House Music Day

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The day of house music is dedicated to making music yourself and together in a private domestic setting. It takes place nationwide every year on November 22nd.

origin

November 22nd is originally the day of commemoration and name of Saint Cecilia of Rome (* around 200 AD in Rome; † around 230 there), the patroness of church music.

House Music Day has been held in Germany since 1932. He was repeatedly presented by Dagmar Sikorski, President of the German Music Publishers Association. V. (DMV) proclaimed. It is mainly dedicated to making music together in a family and neighborhood environment and aims to motivate people to make music themselves. Numerous musicians and music schools from all over Germany celebrate House Music Day with small concerts and performances in a private setting on November 22nd.

In 1954 the Catholic Church also proclaimed Cecilia Day to be the day of (house) music. In many Catholic countries, November 22nd is therefore celebrated as International Musicians' Day. In Spain, South America (e.g. Argentina, Chile, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela) and many other countries concerts in honor of the musicians take place on this day.

House music today

Already in the Middle Ages, when families were singing together, a wide variety of folk songs were created, which were initially only passed on orally. The first notated examples of house music developed from this later. In the 18th and 19th centuries, house music was firmly anchored in people's everyday life. Especially among the upper middle class, the associated piano and singing lessons were among the basic educational standards for daughters from a good family. In the course of the invention and spread of jukeboxes and sound carriers, the social status of house music has decreased significantly. Nowadays this practice has almost been forgotten in everyday life and is mostly limited to singing birthday and Christmas carols together. However, new formats such as living room concerts and platforms such as SofaConcerts, which mediate small concerts in private rooms to musicians, aim to revive the practice of house music today in a modern form.

In 2014, the network initiative “Musikland Niedersachsen” proclaimed November 22nd to be the day of Lower Saxony house music as part of its annual campaign “Heimvorteil”. So all Lower Saxony are called to open their living rooms to make music together and to celebrate the day of house music with homemade music.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. http://www.kuriose-feiertage.de/22/11/tag-der-hausmusik/ (accessed on July 7, 2014)
  2. ↑ cf. http://www.dmv-online.com/de/news-termine/news/archiv/single/75-tag-der-hausmusik-mit-tausenden-von-konzerten/ (accessed on July 7, 2014)
    and http : //www.dmv-online.com/de/news-termine/news/archiv/single/zum-tag-der-hausmusik-am-22-november-zeitgemaesser-unterricht-notwendig-und-grundstein-mit-m / (accessed on July 7, 2014)
  3. ↑ cf. Lühmann, Hannah. House music. Renaissance of a bourgeois musical culture? In: The orchestra. Magazine for Musicians and Management , 59 (2011), No. 11. pp. 10–12.
  4. ↑ cf. ibid.
  5. ↑ cf. http://www.musikland-niedersachsen.de/heimvorteil/ (accessed on July 7, 2014)

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