Historical-critical song dictionary

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The Historisch-Kritische Liederlexikon is an internet publication by the German Folk Song Archive with traditional and popular songs from German-speaking countries.

history

Since 2007, the songs have been researched according to their origin and impact history and the results with song texts and notations - often in different versions - are presented on the Internet, e.g. For example, in the case of Brothers, Sun, Freedom, six versions, one of which is a parody of Brothers in the Wartburg on Freedom .

The song lexicon is a long-term research project whose projects come from various funding sources, e.g. B. by the German Research Foundation , is financed. Eckhard John, the head of research, thinks “the term 'lexicon' is a bit misleading” and justifies this view: “We not only summarize previous research, but do our own research, because there is often no newer literature at all, especially not on history of songs in the last century. And if they do, then we also check, supplement and correct the sources. "

In addition, the song lexicon also offers "detailed scientific essays that present the history of a song comprehensively or examine individual distinctive aspects of its reception history" for some songs. B. O Christmas tree and in spite of it all . The historical-critical song lexicon wants to gradually present “a representative edition of traditional and popular songs from German-speaking countries”.

construction

An interdisciplinary team of scientists is gradually developing ("work in progress") the song repertoire for the following research objects:

and in addition, since the repertoire is based on an expanded understanding of the song, “the entire breadth of the German-language popular song in its most diverse facets”.

The 205 song monographs published up to April 2013 (with 1065 song editions) are each divided into three parts:

  • Edition of the texts and melodies
  • Reception history commentary
  • Source documentation

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Historical-Critical Song Dictionary of the German Folk Song Archive
  2. ↑ a b Christian Rath: Not a beautiful folk song dictionary. In: Badische Zeitung , May 21, 2008 ( online , accessed May 7, 2013)