Hunting song
As Jagdlieder or Jägerlieder be folk songs referred to the issue of hunting and the hunting or in a broader sense nature themes, foresters , or even the poaching have to content. Hunting songs are particularly popular in Germany , Austria and Switzerland on social occasions. Hunting songs are widespread, especially in the context of driving bowls after the company hunts , which usually take place in autumn, and at bars of student hunting associations . In addition to the German hunting songs in standard language, there are also quite a few in dialect in Alpine folk music that are sung in Bavaria and Austria.
Some composers of classical music, such as Schumann or Mendelssohn, also created pieces that were explicitly titled Jagdlied and do not fall under the understanding of a hunting song as a folk song.
Occasionally, hunting songs were satirized in hits, an example of which is the song Jäger-Hosträger by Hans Lang and Erich Meder .
origin
Like other folk songs, hunting songs can have very different origins.
There is a mutual influence between hunter songs and soldiers songs. Wild geese rush through the night with its ostensible nature theme, for example, became popular through the youth movement and thus found its way into the canon of hunting songs. Another example is in the forest, in the green forest . On the other hand, poems, such as Hermann Löns ' Ich bin ein Free Game Rifleman, fit in well with the hunting tradition that is often present in the military and the ideal of masculinity associated with it. In the March Waidmannsheil by the military musician August Reckling , the hunting songs Im Wald und auf der Heide and Jäger's love song are quoted. The march was added to the army march collection in 1925 and thus contributed to the spread of the songs. It is still used today.
Pieces of music with hunting motifs by classical composers have also been included in the hunting songs. Franz Schubert's Jäger Liebeslied , Mendelssohn's Farewell to the Forest and the Jägerchor from Carl Maria von Weber's Freischütz enjoy some popularity.
Since the hunter is a popular fairy tale motif, he often appears in folk songs. There it is also often used to cover up sexual connotations. Examples of this are a hunter from the Electoral Palatinate and A hunter probably blew his horn . However, this does not detract from its use as a hunting song.
Well-known hunting songs (selection)
- Let's go hunting happily
- A hunter from the Electoral Palatinate
- In the woods and on the heath
- When the grouse mates
- In the green forest where the thrush sings
literature
- Johann Hayden: Sung Jagar. Hunter songs from Austria. Österreichischer Jagd- und Fischerei-Verlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 9783852081380 .
Web links
- List of German hunting and hunting songs, lieder-archiv.de
- The Gamserl black and brown , on YouTube
- When the grouse is courting , on YouTube
- Jäger - Suspenders , Maria Andergast & Hans Lang on YouTube
Individual evidence
- ↑ In the forest, in the green forest - A German folk and marching song. Retrieved August 1, 2020 .
- ↑ I am a free game shooter. Retrieved August 1, 2020 .
- ↑ Waidmannsheil | August Reckling | Siegfried Rundel. Retrieved August 4, 2020 .
- ^ Bundeswehr - Waidmannsheil March. Retrieved August 4, 2020 .
- ^ Deister and Weser newspaper publishing company mbH & Co KG Hameln: hunters in fairy tales and sagas - ViaSaga. Retrieved August 1, 2020 .
- ↑ A hunter probably blew his horn. July 19, 1560, accessed on August 1, 2020 (German).
- ↑ http://www.liederlexikon.de/lieder/auf_auf_zum_froehlichen_jagen
- ↑ https://www.lieder-archiv.de/im_gruenen_wald_dort_wo_die_drossel_singt-otenblatt_300158.html