Cäcilienode
A Cäcilienode is a choral work in honor of St. Cäcilia of Rome , the patron saint of music and musicians.
Since 1683 it had become common in England that the London Society of Music celebrated the feast day of St. Cäcilia celebrated November 22nd every year in a special way: with a festive divine service, the subsequent performance of a composition in honor of Cäcilias in the Stationers' Hall , and finally a feast. Each year one of the Society's leading composers was commissioned to compose the choral work. This tradition was maintained for around 30 years with only a few interruptions. From the 18th century the regularity of the new compositions decreased, but until the middle of the 18th century new Cäcilienoden were composed again and again. In the years 1729–1739 in particular, seven more works were created, including the two contributions by Georg Friedrich Handel to the genre.
The texts of the odes were also rewritten annually in the first few years. In later years, some apparently particularly popular texts, e.g. B. by John Dryden and Alexander Pope , repeatedly set to music. The texts often contain characteristic sections in which certain instruments and types of music and the emotions aroused by them are mentioned. These often stimulated the composers to create lively imitative musical effects.
The composers and their works
- 1683: Henry Purcell : Welcome to all the Pleasures
- 1684: John Blow : Ode for an anniversary of musick kept upon St. Cecilia's Day , text by John Oldham
- 1685: William Turner : Ode for St. Cecilia's Day , text by Nahum Tate
- 1686: Thomas Fletcher : On the Feast of Caecilia. An ode
- 1687: Giovanni Battista Draghi : A Song for St. Cecilia's Day , text by John Dryden
- 1690: Robert King : A Song for St. Cecilia's Day , text by Thomas Shadwell
- 1691: John Blow: An Ode for the Anniversary Feast of St. Cecilia , text by Thomas d'Urfey
- 1692: Henry Purcell: Hail! Bright Cecilia , text by Nicholas Brady
- 1693: Daniel Purcell : An Ode on St. Cecilia's Day , text by Thomas Yalden
- 1695: John Blow
- 1697: Jeremiah Clarke : Alexander's Feast, or The Power of Music
- 1698: Daniel Purcell: Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: Begin the noble song , text by Samuel Wesley
- 1699: Gottfried Finger , text by Theophilus Parsons
- 1700: John Blow
- 1701: John Eccles
- 1703: Philip Hart
- 1711: Thomas Clayton
- 1729: John Stanley : The Power of Music
- 1730: Maurice Greene : Ode on St. Cecilia's Day , text by Alexander Pope
- 1736: Georg Friedrich Handel : Alexander's Feast
- 1737/38: Michael Christian Festing : A Song for St. Cecilia's Day , text by Joseph Addison
- 1737/38: William Boyce : An Ode for St. Cecilia's Day , text by Peter Vidal
- 1739: William Boyce: An Ode for St. Cecilia's Day , text by John Lockman
- 1739: Georg Friedrich Händel: Ode for St. Cecilia's Day
- 1759: Charles Burney : A Burlesque Ode on St. Cecilia's Day
- 1794: Samuel Wesley : An Ode on St. Cecilia's Day , text by Samuel Wesley (senior)
- 1800: William Russell , text by Christopher Smart
Further works unrelated to the London Society of Music
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier : In honorem Caeciliae, Valeriani et Tiburtij canticum H 394 (1676)
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Caecilia virgo et martyr H 397 (1677/78), H 413 (1684), H 415 (1685), each text by Philippe Goibaut
- William Walond (1757)
- Georg Valentin Röder : Cäcilia or The Celebration of Music (1822)
- Fanny Hensel : For the Feast of Saint Cecilia (1833)
- Benjamin Britten : Hymn to St. Cecilia (1942), text by WH Auden
- Gerald Finzi : For Saint Cecilia Op. 30 (1946/47), text by Edmund Blunden
- Herbert Howells : A Hymn to Saint Cecilia (1960), text by Ursula Vaughan Williams
- Michael Hurd : A Hymn to Saint Cecilia (1966), text by John Dryden
- Frederik Magle : Cæciliemusik (Cantata to Saint Cecilia) (1998), text by Iben Krogsdal
literature
- Charles Henry Biklé: The Odes for St. Cecilia's Day in London (1683–1703). 4 volumes. Dissertation, University of Michigan, 1982, OCLC 9841844 .
- Matthew Gardner: Handel and Maurice Greene's Circle at the Apollo Academy: The Music and Intellectual Contexts of Oratorios, Odes and Masques (= Treatises on the history of music. Volume 15). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89971-512-5 , pp. 203-270 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- Reinhold Hammerstein: Caecilia. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, factual part, volume 2 (Bolero - Encyclopedie). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1995, ISBN 3-7618-1103-9 , Sp. 309-317 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
- William Henry Husk: An Account of the Musical Celebrations on St Cecilia's Day in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. 1857 ( digitized in the Google book search). New edition: Cambridge University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-1-108-08032-3 .
- Rosamond McGuinness, Tony Trowles: Ode (ii): (iii) Odes for St Cecilia's Day. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
- Tony Trowles: Ode: III. The Ode in England and Ireland in the 17th and 18th centuries. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, factual part, Volume 7 (Myanmar Sources). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1997, ISBN 3-7618-1108-X , Sp. 567-570 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)