Musical fraternity

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Musical student associations are colored as well as non-colored student associations that cultivate the musical principle as the basis of the life of the union. This includes in particular classical and modern instrumental music, choral singing and theater.

Naming and association membership

Around half of the musical associations today are called singers (abbreviated as S!). These are always color-bearing and mostly at least facultative musical student associations. What all singers have in common is that they are all male associations . The majority of the singing societies in Germany are organized in the German Singing Society (DS). The majority of Austrian singers belong to the Weimar Interest Group (WIG). It was created in 1992, when due to fundamental differences of opinion in questions of membership requirements, the drum and choir operations, as well as the worldview, almost all the singers in Austria decided to quit the German singers and founded the WIG together with some German singers.

In contrast to the singing groups, the naming of the non-colored music connections is inconsistent. The name Academic-Musical Association is widespread . Other names are Student Music Association , Musical Group or Academic Choral Society . The non-color-bearing associations are grouped together in the Sondershäuser Association of Academic-Musical Associations . The vast majority of them accept women as equal members. Before the Second World War , however, there were also groups in the special houses association called "singers". In contrast to today's singers' bodies, however, they too were not striking and only led the colors in the tip or in the form of colored ribbons on the lapel .

Position on color and scale

Usually, in the case of the artistic student associations, the wearing of colors and the position in relation to the scale are associated. Only a few of the color-bearing connections completely reject the hitting of the scale, most leave it to their members whether they want to hit the scale. None of the non-color-bearing connections is committed to the scale length. Until the 1930s, however, the connections of the Sondershäuser Association were also a factor in satisfactoring .

Women in music associations

The musical groups and ensembles of the musical associations, regardless of whether they are colored or not, are generally open to women without restriction, provided it is not a male choir. Membership in the association itself is only possible in 17 of the 24 associations of the Sondershäuser Association . The academic-musical women's association Caecilia Hamburg (founded in 2006, provisional member of the Sondershäuser Association since Whitsun 2007) is the only musical association that exclusively accepts women. However, it works closely with AMV Nordmark Hamburg (also SV), which in turn is only open to men. In the singers' groups (for example in the DS), women only have the opportunity to participate in the musical ensembles. Membership in the association is not possible.

historical development

In terms of the history of ideas , the artistic student associations ultimately go back to the academic choirs of the 19th century .

Examples

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernhard Grün, Christoph Vogel: The Fuxenstunde . Manual of Corporation Studentism. Bad Buchau 2014, pp. 198–199, ISBN 978-3-925171-92-5 .
  2. ↑ Harald Lönnecker : "... to the limit of self-destruction" - the scale of the academic singers between cultural trademarks, social criteria and national symbols (1918–1926) . Einst und Jetzt 50 (2005), pp. 281-340