Chant
A Rundgesang (formerly also Rundlied ) is a certain form of song and presentation in which the individual stanzas are sung in turn by the members of a table party . Fixed verses can be sung one after the other or the individual singer improvises individual stanzas, each interrupted by a refrain from the entire dinner party. Circular chants at drinking societies are already documented in ancient Greece, where they, as Skolion, animated the individual singers in turn to poetry and drink during a symposium . In the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the round songs developed into the poetic form of the rondeau and the musical form of the rondo .
For the most part, the round-the-clock is combined with drinking together from a large tankard or drinking horn ( professional drinking ). In the 18th century, the round song with a circling drinking tankard was associated with the praise of the so-called "Charmante", that is, the individual singer had to praise his beloved in the song. This origin is still preserved in the round song live, love, drink and rave . Vollmann explains the Rundgesang in his dictionary 1846 as " a song in sequence, in which everyone sings a song and empties their glass (...) a cantus for drinking, which the choir sings ". In the so-called midnight scream, which stems from a mining tradition of singing, the round song is also mentioned: “ Let us swing the Methorn, let the round song sound up to the sky, so that even in grandchildren's and great-grandchildren's days the charcoal burners once said outside in the forest: Weather up, let them down beautiful! "
Well-known round songs are, for example, the songs Es geht ein Rundgesang around our table and Wohlauf zum Happy Rundgesang ( Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg , 1803). In Metzler's songbook from 1823 the following are listed as round songs:
- The loyalty that bound us brothers
- Well run and ringing the glasses
- Brother, I bring this full glass to your honor!
- We all love singing and barley juice
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- German songbook initially for use by universities , Stuttgart (JB Metzler'sche Buchhandlung) 1823
- J. Vollmann (d. I. Johannes Gräßli ): Burschicoses Dictionary , Ragaz 1846
- Peter Hauser: Rundgesang and barley juice . In: Studentica Helvetica 15th cent. 1999, No. 30, pp. 94-98
Individual evidence
- ↑ J. Vollmann p. 402
- ↑ Harald Lönnecker : "According to ancient custom and boyfriends ..." - The midnight scream . Frankfurt 2000
- ↑ Teutsches Liederbuch 1823, p. 372ff