The German hymn

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The German hymn (DKL), the scientific edition company that has set itself the task of melodies German hymns to sift, to collect and publish in book form. The edition is divided into three sections:

  • Division I: List of Prints
Bibliography of the printed musical sources of the German hymn from the beginning to 1800.

Published by the International Society for Musicology and the International Association of Music Libraries. Published as part of the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM) .

  • Section II: Complete edition of the melodies from handwritten sources
In cooperation with the Institute for Hymnological and Music-Ethnological Studies e. V. Kön, the Maria Laach office and the Zurich Central Library.
  • Section III: Complete edition of the melodies from printed sources
The melodies are edited after the first print; Spreads and readings are fully recorded. The classification is done chronologically according to source groups (author's prints, song sheets, multi-part compilations, agendas and hymn books ). Published by the Society for the Scientific Edition of the German Church Song e. V. Bärenreiter-Verlag

Work of Department III

Department III of the company Das Deutsche Kirchenlied is responsible for the scientific-critical complete edition of all printed melodies with a German sacred text from the beginnings (around 1481) to the year 1610. (The large nine-volume Musae Sioniae collection by Michael Praetorius was completed in 1610. ) The edition is based on around 1,650 prints from this period, as listed in the bibliography in Section I. They contain around 4,800 different melodies and melody versions, mostly unanimous, but also in polyphonic settings. Such an abundance of material is unique for a thematically limited edition; and over a period of a good five generations, it comes across in great diversity. The fate of the individual melodies is also very different. A not inconsiderable part of the edited songs belongs to the core stock of Lutheran, Reformed and Catholic songs and was printed several hundred times by 1610. On the other hand, there is also no lack of melodies that DKL III has recorded for the first time since its publication.

The edition was divided into music and text volumes. In the music volumes, the wise men are presented according to their oldest prints with the first stanzas of the texts there. A preamble illustrates the notation of the source and the selected transmission ratio. The commentary volumes provide information on the prints and melodies. (This also includes additions and corrections to the DKL I bibliography , which was published more than three decades ago.) The prints are described in a manner geared towards the edition; and each of the melodies contains a self-contained critical commentary. There, the transfer itself is first considered and provided with the necessary additional information (precise reference to the source; heading; any interference with the source, etc.); then all references, variants and texts of the melodies are recorded in the prints of the edition period. Information about any previous melodies is also provided. These also come into play very differently, their spectrum ranges from unchanged, simple re-texting to modifications on the verge of dissolution. Finally, the extensive literature references will be welcome to the user.

In order to cope with the considerable problems of arrangement and presentation that the mass and variety of the material inevitably raise, the prints are assigned to eight content groups; some of these are further subdivided. For their designation and the designation of the melodies, a new, separate system of symbols was developed, which has already gained a foothold in the relevant research. In chronological order, the individual volumes relate to excerpts of different sizes from the edition period; unlike the following volumes, the extensive volume 1 is divided into three deliveries and a register volume. Vol. 1–4 have appeared; The company has now completed a comprehensive commentary volume and a register for volumes 2–4.

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