Paschen (music)

Under Paschen (to slippers , beating, clapping ') refers to common rhythmic clapping of boys and men in the Austro - Bavarian space.

Traditionally, the middle part of a sung - often mocking - Gstanzl , as part of a folk dance ( Landler , Steirer and others), or generally in the singing of suitable folk songs , often alternating with yodelling (textless breast / falset song ) and accompanied by Juchitzers (melodious screams). A typical structure would be, for example, singing - Paschen once - Singen - Paschen twice - Singen - Yodelling - Paschen three times.

There is a Vorpascher who gives the commands.

The rhythmic structure of Paschen can be very complicated and requires years of practice and good teamwork in addition to talent. The paschers can have up to six (or even more) different functions within the framework of the rhythm, so that a good pascher always needs several people: The front pascher claps the basic rhythm, the Zuahipascher claps the syncopation in between, third and possibly even sixth clap in three-beat - mostly syncopating - three times or a total of all six eighth notes, or eighth notes in two- bar eight sixteenths. These and other functions can then also be occupied more than once.

A combination of flat hand clapping and palm hand clapping is often used deliberately to change the sound. These are also changed at the request of the pascher (for example: "hollow!").

This Paschen is most widespread in the Salzkammergut , although there are serious differences in rhythm, structure and key music between the Styrian, Upper Austrian and Salzburg parts of the Salzkammergut. The emergence around the middle of the 19th century of this highly stylized clapping as an independent art form should be seen in connection with the custom life of rural boys' communities, until today it is traditionally only played by men. A first transcription comes from the folk song researcher Josef Pommer (Fuschl, 1891).

Web links

Gerlinde Haid : Paschen. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 .
Paschen in folk dance (on volksmusik.cc)

Audio samples:

myspace.com/ausseergeigenmusi - Music demo clip (Landler with Pasch) of Ausseer Geigenmusi (on myspace.com)
Video: Ausseer Steirischer - Paschen & Gstanzl sing (on dancilla.com)
Videos: Innviertler Landler - with eight-line Gstanzln (on dancilla.com)
Paschen in the Salzkammergut (on mein-oesterreich.info).

Individual evidence

↑ Volker Derschmidt, Walter Deutsch (Ed.): Der Landler. Volume 8 of Österreichischen Volksliedwerkes (performance): Corpus musicae popularis Austriacae, complete edition of folk music in Austria. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 1998, ISBN 978-320598856-4 , p. 500 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
↑ 'In addition', compare the zuabipassen in folk music, singing in parallel in the third instead of a second part.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Paschen. In: IKM, Department of Musicology: Austrian Music Lexicon. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2002 ff, ISBN 978-3-7001-3077-2 (online at musiklexikon.ac.at).

[1] Volker Derschmidt, Walter Deutsch (Ed.): Der Landler. Volume 8 of Österreichischen Volksliedwerkes (performance): Corpus musicae popularis Austriacae, complete edition of folk music in Austria. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 1998, ISBN 978-320598856-4 , p. 500 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

[2] 'In addition', compare the zuabipassen in folk music, singing in parallel in the third instead of a second part.

[musiklexikon-3] Paschen. In: IKM, Department of Musicology: Austrian Music Lexicon. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2002 ff, ISBN 978-3-7001-3077-2 (online at musiklexikon.ac.at).