I dreamed this night

I dreamed the night at Erk / Böhme 1894

I dreamed the night is a German folk song .

The melody was known before 1775. Friedrich Nicolai printed it in 1777 in the Feynen kleynen Almanach with the text A hunter wants to hunt as a folk tune . The songs The leaves fall from the trees (text: Siegfried August Mahlmann 1805), Beautiful children love and Zu Koblenz auf der Brücken were sung to her.

According to August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben , the text is probably by August Zarnack , who published the song under the title The Heavy Dream in the second volume of his collection of German folk songs for elementary schools , Berlin 1820.

Rosemary is used in this text as a symbol of death : in northern Germany rosemary was used as grave planting, and in some places mourners wore rosemary stalks at funerals.

text

I dreamed that night,
probably a heavy dream, a rosemary tree
grew in my garden
.

The garden was
a churchyard, the grave was a flowerbed,
and the
crown and blossom fell from the green tree .

I would collect the blossoms
in a golden jug,
which fell from my hands so
that it broke into pieces.

From there I saw pearls trickling down
and droplets of rose-red:
What may the dream mean?
Oh love, are you dead?

Edits

Johannes Brahms wrote a choral setting for women's choir WoO 36 No. 4. In 1899, Max Reger published a set of the song for mixed choir ( SATB ) a cappella as well as one for men's choir as No. 5 in his 8 selected folk songs, New Series under No. 4 5 selected folk songs . Carl Banck , Hugo Distler , Jan Albert van Eijken , Karl Graedener , George Henschel , Ernst Isler , Heinrich Kaminski , Julius Joseph Maier , Erich J. Wolff , Helmut Barbe and Wolfram Buchenberg have arranged other arrangements as an art song or choral setting . On their third studio album Gmües (1994) the Bernese dialect band Patent Ochsner presented their version I Ha Letscht Nacht e Troum Gha . The German electro band Heimatærde released the EP Ich hab die Nacht traeumet in 2004 . The "classic band" Spark plays the song in their own arrangement on their second album Folk Tunes , it is sung by Kitty Hoff . There is a big band version by the RIAS Big Band Berlin on the album German Folk Songs - Our Way , recorded in 1997 under the direction of Jiggs Whigham . In the soundtrack of the strategy game Civilization VI , the song runs through the entire game in an adaptation by Geoff Knorr .

literature

• Ludwig Erk , Franz Magnus Böhme (Hrsg.): Deutscher Liederhort . Volume 1. Leipzig 1893-1894 (reprint: Olms, Hildesheim 1963), p. 618 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Thomas Friz , Erich Schmeckenbecher (Ed.): A farmer wants to get up early. 222 folk songs. Plans, Dortmund 1978, ISBN 3-88569-001-2 , p. 94.

Web links

• Frauke Schmitz-Gropengiesser: I dreamed the night (2012). In: Popular and Traditional Songs. Historical-critical song lexicon of the German Folk Song Archive
• I dreamed the night in the song project of Carus-Verlag and SWR2.
• Text, melody (MIDI) and explanations at ingeb.org
• Recording of the folk song with Hella Boccara (vocals) and Karsten Kramer (piano)
• Recording of the folk song with the group nordvind

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Friedrich Nicolai : Eyn feyner kleyner Almanach full of beautiful, genuine, lively folk songs, funny Reyen vnndt of the Klegian murder story. Volume 1. Berlin a. Stettin 1777, p. 76 ff. ( Digitized in the Google book search).
2. ^ Ernst Klusen : German songs. Texts and melodies. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-458-04855-2 , p. 83 u. Note p. 824.
3. ↑ August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben : Our folk songs. 3. Edition. Engelmann, Leipzig 1869, p. 78 ( digitized in the Google book search).
4. ^ August Zarnack: German folk songs with folk tunes for elementary schools. Part 2. Maurer, Berlin 1820, p. 28 ( digitized version ).
5. ^ August Zarnack: Weisenbuch to the folk songs for elementary schools . Second part. Maurer, Berlin 1820, p. 50 ( digitized in the Google book search).
6. ↑ quoted from: Ernst Klusen (Hrsg.): Deutsche Lieder. Texts and melodies. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-458-04855-2 , p. 265.
7. ↑ Johannes Brahms: I dreamed the night , work information at Klassika.info
8. ^ Max Reger: 8 Selected Folk Songs, New Series : Sheet Music and Audio Files in the International Music Score Library Project
9. ↑ Universal Edition  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ I dreamed the night at The LiederNet Archive
11. ↑ Heimatærde: Discography
12. ↑ RIAS Big Band Berlin: Our way: German folk songs ... , DNB 357690427
13. ↑ Germany Theme - Atomic (Civilization 6 OST) | I dreamed the night on YouTube