Greetings, Queen

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Hail the Queen , Latin-German, 1728

Hail, Queen is a Catholic spiritual song based on the Marian antiphon Salve Regina , in which the Blessed Virgin Mary is venerated with a multitude of attributes and called for help in exile in this world . The first version was published by Johann Georg Seidenbusch in 1687. A six-verse version is in the Praise of God under no. 536.

Origin and history of transmission

Hail, Queen , Praise to God 536
Hail, Queen - Hail, Holy Queen
Hildesheim melody, which was received in the USA; see. Munster 1856

Seidenbusch's devotional book from 1687 bears the title Marianischer Schnee-Berg, or description of the devotion by Our Dear Frawen zum Schnee auff dem Berg zu Auffhausen ... Sambt Nine and twenty praise and praise songs . The song is there under the heading "A beautiful Salve Regina by which the weekly devotion to Auffhausen with the angels is concluded". The basic structure of the stanzas, which has not changed since then, is: two eight-syllable, masculine rhyming lines addressed to Mary, both ending in an acclamation , followed by a refrain in which the cherubim and seraphim are invited to join in the joy and sing along. The addresses of Mary are mainly taken from the Salve Regina, while the angelological refrain has no basis in the antiphon, but reflects the context of the Aufhausener angel devotion. Metrically , Seidenbusch's Kehrvers is still very different from the form later received; also the second line of reverse verse reads differently after each stanza. The melody printed by Seidenbusch was forgotten due to later text changes and new settings.

The song was soon missing in any Catholic devotional book; however, hardly any baroque print version is the same as another. In addition, the Latin version Salve, Regina coelitum ("Greetings, Queen of Heaven ") was created. At the beginning of the 18th century, the Kehrvers received the wording that is still used today. There was only one musically significant difference in the number of syllables: 7–7–7, as in the English version today, or 6–6–7 with a change of meter, as in the Praise of God version today.

The original version of the divine praise melody is in a Mainz hymn book from 1712.

In addition, another melody, related in many respects, was distributed, the original version of which is contained in the Hildesheim hymn book Geistliche Spiel- und Weckuhr from 1736. She emigrated with German emigrants to the USA and received the English text Hail, Holy Queen, enthroned above . In this guise, the song gained worldwide popularity through the film Sister Act (1992).

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Web links

Commons : Hail Queen  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Text and melody in Seidenbusch
  2. ↑ cf. Düsseldorf 1728
  3. ↑ cf. Hildesheim 1736
  4. ↑ Information in Praise of God
  5. ↑ Hail, Holy Queen, enthroned above in the Book of Worship for United States Forces , 2010, with the note "Hildesheim melody, 1736"
  6. ^ Sister Act: Hail, Holy Queen ( YouTube )