna, Athesia, Bozen 1990, ISBN 3-7022-1578-6 , p. 441 f.
  2. ↑ a b Karl Liebleitner: Jokl, Hiasl, Hansl, Michl. In: Das deutsche Volkslied 23 (1921), ZDB -ID 543061-6 , pp. 76-77. Quoted from: Brigitte Mantinger: Der Andachtsjodler. In: quarter time. Communication tool of the Upper Austrian Folksong Society. Vol. 2007, No. 3 (November), pp. 2.7–2.11, here p. 2.8. ( online ).
  3. ^ Karl Zillinger: Salzburg Christmas. Sutton, Erfurt 2013, ISBN 978-3-95400-206-1 , p. 25 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  4. ↑ As an example, a three-part song accompanied by a harp .
  5. ↑ For example Brigitte Mantinger: Der Andachtsjodler. In: quarter time. Communication tool of the Upper Austrian Folksong Society. Vol. 2007, No. 3 (November), pp. 2.7–2.11, here p. 2.9. ( online ).
  6. ↑ Der Andachtsjodler with alternative text . Retrieved December 20, 2017.
  7. ↑ Devotional yodelers and Christmas bells . Report in the Badische Zeitung of December 20, 2011. Accessed December 22, 2017.