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A Hofweise is a musicological term for a special form of German song during the Renaissance .
Court tunes, as the name implies, come from a courtly environment and were written by composers who were employed at prince and imperial courts and who were responsible for maintaining the court. The texts of court tunes are often indebted to the forms and topoi of traditional minstrels ; the melodies are not based on popular folk songs, but are usually new creations using bar and reprise forms.
Typical representatives are Heinrich Isaac , Paul Hofhaimer or Ludwig Senfl .
The term was introduced in 1929 by the musicologist Hans Joachim Moser in his monograph on the composer and organist Paul Hofhaimer; it serves to further differentiate melodies from German songs of the 15th and 16th centuries (and especially tenor songs ) according to their origin; Moser differentiates between “court tunes” and “folk songs”.
More modern research has criticized the term “Hofweise” as inadequate, but no better term has been found to date.
literature
- Christoph Petzsch: Court wise men. A contribution to the history of the German song century . In: German quarterly for literary studies and intellectual history . tape 33 , no. 3 , 1959, pp. 414-445 .
- Franz Viktor Spechtler: Hofweise. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7001-3044-9 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Joachim Moser : Paul Hofhaimer: a song and organ master of German humanism . With Hofhaimer's collected works as an appendix. Cotta, Stuttgart 1929, p. 71 ff .
- ↑ Peter Jost : song. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, subject part, volume 5 (Kassel - Meiningen). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1996, ISBN 3-7618-1106-3 , Sp. 1273 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)