Beatmesse

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A beat mass is a Christian worship service , the musical design of which was initially based mainly on beat music from beat bands, but soon also included the New Spiritual Song and Christian Pop Music . It can be understood as a contemporary form of a mass composition . The term is derived from the Catholic Holy Mass , but was also transferred to services of other denominations and was celebrated ecumenically from the start.

history

The Catholic theologian Alois Albrecht is one of the pioneers of the Beatmesse ; In 1972 he wrote modern prayers and liturgical texts, which Peter Janssens set to music as a beat mass

From 1972 onwards, “beat measurements of great importance” were created. The pioneers include Alois Albrecht and Peter Janssens , who jointly created the work One has infected us as a beat fair.

The first major ecumenical and published beat fair dates from 1972/1973, is entitled Love is not just a word and was the joint work of several authors and composers. It was designed as an “ecumenical beat fair to sing along”. The texts came from Uwe Seidel and Diethard Zils ; the music of Oskar Gottlieb Blarr , Eckart Bücken and Peter Janssens . What was conceived and celebrated in 1972 as a project for the Düsseldorf Kirchentag 1973 , was stabilized and anchored in community life three years later.

In 1976, Pastor Eberhard Viertel founded the form of an ecumenical beat mass as a new type of worship service at the Protestant Johanneskirche in Cologne . Uwe Seidel was also a pastor at this parish. Between 1985 and 2000, the Beatmessen work became known nationwide under him: At church days, Beatmessen and Latin America Days filled the large meeting places, such as B. the Berlin Waldbühne or the Dortmund Westfalenhalle . Hanns Dieter Hüsch , Friedrich Karl Barth and Dietmar Schönherr were regular guests at the Cologne Beatmessen .

Other church congregations, especially in Germany, took up this worship format.

Beatmasses were created and celebrated, among other things, because the traditional rules of worship and the associated forms of speech with their limited variability and their strictly traditional character were perceived as "rigid and restorative". On the other hand, they wanted to set "creative worship experiments". Here, more open forms such as youth services and beat masses, taking into account popular music culture, played a major role.

shape

For Christian Grethlein , beat masses and beat church services are primarily located in the metropolitan environment. In terms of their characteristics, they are related to jazz services and youth services and can have other formal features beyond the musical aspect:

  • Sermons become speeches, are replaced by a conversation ( talk service ) or are dropped.
  • The form is freely designed without being strictly linked to traditional liturgies and worship forms .
  • The event is not tied to places of worship, but can also be located in other places in public space.
  • Beatmessen is aimed at an audience regardless of parish and denominational boundaries .
  • They are almost never celebrated on a weekly basis, but rather on specific occasions.

Since the beginning of this service work at the Johanneskirche in Cologne, regular beat measurements have taken place as an “innovative form of worship” with a “living liturgy” until today (as of 2020). An ecumenical project group and the local clergy of both denominations are behind the beat masses of the Johanneskirche. The band Ruhama is responsible for the music. The preachers strive to “tell the time from a personal and socio-political point of view”.

Sometimes beat masses contain the musical and liturgical basic elements of a classical mass, something like the Kyrie eleison , but also chants to prepare gifts . The measuring parts are often in the form of songs from the area of ​​the New Spiritual Song:

Beat measurement (selection)

Recordings

  • Love is not just a word. Ecumenical Beat Mass (1972) by Lothar Zenetti and Wilhelm Willms (texts), Eckart Bücken (composer), Peter Janssens (composer), the choir of the Neanderkirche Düsseldorf and the choir of the Thomaskirche Düsseldorf under the direction of Oskar Gottlieb Blarr . Label: Schwann AMS Studio 451.
  • Five breads and two fish - children's beat fair (1977), label: tvd 7706 Düsseldorf, with works by Eckhart Bücken, Jürgen Fliege , Peter Janssens, Christoph Lehmann and Hans-Jürgen Netz

Scores

  • Love is not just a word - ecumenical beat mass to sing along with, with a foreword and performance instructions, ed. by Oskar Gottlieb Blarr, Uwe Seidel and Diethard Zils, various composers, piano score with guitar names, Bosse Verlag Regensburg 1973
  • One infected us. Latin American Beat Mass (1977) by Oskar Gottlieb Blarr and Eckhart Bücken. Carus-Verlag, Stuttgart 2010.

Hymns in the context of beat masses (selection)

  • Our life is a celebration, Jesus' spirit in our midst , text and music: Peter Janssens (from: We have a dream , Beat Mass 1972) - today: Praise to God No. 715
  • Where people forget themselves, leave the path , text: Thomas Laubach , music: Christoph Lehmann - today: Praise to God No. 861 and in the Evangelical Hymn book Where we praise you, new songs grow - plus No. 93 as well as in the Methodist Church's hymn book No. 568

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Damberg, Ute Gause, Isolde Karle, Thomas Söding (eds.): God's Word in History - Reformation and Reform in the Church. Herder, Freiburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-451-80360-4 , p. 175.
  2. ↑ Bibliographical information from Bosse-Verlag Regensburg 1973
  3. ^ Homepage Beatmesse of the Cologne Johannesgemeinde , accessed on April 18, 2020
  4. ↑ Liturgical Compendium , ed. by Christian Grethlein and Günter Ruddat , Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3525572115 , p. 408
  5. ↑ Christian Grethlein: Church service needs youth. Theological and historical perspectives on a current topic. In: Arbeitsstelle Gottesdienst: Journal of the Joint Office for Church Service Issues of the Evangelical Church in Germany , Issue 1 (2018), 22nd year, ISSN  1619-4047 , pp. 5-14.
  6. ↑ Beat Mass with Feierabenbmahl , booklet from the Kirchentag on June 3, 2011 in tvd-Verlag Cologne, page 2 , accessed on April 23, 2020
  7. ↑ Where we praise you, new songs grow - plus (VS 4049). Strube, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-89912-211-4 , No. 93.