Deutsche Singmesse

The Betsingmesse was a German -language special form in the development of the Eucharistic celebration.

Singmesse

The origin of the German Singmesse lies in the pursuit of a German -language celebration of the Mass during the Enlightenment, especially in southern Germany and Austria in the sphere of influence of Josephinism. Together with the Augustinian choir master and musician Norbert Hauner, the pen Dean on Herrenchiemsee, published Franz Seraph von Kohlenbrenner 1777 in Landshut his prayer and hymnal The Sacred song for worship in the Roman Catholic Church. First part, which spread the liturgy in German language. The service is first conceived here as Singmesse of the faithful. The still popular Christmas song Tauet, Sky, the righteous appears here for example as singing the offertory during the Sundays of Advent.

1795 revised Michael Haydn Haunerschen melody versions and transformed it into his German full up office. This series of songs about the parts of the show ( which were still quietly spoken by the priest in Latin ) is usually the first line of the opening song Here lies before your Majesty titled or referred to simply as Haydn fair. The text is characterized by the spirit of the Enlightenment and become as Singmesse to the Catholic public domain. This second setting is the most well-known and continues to be found in several parts of the regional Catholic hymnal praise of God.

History Liturgy solved the Sing Measure from the elaborate orchestral masses, the Emperor Joseph II had banned for his domain.

The most famous Singmesse from the 19th century, the German exhibition by Franz Schubert in 1826, is based on the model of Haydn. Also it is not a setting of the traditional measuring the Ordinary, but offers German songs that lean in free association in their feeling to the statements of the Ordinary and address the feelings of revelers in a romantic way.

Betsingmesse

Based on the suggestions Romano Guardini and the Benedictine Abbey Khajuraho under Abbot Ildefonso Herwegen celebrated the Klosterneuburger Augustinian Canons Pius Parsch 1922 so-called " community fairs " in the Church of St. Gertrud ( Klosterneuburg ), in which parts of the mass of the people in German language were sung. He wanted to obtain active participation of the celebrants and a return to primitive Christianity. These celebrations are regarded as the birth of the liturgical movement in Austria and Germany. A breakthrough came when a Betsingmesse was celebrated at Vienna's Catholic 1933.

In the first part of the Proper Betsingmesse were sung in the form of German songs. Also for the Ordinary German forms of singing has been increasingly developed or songs determined. At the same time these texts were, however, still spoken in Latin by the priest. The duplication of priestly and gemeindlichem action has not yet been overcome.

Aftermath

With the liturgical reform of 2nd Vatican Council and the introduction of vernacular liturgy in the celebration of Mass, the congregation Betsingmesse became obsolete.

The tradition to perform individual pieces of the liturgy in the form of German songs, which are not necessarily a German version of this part of the liturgy, such as a song or song for Gloria to Sanctus, however, has survived to this day in many communities, even if they is seen by liturgists critical and is hardly covered by the official documents.

Also, the term Betsingmesse found still often in parish news, although it is no longer the form itself.