Tuba angel
Tuba angel , also known as a trombone angel , is a musical angel in Christian iconography who blows a bent horn or another straight brass instrument . Tube angels are a very old representation of angels.
Origin Bible
The instrument name tuba , from Latin tubus ("tube"), was the first wind instrument to describe the Roman tuba with a long straight tube. The Byzantine touba and the modern horn tuba with valves are derived from this . In the Vulgate , tuba generally stands for a loud wind instrument and is often incorrectly translated instead of the Hebrew shofar , a ram's horn used as a signal and ritual instrument, as it says in Psalm 47: 6: “Ascendit Deus in iubilo, et Dominus in voce tubae ". The Greek translation corresponding to the Latin tuba in the Septuagint for a straight trumpet is salpinx and in the Hebrew Bible is chazozra for a straight trumpet made of silver.
In the Luther translation of the New Testament , the voice of God is described as the sound of a trumpet (e.g. Revelation 1:10), whereby the name tuba here also stands for a wind instrument of high volume.
Originally, the Tubaengel is often presented with an army horn (made of metal, the Olifant like), from the 11th century with the Busine (Latin bucina ), a straight natural trumpet. While the tuba angel type was initially related to the heavenly hymn of praise ( Utrecht Psalter , 1st third of the 9th century), it later appears as the angel of judgment in depictions of the Apocalypse , such as the pericopes of Henry II from the beginning of the 11th century where the dead rise from the graves, frightened by the sound of the angels' trumpets.
The frequent number of four angels comes from a number of the number seven mentioned in Revelation reduced to the four cardinal points. Sometimes only two tuba angels are shown.
Church building decorations
Heralds and guards of angels equipped with tubas can often be found on capitals or as external figures on churches. The function of the instruments then goes beyond the function of heavenly praise or blowing in four directions according to the judgment and marks the watchdog and signaling function; so z. B. on the tower of the Freiburg Minster, where at a height of about 70 m they form the end of the four pillars that conceal the transition from the square of the tower base to the octagon of the tower spire; from the Münsterplatz they appear natural size, but are actually only 1.2 m high.
Geusen-Daniel
A special feature of the Trumpet Angels is the angel that serves as a weather vane on the roof ridge and towers of Protestant churches, especially in the diaspora of the former Duchy of Jülich on the Lower Rhine. The often hidden small churches were also used as places of worship by the Geusen who had fled the Netherlands and joined the Protestants who seemed to be hidden away. Their name then passed on to the Jülich Protestants. The Geusendaniel was probably a fad at the time when these churches were allowed to mount a bell ridge turret or church tower on or on their churches and prayer houses for the first time.
painting
Most trumpet angels can be found in connection with resurrection or last judgment scenarios, but sometimes they also appear in Renaissance or Baroque painting in allegorical contexts - e.g. B. in Giotto's fresco of Vanagloria .
music
In the musical work Dies irae the trumpets of judgment sound in the passage:
"Tuba mirum spargens sonum per sepulchra regionum, coget omnes ante thronum."
"The trumpet will sound loud, penetrate the graves of the earth, force everyone to the throne."
Facundus-Beatus : Angel of Trumpets of the Apocalypse
Hans Memling The Last Judgment
Banners instead of trumpets: raise your voice like a trumpet ( Isa 58 : 1 LUT ). Trombone Angel City Church Geising
See also
Web links
literature
- Michael Walter , Andreas Jaschinski: Angel music - devil music. In: The music in past and present , 2nd edition, 1995, Sp. 8–27.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.johannesoffenrael.ch/22kapitel/08_kapitel.php Posaunenengel - Biblical quotations
- ↑ The Geusendaniel at the church in Kirchherten ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
