| Series |
Anabaptist and Mennonite studies
Anabaptist and Mennonite studies. ^A690382
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| Contents |
Preface -- Introduction -- A brief historical overiew of the Hutterites -- Hutterite songs and singing -- Court song melodies and Hutterite songs -- Hutterites and Minnesinger and Meistersinger songs -- Roman Catholic liturgical chants in Hutterite music -- Lutheran hymns in Hutterite melodies -- Hutterite melodies from reformed church hymns -- Songs by Anabaptists, peripheral Anabaptists, recanters, and other religious minorities -- Folk song melodies and Hutterite songs -- Sacred folk songs and songs in Die Lieder der Hutterischen Brüder. |
| Abstract |
This innovative study explores the remarkable four-hundred-year-old tradition of Hutterite songs. The author traces the origins of Hutterites' sacred songs from the time the earliest Anabaptists began writing them. These songs have been aurally/orally transmitted and sung in unison since that time. The primary song book of the Hutterites, Die Lieder der Hutterischen Brüder, contains words to songs, primarily by Hutterites, which were written to a variety of melodies. The melodies range from medieval liturgical chant, court songs, sacred and secular folk songs, to the hymns emanating from the various churches after the Reformation. Many of these melodies are being sung today only by the Hutterites. This study, begun in the 1960s, captures a tradition which is now being threatened by the fact that many Hutterites are beginning to sing four part music of the classical tradition and to play musical instruments, as well as furthering their education outside of the colonies. |
| Bibliography note | Bibliography: pages 313-330. |
| Language | Song lyrics in German and English. |
| ISBN | 189471024X : |
