Ode

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Ode ( female , about Latin ode from ancient Greek ᾠδή Ode , literally "[the] song" or "[the] song") is the name of a song or a lyric, first in Greek.

Ancient odes

Alleged original setting of an ode by Pindar, in Athanasius Kircher, Musurgia universalis , 1650

In ancient Greece, a chant that was played to an accompanying musical instrument was called an ode, also a monody or a choral song . Later the texts were sometimes also recited instead of sung. The highlights are the odes of Pindar , which he also set to music himself.

The most important author of Latin odes was Horace .

Biblical odes

Around 130 AD, 142 chants were written in the Syrian language, which appear as Oden Solomon in some biblical manuscripts.

A collection of 14 odes (chants) from various books of the Old and New Testaments has been included as appendices in Greek psalters since the 6th century .

Odes in the liturgy

First Ode of the Orthodox Canon, Greek Menaeon, Venice, 1552

Nine odes as hymn chants form the basis for the canon in the liturgy of the Orthodox churches .

Literary odes in modern times

Since the 16th century in European literature of Humanism and Baroque especially noble poetic forms are called Ode called, always referred to ancient odes.

Famous examples are:

Oden von Klopstock , 1750, Oden und Elegien , 1771, Oden , 1771 ( digitized and full text in the German text archive ), Oden und Lieder beiym Clavier zu Singen , 1776, Oden zur French Revolution , 1790–99

Odes in the composition

There were also settings of odes, e.g. B .:

literature

Web links

Wiktionary: Ode  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ode . Duden , Bibliographical Institute, 2016
  2. ↑ Hubert Zanoskar (ed.): Guitar playing of old masters. Original music from the 16th and 17th centuries. Volume 1. B. Schott's Sons, Mainz 1955 (= Edition Schott. Volume 4620), p. 8.