Wienhäuser songbook

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The Wienhausen songbook is a late medieval paper manuscript that was compiled shortly after 1460 in the Cistercian convent Wienhausen from templates from the 14th and 15th centuries. More recent dates confirm the year 1470.

Contents of the manuscript

The manuscript consists of 40 sheets in portrait format with the dimensions 10 × 14 cm. Today it is bound in flexible pigskin. According to Sievers, five female writers were probably involved in the drafting.

The paper manuscript contains 59 songs, 55 of which are religious and 4 secular, plus a rhyming prose. In Latin 17 songs are written in lateinisch- Low German change language 6 songs and 36 songs only in Low German.

The 15 melodies of the manuscript are unanimously notated on four lines in the horseshoe nail notes of the 15th century and show an unmistakable Dutch influence. They are an important source for researching the Low German folk song . The hymns still in use today include In dulci jubilo (No. 14), We all want to be happy (No. 7). The folk song The Bird Wedding (No. 59) is also known.

Heinrich Sievers claims to have rediscovered this manuscript in the Wienhausen monastery archive in 1932. It is kept there and bears the seal Hs. 9.

literature

  • Paul Alpers : The Wienhäuser songbook. In: Low German Yearbook . Vol. 69/70, Neumünster 1943–1947, pp. 1–41 (critical edition).
  • Heinrich Sievers: The Wienhäuser songbook. Facsimile and transmission. 2 vol. Möseler, Wolfenbüttel 1954.
  • Heinrich Sievers:  Wienhäuser songbook. In: Friedrich Blume (Hrsg.): The music in past and present (MGG). First edition, Volume 14 (Vollerthun - Zyganow). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1968, DNB 550439609 , Sp. 627
  • Vanessa Noll: The Wienhausen Monastery and the Wienhausen Songbook - Under the observation of influences of mysticism in the Wienhausen songbook. GRIN Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-640-36454-1 .
  • Peter Kaufhold: The Wienhausen song book (= Kloster Wienhausen. Vol. 6). Wienhausen Monastery, Wienhausen 2002, ISBN 3-9801316-8-8 .

Compositions

  • Alfred Koerppen : Invocations based on the songs of the Wienhäuser songbook for Schola, according to Choir, fl. If. Vl. Vc. Kb. U. Organ. Möseler, Wolfenbüttel 1968.

Sound recordings

  • Elisabeth Schlemilch sings songs from the Wienhausen songbook . Camerata CM 17997 N.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Heinrich Sievers:  Wienhäuser songbook. In: Friedrich Blume (Hrsg.): The music in past and present (MGG). First edition, Volume 14 (Vollerthun - Zyganow). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1968, DNB 550439609 , Sp. 627