Tagelied

The day's song, named in the Romance languages ​​after the "whites" of dawn ( Occitan Alba, Old French Aube ), is a courtly song genre of medieval poetry, which is primarily defined content and the situation of the secret get-togethers and of parting of two lovers at dawn after a night spent together Love theme.

Together with the Pastourelle, which portrays the encounter of a knight with a shepherdess of the lower classes, the day's song is a special case in the court poetry, it is thus no sings of the self-denying, looking for deferment and ethical refinement High Minne, but instead permits the physical union and even in the center is where the daily song in contrast to Pastourelle not treated his subject in rough and ironically, it also brings the happiness of the union and the pain of the impending separation expressed.

Origin and motives

The daily song was trained by the Occitan troubadours and northern French Trouvères as generic and taken from the Middle High German minstrels and further developed, in each case, elements of older folk song material and connecting factors could come from moderate Latin poetry to bear. The daily song combines narrative with monological and scenic elements, envisioned the dawn by characteristic motifs such as the morning light, the beginning of the singing of birds and the warning call of the watchman and connects the expression of love happiness and pain of separation with the complaint about the envious and the jealous husband, the as representatives of a society hostile to enforce the separation of the lovers. Although folk elements such as chorus and Watchmen are received and there is no binding to a fixed formal design principle, the day's song is performed usually by formally demanding rhyme and verse technique.

In the Middle High German poetry is presumably the oldest recorded Tagelied Slâfest you, Dietmar von Aist friedel cers attributed. Other important representatives were, inter alia, Henry of Morungen, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Walther von der Vogelweide and later Oswald von Wolkenstein.

The parting of Romeo Juliet in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet as well as the second act of Richard Wagner's opera Tristan and Isolde are dramatized forms of Days song.

In the literature of romance that yes grappled much with the Middle Ages, also find daily songs, such as morning dew by Adelbert von Chamisso.