The church song did not give it always. It stepped only as consequence of large theological circulations into the liturgical foreground. Of Professor Dr. h.c. Josef Friedrich double farmer.

(kreuz.net/Sisa) the manifestation of the church song is not uniform. It is complex and holds contradictory.

The church song is mirror of the religious opinions in the change of the time.

The holy Augustinus says: „We are the times, how we are, then are the times. “We are called to find the way by the Dickicht of time conditions at least one piece far.

We must ask ourselves, where we must change that the times change.

Before I turn to the topic, I would like to get straight that for me the term music culture not only the so-called high art, but also the simple - which art of the everyday life - covers.

The church song is historically seen the people-moderate portion of the development of the church music - a relatively recent branch. There were centuries, in which a church song in the today's sense did not exist.

The church song developed relatively late and in vorreformatorischen times predominantly in the German linguistic area. It played however a very unimportant role.

The Roman countries do not have to exhibit comparable development of the church song.

Church music was thing of the clerics and that particularly for it trained Kantoreien. When the Mehrstimmigkeit was invented, she developed only as high art. The Organa of the school by Notre Dame in Paris by the masters Leoninus and Perotinus Magnus 13. Century were art music.

Naturally there was also simpler, but it tended to the art music.

The höfische Minnegesang was thing of individual singers.

The Minnegesang and its civil branch, the master singing, used occasionally also religious texts, but that was thing formed of conditions.

Suggestions for it came of the art music and were simplified.

Only the reformation with its stress of the general Priestertums put the main accent on the municipality, and accordingly the people singing - the church song - stepped into the foreground.

Being based on the vorreformatorischen church song and on the folk song, new church songs in abundance were created.

The Gegenreformation had, in order to pull directly, stress the church song more strongly, but it remained of secondary importance.

In addition, Martin Luther was a Bewunderer of the ornate Figuralmusik. He loved Josquin and Senfl and let her exist. Thus municipality singing with choir singing changed in the lutherischen service.

Developed numerous ornate Kirchenlied Motetten, which had the church song in place of the Gregorianik to the thematic source. Ornate choir music and municipality singing were fed from a source.

The songs of the reformation and Gegenreformation developed from a religious departure.

In addition, in the consequence other spirit-historical powers stepped on the plan.


The author (*1918) was a composition professor as well as Prorector of the Salzburger of conservatoire `Mozarteum'. he died on 13 January 1989. This contribution comes of the unpublished deduction.

Next time: The deplorable product of a church talent escape

Artois †: Poland and Germany

At least German and Polish culture is on the closest with and into one another verwoben. Nearly all Polish cities, also Warsaw and Krakau are German establishments, lived after German right and got their culture from francs and Saxonia, Poland and German are very closely also ethnic used peoples.
Straight one in the music remained Poland however always quite independently, delivered is e.g. the fascination, which exercised Polish music on Telemann, as he as a Kapellmeister in Pleß (OS) worked. He transferred Polish elements to his compositions, where they are to be recognized still for many decades.

Uwe Schmidt: @Schüttel

I notice, you know each other out! Me Polish church songs actually come like German composition championship with Russian icing over it pre are already correct, them are very many more mystischer as the Germans… probable are it also what attracts me in such a way there.

Markus Antonius †: @Freinsberg

We will probably never experience that.

Free LG0 suppl.: Double farmer deduction?

Me would interest, as the line comes of KreuzNet to the deduction of Professor Doppelbauer.

Vibrate: But, but, Mr. Uwe Schmidt

Polarize German colony? From which gentleman rider federation are you?
Of Poland songs have, differently than most German and English, mystische Faszinationen. They are self-property of a uniform Christian people.

Sulpicius: One should not forget:

this concerns a text from the deduction of the author, who did not publish it. It will be probably more a kind sketch collection to the topic. We look from there on the good thoughts and information, which perhaps still come…