Come on, you guys
Come on, Ihr Gpiele is a folk song whose four-part movement is attributed to Melchior Franck (around 1580–1639). The round-like manner is dated to around 1537 and is in 6/4 time .
history
It is believed that the song was initially part of a Singspiel in which boys and girls tease each other and that it was part of the custom of driving out winter . English comedians brought it to the Netherlands; from there it spread to Germany. A similar use in summer profits is described for Thuringia.
Melchior Franck resorted to the folk song in one of the eight interludes of his Actus oratorius of the destruction of Jerusalem (1630).
Recordings
In 1989 the song appeared on the album Gesellige Zeit , on which it was interpreted by the Basel madrigalists under Fritz Näf and the Ensemble Galliarda Basel. The song was recorded in 2001 by the Augsburger Domsingknaben and released in 2005 on the CD album Kommt, Ihr Gpiele . It was also interpreted by the Windsbacher Knabenchor on its album Deutsche Volkslieder .
text
Come on, you games, we want to cool ourselves,
With this fresh
dew you will sing, it will ring out
in this floodplain .
Listen, you guys, the little dogs bark,
what shall we start?
Let's get, let's win,
summer lust win.
Hear, you boys, you black ravens, will
you fight with maids?
Defend yourselves gloriously, we will boldly argue
for the summer.
Up, brothers, sing high and low,
To win the summer.
Isn't it a shame, far in the country,
If we reflect.
All of you come with a loud noise,
We want to greet May,
If we sing right, it will sound,
Sweeten the time for us.
Web links
- Original movement and three stanzas (PDF; 21 kB)
- Do you come to play games in the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0001410283
- ↑ Friedrich Haarhaus song book for senior citizen work Munich 2007, p. 5.
- ↑ Cf. CF Becker The music in dramatic works in Germany before the introduction of the opera. Neue Zeitschrift für Musik Vol. 8 (33) 1841, p. 132
- ↑ Albrecht Classen, Lukas Richter Song and Songbook in the Early Modern Age. Folksong Studies Vol. 10 Münster 2010; P. 100
- ↑ Social time on muziekweb.nl