Our dear women's dream (Reger)

Our dear women's dream is a motet for four- to six-part mixed choir by Max Reger .

It is a strophic built Choralmotette , wherein the first and the second verse on the same based harmonic-melodic principle. The third stanza represents the musical climax, which can be recognized by the six-part choral setting . There is a late romantic harmony (chromatics, dominant seventh non chords etc.) and a polyphonic movement . The key is F major.

The work was written in 1914 and was published in 1916 as No. 4 of Eight Sacred Songs op.138.

The text of the work is borrowed from the first three stanzas of the Marienlied, Our Dear Women Dream , which was first printed in Nikolaus Beuttner's Catholisches Gesangbuch (Graz 1602). When it was included in the Zupfgeigenhansl, the song became popular with the youth movement because of its heavy mood . Max Reger did not take up the original melody, but composed his setting from scratch.

Web links

8 Sacred Chants, Op. 138 (Reger, Max) : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
Notes in the public domain from And our dear women, Op. 138, no. 4 (Max Reger) in the Choral Public Domain Library - ChoralWiki (English)
Britta Taddiken: Our dear women's dream , motet sermon , December 5, 2014
Mechthild Alber: Our dear women's dream , SWR2 song for Sunday, December 13, 2015

Individual evidence

↑ Susanne Popp: Reger, Max. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 13 (Paladilhe - Ribera). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2005, ISBN 3-7618-1133-0 , Sp. 1415 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
↑ Nicolaus Beuttner: Catholisches Gesang-Buch. Graz 1602, pp. 180-182, no. 30 ( digitized version of the 1718 edition ).
↑ Ludwig Erk , Franz Magnus Böhme (Ed.): Deutscher Liederhort . 3rd volume. Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1894 (reprint: Olms, Hildesheim 1963), p. 749 f. ( Digitized version ).
↑ And our dear women in the song project of Carus-Verlag and SWR2
↑ Hans Breuer (ed.): Der Zupfgeigenhansl. 90th edition. Hofmeister, Leipzig 1920, p. 91 ( digitized version ).
^ Ingeborg Weber-Kellermann : The book of Christmas carols. Schott, Mainz 1982, ISBN 3-7957-2061-3 , pp. 208 f.

[1] Susanne Popp: Reger, Max. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 13 (Paladilhe - Ribera). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2005, ISBN 3-7618-1133-0 , Sp. 1415 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)

[2] Nicolaus Beuttner: Catholisches Gesang-Buch. Graz 1602, pp. 180-182, no. 30 ( digitized version of the 1718 edition ).

[3] Ludwig Erk , Franz Magnus Böhme (Ed.): Deutscher Liederhort . 3rd volume. Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1894 (reprint: Olms, Hildesheim 1963), p. 749 f. ( Digitized version ).

[4] And our dear women in the song project of Carus-Verlag and SWR2

[5] Hans Breuer (ed.): Der Zupfgeigenhansl. 90th edition. Hofmeister, Leipzig 1920, p. 91 ( digitized version ).

[6] Ingeborg Weber-Kellermann : The book of Christmas carols. Schott, Mainz 1982, ISBN 3-7957-2061-3 , pp. 208 f.