Cäcilienode

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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

Stationers' Hall, location of the world premiere of the London Cäcilienoden

Further works unrelated to the London Society of Music

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)