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Hymn is a forwarding to this article. For further meanings see Hymnos .

A hymn (masculine, ancient Greek ὕμνος hýmnos , German ' tone structure' , post-Christian Latin hymn as a loan word with the meaning "praise God with song" or "song with praise God") or a hymn (feminine, secondary from the plural hymns ) is originally a solemn song of praise and praise. This gave rise to the hymn as a poem form as a spiritual song or a religious, lyrical poem (in contrast to epic, didactic and profane poetry). Hymns are an expression of great enthusiasm and admiration. In the Hymnology spiritual hymns and others are hymns explored. A distinction is also made between liturgical, extra-liturgical and Greek (or Syrian) hymns.

In addition, hymn is short for a national anthem or similar chants.

variants

Canticle or poem: hymn - hymn

• Especially in the ancient times , the hymn (the anthem) was a solemn hymn , the most for Kithara was recited and the heroes served, gods and nature worship -. Originally it was performed standing in epic meter , later in distiches and elaborate lyrical verses and then conceptually restricted to metrically or rhythmically praised songs of God and the saints.
• In Old Testament biblical studies , the hymn is a genre of psalms with a fixed two-part formal scheme. An introduction to praise YHWH is followed by the main section, in which the occasion and content of the hymn of praise are given.
• In late antiquity and in the Middle Ages : unanimous, polyphonic form of the spiritual song , which is still used today in the Liturgy of the Hours of the Roman Catholic liturgy and other Christian denominations; a hymn is part of every hearing .
• There are also funeral hymns. For example the cycle Dresden by Rudolf Mauersberger with the funeral hymn How is the city so desolate .
• In poetry , the hymn is a poem comparable to the ode ( hymn of praise ), see also hymn (poem form) . Such a poem is often written in free rhythms, without rhyme and without fixed stanzas.
• Since Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock , the hymn has been a solemn poem with serious, inspiring or contemplative content.

Other meanings

• Anthem is also the acronym for the national or state anthem .
• Rock anthems like Hymn , We Are the Champions or Wind of Change get the audience to sing along .
• There are also company anthems, club anthems, club anthems, party anthems, party anthems, etc.
• In student associations , color or federal songs have a similar function.
• In the reviews of the journalistic feature pages , unreservedly positive judgments about artists and their works are described as (praise) hymns (the opposite is the slipping ).

literature

• Hermann Kurzke : Hymns and songs of the Germans . Mainz 1990, ISBN 3-87162-018-1
• Erik Schilling: Liminal poetry. Free rhythm hymns from Klopstock to the present. Stuttgart 2018. ISBN 978-3-476-04646-8
• Fatih Tepebaşılı: Ulusal Marşlar ve Kimlikler. Edebiyat Bilimi Açısından Notlar. Nobel Yayın Dağıtım, Ankara 2004, ISBN 975-591-802-7 (National Hymns and the Identities)
• Jan Maarten Bremer , William D. Furley : Greek Hymns . Volume I: The Texts in Translation. Volume II: Greek Texts and Commentary. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2001 (Studies and Texts on Antiquity and Christianity, Vol. 9-10), ISBN 3-16-147527-5 (Vol. 1), ISBN 3-16-147553-4 (Vol. 2). Review: Andrew Faulkner, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002-05-36 online

Web links

Wikiquote: Anthem  Quotes

Wiktionary: Anthem  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Clemens Blume: Hymn. In: Michael Buchberger (Ed.): Kirchliches Handlexikon. A reference book on the entire field of theology and its auxiliary sciences. Volume 1: A-H. Allgemeine Verlags-Gesellschaft, Munich 1907, Sp. 2064 f.
2. ^ "Hymne", in: Wolfgang Pfeifer et al., Etymological Dictionary of German (1993), digitized version in the Digital Dictionary of the German Language, revised by Wolfgang Pfeifer, < https://www.dwds.de/wb/Hymne > , accessed on January 19, 2020.
3. ↑ See Duden online: Hymne and Hymnus
4. ↑ Clemens Blume: Hymn. 1907.
5. ^ Duden online: Hymnology
6. ↑ Clemens Blume: Hymn. 1907.
7. ^ Duden online: National anthem
8. ↑ Clemens Blume: Hymn. 1907.
9. ↑ Reinhard Müller:  Psalms (AT). In: Michaela Bauks, Klaus Koenen, Stefan Alkier (eds.): The scientific biblical dictionary on the Internet (WiBiLex), Stuttgart May 1, 2013, accessed on January 19, 2020.
10. ^ Kurt Schlueter: The English Ode. Studies of their development under the influence of the ancient hymn. Bonn 1964.
11. ↑ Duden online: hymn of praise