„Des Knaben Wunderhorn” und seine Stellung zu Volks- und Kirchenlied
Achim von Arnim's and Clemens Brentano's collection of songs 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn' (1805/ 1808) deserves special attention because it predates other collections in the same field and because of the editors' expertise in the matter of Folk Songs and their familiarity with t...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | German |
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
1984
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Jahrbuch für Liturgik und Hymnologie
Year: 1984, Volume: 28, Pages: 29-38 |
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| Summary: | Achim von Arnim's and Clemens Brentano's collection of songs 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn' (1805/ 1808) deserves special attention because it predates other collections in the same field and because of the editors' expertise in the matter of Folk Songs and their familiarity with the whole field of folk literature. So far there has been more prejudice and more drawing of the false conclusions in connection with it than there have been worthwile insights. In fact it contains less material from oral tradition than transcriptions from older publications. These have been modernized and polished in a romantic sense. The many hymns in the 'Wunderhorn' should be seen against this background. On the one hand they represent a new upsurge of romantic piety, on the other hand however they are interest only to the literary historian. Noteworthy examples do stand out, such as the five Luther texts. On the positive side the editors discovered the devotional poetry of Friedrich von Spee (1591–1635). They tended to omit or to amend poor craftmanship and partisan confessional, particularly polemic statements. The richest source was a pietistic hymnbook of 1712; they aligned themselves to a considerable degree with its introduction in matters of the policy of adaptation and of theological approach. These were poems quite out of the ordinary run in their feeling and their use of metaphor. Its special kind of piety is documented and identifiable in the final poems of the collection: these were individually worked over by Arnim and Brentano and marked with the imagery central to their thought of the 'horn' of the Last Judgement and of the 'Book of God in Nature'. |
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| ISSN: | 2197-3466 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Jahrbuch für Liturgik und Hymnologie
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