Английская Википедия:Grossvatertanz
The Grossvatertanz (Grandfather Dance) is a German dance tune from the 17th century. It is generally considered a traditional folk tune.
It is a tripartite tune:
- 8 bars in [[Triple metre|Шаблон:Music]] time, Andante
- 4 bars of a different theme in Шаблон:Music time, Allegro (repeated)
- 4 bars of a further theme, in Шаблон:Music time, Allegro (repeated).
<score sound="1">{ \time 3/8 \key g \major \tempo "Andante" \tempo 4 = 80 \partial 8 \relative d' { d8 g8. g16 g8 g a b | b a a a4 a8 | b8. c16 d8 d c b | b a a a4 \repeat volta 2 { \time 2/4 \tempo "Allegro" \tempo 4 = 126 s8 d'8 b g a fis g16 a g fis g8 d' b g a fis g4 r8 } \repeat volta 2 { d8 g a b c d16 e d cis d8 c b g a fis g4 r8 } } \addlyrics { Und als der Groß- va- ter die Groß- mut- ter nahm, da war der Groß- va- - ter ein Bräu- ti- gam } }</score>
The first part was sung to the words: <poem>Шаблон:Lang</poem>
New lyrics to the first part of the tune were written by Klamer Eberhard Karl Schmidt in 1794[1] and August Friedrich Ernst Langbein in 1812,[2] both "lengthy and dull pieces of ornate poetry" (Franz Magnus Böhme, 1886).[3] Шаблон:Ill (1766–1853) in 1823 composed a new tune to Langbein's lyrics,[4] for which he has erroneously been claimed to be the real author.[5]
For many years, it was regularly played and danced at the end of wedding celebrations, and became known as the Шаблон:Lang ("finale", Шаблон:Literal translation turn-out).[6] It became so associated with marriage that when Louis Spohr wrote a Festival March for the wedding of Princess Marie of Hesse to the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen in 1825, he was required to quote the Шаблон:Lang in it.
Robert Schumann quoted the Grossvatertanz in a number of works, among them:
- the final section of Papillons, Op. 2 (1831)
- the final section ("Шаблон:Lang") of Carnaval, Op. 9 (1834–35), where he labels the theme Шаблон:Lang (Theme from the 17th century).
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky also quotes the tune in act 1 of his ballet The Nutcracker (1892). It appears at the end of the Christmas party. Tchaikovsky was a great admirer of Schumann's music, but it is not clear whether this was meant as some sort of tribute to Schumann or simply as an appropriate tune to use in music depicting the winding up of a happy family event.[7]
More recently, the German composer Jörg Widmann has used the Grossvatertanz in his Third String Quartet, "Jagdquartett" (2003), to evoke a hunt.[8][9]
References
Further reading
- Eric Blom ed., Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5th ed. 1954Шаблон:Full citation needed
- Max Friedlaender (1918): Das Großvaterlied und der Großvatertanz. In: Festschrift Hermann Kretzschmar zum siebzigsten Geburtstage. Peters, Leipzig, pp. 29–36 (Шаблон:Internet Archive).
- Шаблон:Cite wikisource
- ↑ Wilhelm Werner Johann Schmidt, Friedrich Lautsch (eds., 1826): Klamer Eberhard Karl Schmidt’s Leben und auserlesene Werke. Vol. I. Cotta, Stuttgart and Tübingen, p. 389 (online).
- ↑ August Friedrich Ernst Langbein (ed., 1820): Deutscher Liederkranz. Berlin, p. 152 f. (Шаблон:Google books).
- ↑ Franz Magnus Böhme (1886): Geschichte des Tanzes in Deutschland. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig. Vol. I: Darstellender Teil. p. 184 f. (Шаблон:Internet Archive); Vol. II: Musikbeilagen. p. 214 f. (Шаблон:Internet Archive); quotation: "lange und langweilige Kunstdichtungen".
- ↑ August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Karl Hermann Prahl (1900): Unsere volkstümlichen Lieder. 4. edition. Engelmann, Leipzig, p. 12 (Шаблон:Internet Archive).
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