Scourge songs
Geißlerlieder are the chants of the Geißler , who in the 13th and 14th centuries, especially in Italy and Germany, under the impression of oppressive political and social grievances and in anticipation of the end of the times , united to form penitential communities.
The first movement of flagellanti came from Umbria in 1258 and was strongly influenced by the Laude . The chronicle of Hugo Spechtshart from Reutlingen , among others, reports on a second Geissler movement, which originated in Austria in the plague year 1349 and which spread rapidly, and which also contains the texts and melodies of six Geissler songs in Gothic neumes . Of these, however, only the Lai Nu steps back to the flagellants themselves; the other songs come from older songs and are therefore an important source for the oldest German sacred folk song . In addition, two French Geißler songs influenced by the German have been preserved. The Rufzeile , the core of the spiritual folk song , is also characteristic of the Geißlerlieder. Of these lives Nu is betfart diu so here nor in 1666 in a procession Song of Songs collection Catholisch Mentally Nachtigal continued.
literature
- Riemann Musiklexikon , B. Schott's Sons, 1967, Sachteil, p. 322.
- The songs and melodies of the Geissler of the year 1349 based on the recording of Hugo von Reutlingen , Ed. P. Runge, Leipzig 1900 ( online ).