In dulci jubilo

In dulci jubilo in Klug's hymn book (1533)

In dulci jubilo

In dulci jubilo ( "In sweet joy" to lat. Dulcis "sweet", late Latin. Iubilum "Cheers") is a derived from the 15th century hymn that is sung primarily during the Christmas season.

Emergence

The lyrics of the song, a “macaronic” poem (i.e. it consists of a mixture of two languages), is attributed to Heinrich Seuse . This makes the song a trope of the Latin text from the Middle Ages. The oldest known tradition of the text can be found in a codex in the Mainz City Library ( HÄs I 164 ).

Earliest tradition of “In dulci iubilo” in the theol. Collective manuscript Hs I 164, fol. 200v the Wiss. Tax office Mainz, end of the 14th century; Provenance of the Mainz Charterhouse

It appeared for the first time in a song collection around 1400, in a secured version by Peter von Dresden in 1440.

Depending on the version, the song contains between four and six stanzas, initially ten lines, but now eight lines. The song was first printed in Klug's hymn book from 1529, without the (4th) Marian strophe.

The alternating Latin-German version is in the Catholic prayer and hymn book Gotteslob under the number 253, a completely German version Nun singet und sei froh , which first appeared in a Hanoverian hymn book in 1646, can be found today in the Evangelical hymnal (EG 35).

reception

• Well-known versions in the sentence come from Michael Praetorius and Johann Walter .
• There are numerous other arrangements, such as Johann Sebastian Bach's Choral Preludes BWV 608 and BWV 729.
• The Lübeck organist and composer Dieterich Buxtehude wrote a cantata of the same name (BuxWV 52), published by Bärenreiter Kassel 1977/2003 ( ISMN 979-0-006-40397-4 (search in the DNB portal) ), as well as MDH Nördlingen 2000 and in Carus Publishing House Stuttgart 1968/1991.
• Mike Oldfield released an instrumental arrangement of the song in an Irish jig rhythm in 1975 that became a pop hit. Die Toten Hosen offered a punk version of this Christmas carol in their 1998 album We wait for Christkind .
• Ludger Stühlmeyer composed a piece for the flute, In dulci jubilo. Aus-Flug für Querflöte , published in 2015 by Sonat-Verlag ( ISMN 979-0-50254-034-0 (search in the DNB portal) ), in which he extends the major-minor tonality of the song with Ashkenazi modal phrases.
• The Pomeranian state trombonist Hans Peter Günther wrote a "grandiose" version with a trombone choir.

Translations

Translated into Danish several times by Thomissøn, Kingo, Pontoppidan and others (and accordingly also in older Danish church hymn books ; Latin-German 1569), revised by Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig , 1837, and then incorporated into the Danish hymn book Den Danske Salmebog , Copenhagen 1953 , No. 95, and in Den Danske Salmebog , Copenhagen 2002, No. 116 (“En sød og liflig he sounded i vor julesang ...”).

literature

• Konrad Ameln : The Cantio “In dulci jubilo”. In: Jahrbuch für Liturgik und Hymnologie 29 (1985), pp. 23-78.
• Ludwig Erk , Franz Magnus Böhme (Hrsg.): Deutscher Liederhort . Volume 3. Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1894 (reprint: Olms, Hildesheim 1963) pp. 636–639 ( digitized version ).
• Clytus Gottwald : In dulci jubilo. Morphogenesis of a Christmas carol. In: Jahrbuch für Liturgik und Hymnologie 9 (1964), pp. 133-143.
• Anne-Dore Harzer: In dulci jubilo. Versions and reception history of the song from the 14th century to the present. Francke, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 3-7720-8128-2 .
• August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben : History of the German hymn up to Luther's time. Along with an appendix: In dulci iubilo, now sing and be happy. 3. Edition. Dümler, Hanover 1861 ( digitized version ).
• Gisela Kornrumpf : In dulci jubilo. New aspects of the transmission history of both versions of the Christmas carol. In: Johannes Spicker (Ed.): Edition and Interpretation. New research paradigms on Middle High German poetry. Festschrift for Helmut Tervooren. Hirzel, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-7776-1038-0 , pp. 159-190.
• Hermann Kurzke : In dulci jubilo. In: Hansjakob Becker u. a. (Ed.): Geistliches Wunderhorn. Great German hymns. CH Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-48094-2 , pp. 51-59.
• Theo Mang, Sunhilt Mang (ed.): The song source . Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0850-8 , pp. 1000 f .
• Joseph Smits van Waesberghe: The Christmas carol In dulci jubilo and its original melody. In: Lothar Hoffmann-Erbrecht, Helmut Hucke (Ed.): Festschrift Helmuth Osthoff on the 65th birthday. Tutzing 1961, pp. 27-37.
• Alexander Völker : 35 - Now sing and be happy . In: Gerhard Hahn , Jürgen Henkys (Hrsg.): Liederkunde zum Evangelisches Gesangbuch . No. 5 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-525-50326-1 , pp. 31–35 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Ingeborg Weber-Kellermann : The book of Christmas carols. 11th edition. Schott, Mainz 2004, ISBN 3-254-08213-3 , pp. 35-37.

Web links

Commons : In dulci jubilo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: In dulci iubilo  - sources and full texts

• Sheet music in the public domain of In dulci jubilo in the Choral Public Domain Library - ChoralWiki (English)
• In dulci jubilo in the song project of SWR2 and Carus-Verlag
• Text and melody in different versions
• In dulci jubilo in the Christian song database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mainz, Stadtbibl., Hs. I 164 in the manuscript census .
2. ↑ Cf. Otto Holzapfel : Lied index: The older German-language popular song tradition ( online version on the Volksmusikarchiv homepage of the Upper Bavaria district ; in PDF format; ongoing updates) with further information.