Graduation song

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The graduate song , now usually a weekly song or song of the week , is out of date and the main song is a component of the Protestant worship service . In addition to the psalm , the weekly saying and the reading texts, it belongs to the proprium of the respective Sunday or public holiday and is closely related to these. In the course of the divine service it is usually sung as a song by the congregation before the reading of the Gospel , which with the song picks up what has been heard in praise and adoration. The order of the weekly song and hallelujah song is inconsistent in the individual regional churches.

In the Protestant service book , the parts of the service, which change according to the church year and occasion, are given on every Sunday, feast day or occasion in addition to readings and sermon text, weekly saying and opening psalm as well as a weekly song.

history

The Graduallied on German stages Song ( Latin gradus , stage '), has its roots in the early medieval church. The gradual was part of the Roman mass as early as the 6th century . It was initially a psalm that was sung between the Bible readings , but in the course of a richer melodic development, especially the following alleluia , the gradual was shortened to a psalm verse ( psalmellus ). In Frankish times it became customary to sing it on the steps of the anvil , since the ambo was reserved for reciting the gospel; this explains the designation as a gradual song.

Martin Luther adopted the core of the pre-Reformation reading part in his German Mass . In his Formula missae (1523) he envisaged the gradual optional, in the divine service regulations for the German mass and divine service of 1526 instead a German song de tempore , initially as choral singing; later it became a church song.

In the Catholic Holy Mass , the gradual is still part of the proprium, for example in Gregorian chant . In the parish mass it is referred to as the answer psalm , but in many places a song that goes with the biblical texts is sung instead of a psalm as the answer of the congregation.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bettina Naumann: Introduction to the use of the EGb , Section 4. online
  2. ^ Josef Andreas Jungmann SJ: Missarum Sollemnia. A genetic explanation of the Roman mass. Volume 1, Herder Verlag, Vienna, Freiburg, Basel, 5th edition 1962, pp. 543ff.
  3. ^ Josef Andreas Jungmann SJ: Missarum Sollemnia. A genetic explanation of the Roman mass. Volume 1, Herder Verlag, Vienna, Freiburg, Basel, 5th edition 1962, p. 102.
  4. ↑ Markus Schmidt: Alleluia song and alleluia verse after the pericope revision. Theological reasons and practical consequences of the liturgical reorganization of 2018. In: Official Journal 2019 - No. 22, p. B 31 online