Vom Singen der Psalmen: Ein Werkstattbericht
This report of a workshop summing up remarks and experiences from the singing of psalms has been written by two members of the Evangelische Michaelsbruderschaft by which the liturgical life of German-speaking Protestant Churches had strongly been influenced in former decades. The starting-point as w...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | German |
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
1990
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Jahrbuch für Liturgik und Hymnologie
Year: 1990, Volume: 33, Pages: 1-94 |
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| Summary: | This report of a workshop summing up remarks and experiences from the singing of psalms has been written by two members of the Evangelische Michaelsbruderschaft by which the liturgical life of German-speaking Protestant Churches had strongly been influenced in former decades. The starting-point as well as the aim of their work is the Prayer Book of this group granting a wide area for joint chant of biblical word for one voice by the classical order of Daily Prayer (the hours) with psalmody, antiphonae, hymns and canticles. In contrast to the old-fashioned versions of the Lutheran and United Churches which use to sing liturgy exclusively in unchangeable and historical fixed tunes a new range of plain chant of an amazingly wide variability has been discovered faciliated by the oktoechos system. The elementary proceedings of listening and repeating by speaking and singing have been described, and the breath-inspired recitation of the words has been realized being a musical gesture. Regarding the interior of this wide area for free play certain rules regulate all operations with words and music conditioned by the rhythm of German language and by the model of psalmodic recitation as well. These proceedings are specified in two corresponding paragraphs (pp 19; 39): at first the unchangeable German text of the psalms is brought to congruence with the flexible practicabilities of the music. Secondly, the wording of the usual liturgical text (Luther version) endures a certain alteration on account of the presuppositions given by the music model (structure). Both series of testes running against one another aim a very far-reaching consonance between the accent of the text and those of the music models. The authors are a great lot indebted to the Roman-Catholic German-speaking Choral school for the knowledge and experiences of the so-called semiology of plain chant conveyed to them. Especially in the final part of the extensive workshop report which is dedicated to antiphony this influence is perceptible. An impressive biblical verse which can be remembered easily focusses the gospel of a sunday and of the following week de tempore (the so-called Wochenspruch) is set to a very elementary musical tune according to its conditions of wording rhythm by the help of the inner structural rules of the music keys. |
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| ISSN: | 2197-3466 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Jahrbuch für Liturgik und Hymnologie
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