Cuckoo, cuckoo, calls from the forest

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Cuckoo, cuckoo calls from the forest ,
text and melody version 1868

Kuckuck, Kuckuck, ruft's aus dem Wald is a song for the beginning of spring in Marchknown throughout the German-speaking area, the text of which Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798–1874) wrote in 1835 and published in 1837 without a melody. It was firstprinted in1842 with the melody of the folk song Stieglitz, Stieglitz, 's Zeiserl is Krank , which has beenhanded downfrom Austria and Bavaria since 1817.

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The harmonious text and the catchy melody made the song small in the family, kindergarten and elementary school next to Hänschen and Kommt ein Vogel geflogen to one of the first children's songs .

The text

Cuckoo , cuckoo calls from the forest.
Let's sing, dance, and jump.
Spring, it will soon be spring.

Cuckoo, cuckoo doesn't let its screams:
Come to the fields, meadows and forests.
Spring, spring, introduce yourself.

Cuckoo, cuckoo, excellent hero.
You succeeded in what you sang.
Winter, winter clears the field.

Musical structure

\ relative c '' {\ autoBeamOff \ key f \ major \ time 3/4 c4 a4 r4 | c4 a4 r4 | g4 f4 g4 | f2. | \ break g4 g4 a4 | bes2 g4 | a4 a4 bes4 | c2 a4 | \ break c2 a4 | c2 a4 | g4 f4 g4 | f2. \ bar "|." } \ addlyrics {Kuk - kuck, Kuk - kuck, calls from the forest. Let 's sing, dance and jump, spring - it will soon be spring. }

The piece is limited to the pitch space of a fifth (F - C) . Only the second and minor third occur at intervals . The third jump (like the cuckoo call in nature) only occurs in a falling form. Bars 1 and 2 contain only thirds, bars 3 to 5 only seconds, and bars 6 to 8 use seconds and thirds mixed together. The last four bars again only use thirds at first, and then only seconds. The song corresponds to a song form A - B - A ' (or A1 - A2 - A1' ). The A part starts in the tonic , while part B is in the dominant . A ' differs from A in that it ties in with B , and takes over the rhythmic model of half and full notes from bars 6 and 8 instead of bars 1 and 2 (two quarters and quarter rest) in bars 9 and 10. While the A parts have a more downward-looking character (from C to F ), the B part rises from G to C before falling to A. The position of the parts dominated by seconds or thirds is reversed in A and B. While A first brings the leaps of thirds and then the seconds, this is reversed in part B (bars 5 and 6, as well as 7 and 8). The B part can again be divided into two parts, with the second part (bars 7 and 8) representing the sequencing of the two previous bars by one pitch higher.

reception

The very melodious song is part of the standard repertoire of all major children's choirs, such as the Vienna Boys' Choir , the Tölzer Boys' Choir , the NDR Boys' Choir and the Berlin Radio Children's Choir . Classic arrangements are often used as a basis.

The first line of the song is used in the film Die Drei von der Gasstelle (1930) in the context of the song from the cuckoo (“Dear, good Mr. bailiff”) by Werner Richard Heymann (music) and Robert Gilbert (text) with regard to the meaning humorously varied from cuckoo in the sense of pledge seal . In the film, the song was sung by Willy Fritsch , Oskar Karlweis and Heinz Rühmann together.

In his speech, when receiving the Hoffmann von Fallersleben Prize for time-critical literature , Peter Rühmkorf counted cuckoo, cuckoo, call it from the forest to Hoffmanns (in the sense of a dictum by Gottfried Benn ) "six to eight completed poems" [...], who at the end of a life full of renunciation finally see themselves as harvest and presented to posterity as, so to speak, 'poems that can be left behind' ”.

literature

  • August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Karl Hermann Prahl: Our folk songs. 4th edition. Engelmann, Leipzig 1900, p. 168 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

Commons : Cuckoo, cuckoo, call it from the forest  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Renate Sarr: Stieglitz, Stieglitz, 's Zeiserl is Krank (2007). In: Popular and Traditional Songs. Historical-critical song lexicon of the German Folk Song Archive
  2. ↑ In Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1837) the opening line reads: "Cuckoo, cuckoo calls from the forest" ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ a b The three from the gas station: Soundtrack in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  4. ↑ Rühmkorf award speech (PDF file; 54 kB)