Morning song

The morning song is a time of day song and usually expresses a happy or expectant mood.

The folk songs include, for example, “The sun rises every morning”, “ In the morning dew to the mountains ”, “The morning sun rises from the bright birch trees”, “The morning sun shines golden” (Bohemian Forest) or “Good morning, my darling” as well as numerous canons .

Among the art songs to be mentioned are “ The golden sun ” (around 1700), “Good morning, you wonderful world of God” (Ahasverus Fritsch 1870), “Good morning, dear sunshine” (1937) and “Good morning, comrades, greetings we the sky tent "(1961),

as well as among the sacred songs “All morning is very fresh and new” ( Johannes Zwick 1545), “The bright sun shines now” ( Nikolaus Hermann 1560), “The day breaks and shows itself” ( Michael Weisse 1531), Stands up, dear little children (Erasmus Alberus 1553), “ God of heaven and earth ” ( Heinrich Albert 1642), “ Praise the gentlemen all who honor him ” ( Paul Gerhardt 1653), “ Morgenglanz der Ewigkeit ” (around 1680 Christian Knorr von Rosenroth ) and others. The best known from more recent times is “ Thank you for this good morning ”, the song by Martin Gotthard Schneider , which won the 1961 competition for “New Spiritual Songs” .

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Despite the similar name, there is no closer relationship to the medieval day song (Occitan alba , old French aube for morning light ). The daily songs in the sense of trobadord poetry and minstrels depict the farewell of two secret lovers at dawn.
For the musical “Morgenändchen” see Aubade .

Zoologists also refer to the song patterns of many songbirds as morning song or morning song , some of which begin at dawn - see bird clock . Some mammals, e.g. B. some lemurs sing in the morning to mark their territory.

See also : Laudes