Unit songs
Standard songs are lists of German-language hymns that were created in the 20th century by the Catholic German Bishops' Conference in order to promote uniform religious songs in German-speaking Catholicism.
Standard songs 1916
In German-speaking Catholicism, too, the Reformation encouraged the emergence of native-speaking hymns. In pilgrimages , processions and devotions German songs were sung, and led to the formation of the German High Mass as a special form of the Catholic Mass liturgy .
A hymn book published by Heinrich Bone in 1847 called Cantate! experienced a wide distribution in Germany. Towards the end of the 19th century, as a result of the migration movements in the German population in the course of industrialization, a discussion about a general German church hymn book arose , initiated by the Münster-based Old Testament scholar Bernhard Schäfer. Concerns were expressed, however, because they feared that church chanting would suffer if such a book was to introduce new melodies to well-known hymns in many dioceses. The Cecilia Association - Gustav Erlemann had significant influence - instead initially advocated the creation of a list of standard songs.
The Fulda Bishops' Conference published such a list with 23 songs of 20 melodies on August 23, 1916.
“Their main purpose is to offer the opportunity at religious gatherings of Catholics from different German dioceses (e.g. pilgrimages, Catholic days, etc.) to be able to sing German hymns of a general character, which in all dioceses according to text and melody to match. In order to effectively achieve this so important and long-sought goal, these songs may in future only be sung in the manner presented here. "
However, because of the First World War , it was only possible to introduce this list into the German dioceses with hesitation. The desired commitment could not be enforced.
List of standard songs (1916)
Standard songs 1947/1949
A commission of church musicians under the direction of the Trier bishop Franz Rudolf Bornewasser , who had previously been director of the church music school St. Gregorius-Haus in Aachen, made a second attempt at a list of unified songs on behalf of the Fulda Bishops' Conference . The list of 74 songs was published on June 29, 1947 and prescribed by the Bishops' Conference as "compulsory songs" for inclusion in the church hymn books of all German dioceses. Archbishop Bornewasser referred in his preface to the “Authentic Complete Edition” to the lively “wish for a song common to all German Catholics”; The canon of songs may lead to the standardization , but also to the internalization of the church chant.
In addition to the so-called e-songs , another list of so-called e-songs (unit songs of the north-west German dioceses) was added in the summer of 1949 , which should not be included in the diocesan hymn books, but which should be published in the standardized version if they were included .
Most dioceses - including Austria - have now published their own diocesan prayer books, for which there was an urgent need after the end of the Second World War . In these books only the mass prayers in the version of the German standard text from 1928 and most of the e-songs were adopted. The standard songs in the diocesan prayer books of Aachen and Cologne as well as the common diocesan hymn book for Salzburg and Gurk (Carinthia) have been adopted in full .
When the common prayer and hymn book, Praise of God , was compiled in 1975, the reception of the standard songs was also checked. Austria had introduced only 45, and Switzerland only 21 of the 74 unit songs, and "not all unit songs had been proven in singing practice of municipalities", "many songs did not meet more today [liturgical, cultural and musical] requirements." In the praise of God from 1975 27 songs were recorded unchanged, 25 with only textual changes, one with only melodic changes, 11 with textual and melodic changes; 10 standard songs were not recorded.
List of standard songs of the German dioceses (e-songs)
The reception of the songs in the list of Common Hymns ("Ö-Lieder", 1973) as well as the Praise of God (editions 1975 and 2013 ) drawn up by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für ecumenisches Liedgut is also given , each with the number. In the case of textual deviations in the first line, the version in God's Praise 1975 is given in italics.
List of standard songs of the north-west German dioceses (e-songs)
literature
- Fulda Bishops' Conference (ed.): Standard songs of the German dioceses. Authentic complete edition. Christophorus-Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau, and Verlag B. Schott's Sons, Mainz 1947.
- Liturgical Institute (Ed.): Una voce. The unified prayers of the German dioceses and the unified songs. JP Bachem publishing house, Cologne undated (1950).
- Philipp Harnoncourt: Whole Church and Part Church Liturgy. Studies on the liturgical calendar of saints and on singing in church services with special consideration of the German-speaking area. Herder Verlag, Freiburg-Basel-Vienna 1974, ISBN 3-451-16742-5 .
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- ^ Bernhard Schäfer: Unity in liturgy and discipline for Catholic Germany. , 1891, reported in: Philipp Harnoncourt: Whole Church and Part Church Liturgy. Studies on the liturgical calendar of saints and on singing in church services with special consideration of the German-speaking area. Herder Verlag, Freiburg-Basel-Vienna 1974, ISBN 3-451-16742-5 , p. 377.
- ^ Foreword by the Episcopal Vicar General Franz Tilmann in: Hymns and Prayer Book for the Diocese of Trier. Paulinus-Druckerei, Trier 1917 (July 17, 1917).
- ↑ Philipp Harnoncourt: Whole-Church and Part-Church Liturgy. Studies on the liturgical calendar of saints and on singing in church services with special consideration of the German-speaking area. Herder Verlag, Freiburg-Basel-Vienna 1974, ISBN 3-451-16742-5 , pp. 378-390; Martin Persch: Unit songs article . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 3 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1995.
- ↑ Numbering according to: Philipp Harnoncourt: Total Church and Part-Church Liturgy. Studies on the liturgical calendar of saints and on singing in church services with special consideration of the German-speaking area. Herder Verlag, Freiburg-Basel-Vienna 1974, ISBN 3-451-16742-5 , p. 387ff.
- ↑ Philipp Harnoncourt: Whole-Church and Part-Church Liturgy. Studies on the liturgical calendar of saints and on singing in church services with special consideration of the German-speaking area. Herder Verlag, Freiburg-Basel-Vienna 1974; ISBN 3-451-16742-5 ; Pp. 392-396.
- ↑ Redaktionsbericht 190f., Quoted in: Hermann Ühlein: Kirchenlied und Textgeschichte Literary tradition formation using the example of the German Ascension song from the Enlightenment to the present. Königshausen & Neumann Verlag, Würzburg 1996; ISBN 978-3-8260-1081-1 ; P. 134f.
- ↑ Counting according to: Fuldaer Bischofskonferenz (Ed.): Unit songs of the German dioceses. Authentic complete edition. Christophorus-Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau, and Verlag B. Schott's Sons, Mainz 1947; in another count: Liturgical Institute (Ed.): Una voce. The unified prayers of the German dioceses and the unified songs. JP Bachem publishing house, Cologne undated (1950).
- ↑ “Ecumenical songs”, contained in: Working group for Christian songs (ed.): Common church songs. Songs of German-speaking Christianity. Berlin / Regensburg 1973, ISBN 3875370082 (Merseburger GmbH), ISBN 3791703560 (Pustet) (published on behalf of the Christian churches in the German-speaking area); after 1973 further Austrian songs were added.
- ↑ http://www.afk-freiburg.de/gotteslob/Gotteslob-Inhalt-vollstaendig-FR-RO.pdf
- ↑ O wonderful food
- ↑ In the transmission by Maria Luise Thurmair (1969)
- ↑ In the translation by Liborius O. Lumma (2008)
- ↑ “Ecumenical songs”, contained in: Working group for Christian songs (ed.): Common church songs. Songs of German-speaking Christianity. Berlin / Regensburg 1973, ISBN 3875370082 (Merseburger GmbH), ISBN 3791703560 (Pustet) (published on behalf of the Christian churches in the German-speaking area); after 1973 further Austrian songs were added.
- ↑ http://www.afk-freiburg.de/gotteslob/Gotteslob-Inhalt-vollstaendig-FR-RO.pdf