Hymn

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Hymnar ( Pl. Hymnare ) or Hymnarium (Pl. Hymnarium ), also Liber Hymnarius or Liber hymnorum is the Middle Latin name for handwritten or printed collections of hymns for use in the Divine Office of the Roman Rite . It is one of the liturgical books .

middle Ages

Hymnars are partly preserved as special books, but mostly connected with a book of hours , where they appear up to the year 1000 as appendices to the Psalter for use in the prayers of the hour; however, there were also mixed forms. As early as the early Middle Ages, the introduction of hymns into the daily and festival officialdom became the rule. The Regula Benedicti (around 540) speaks of the fact that every Hore has a hymn.

Intended for the liturgical use of a single church, a diocese or a monastery, the hymnaries each provide a local or regional selection from the immense wealth of texts and melodies , in which mostly a common basic stock is mixed with less common or even singular pieces. The rare oldest manuscripts from the seventh to ninth centuries only contain texts without notation , e.g. B. the Irish hymn in the Antiphonary of Bangor as the oldest preserved hymnarium. The Hymnar von Kempten (written before 1026) offers legible melodies with letter notation for 25 of the hymns. On the other hand, the Hymn of Verona (11th century), which gives the melodies for 207 texts, is completely neumed .

The medieval hymnars were laid out in three sections, according to the text groups of the liturgical proprium : the temporal for the texts that change according to the requirements of the church year , the proprium de Sanctis , the texts that change with the holy feasts , and the Commune Sanctorum for certain feasts and days of remembrance Saints who do not have their own Proprium texts. For a song in Alternatimweise some Hymnarien had red and blue alternating verse initials .

Modern times

The hymnaries are partially integrated in the antiphonals of individual orders, which have been published since the 19th century, and the Antiphonale Romanum from 1912. In Liber Usualis Missae et Officii , which was published repeatedly from 1896 to 1964, and which contains the Mass chants of the Graduale Romanum and the texts of the Antiphonale , the hymns are printed with the individual hours. After the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council appeared in 1982 as volume 2 of the renewed Antiphonale ("Antiphonale Romanum secundum Liturgiam Horarum") a hymn with the title Liber Hymnarius ; it contains about 350 hymns, also invitations and 46 responsoria prolixa for the mother . More than 50 hymns in it were written in the 20th century.

Non-Latin liturgies

Among the non-Latin liturgies, the Greek and the Armenian rite in particular have books of hymns that can be regarded as counterparts to the Latin hymnars.

See also

expenditure

  • Liber hymnarius cum invitatoriis & aliquibus responsoriis. (= Antiphonale Romanum 2) Verlag La Froidfontaine [u. a.], Solesmes 1998, ISBN 978-2-85274-076-1 (XVI, 622 pages) ")

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Angelus Häussling: Hymn. II. Liturgical . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 5 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1996, Sp. 362 .
  2. ^ Franz Karl Praßl: Hymnar (ium) . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 5 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1996, Sp. 355 .
  3. ^ Franz Karl Praßl: Hymnar (ium) . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 5 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1996, Sp. 355 .