Playing with the ‘Erbe’: The Legacy of the Songs of the 1848 Revolution in the GDR

After the twelve-year rupture caused by the Nazis, in the Soviet zone after 1945 attempts were made to reconnect with the traditions of workers’ songs and critical folk songs that were viewed as the cultural heritage of the communist movement. One of these ‘repertoires’ of song was that of the 1848 Revolution. In the 1950s GDR researchers such as the Germanist Bruno Kaiser, the musicologist Inge Lammel and in particular the folklorist Wolfgang Steinitz made substantial contributions to the collecting and publication of the 1848 songs. Their work provided an important reference point for the singers of the German folk song revival in the GDR from the late 1970s onwards. As the cases of groups such as Folkländer and Wacholder showed, theirs was a particularly creative appropriation of the revolutionary Erbe that involved performing protest songs of the past as if they were criticising the present.

Music, cantelenas, songs, etc., from an early fifteenth century manuscript ...

"Twelve of these songs are in English and four in French."

Nye og gamle Viser af og for danske Folk.

Mode of access: Internet.

Treasury of favorite song : in three volumes, ; songs and hymns of the millions of yesterday, to-day and to-morrow, /

Arr. for 4 voices (SATB) on two staves.

Three Armenian folk-tunes,

Mode of access: Internet.

Arion : a collection of four-part songs for male voices, in separate vocal parts with piano score, mainly to be sung without accompaniment /

Mode of access: Internet.

Six lyrics from Elizabethan song-books : set as part-songs /

"Dedicated to the Hon. Spencer Lyttelton, C.B."

The songs of Scotland prior to Burns with tunes.

Mode of access: Internet.

The Spanish ballads.

"This Chronicle of the Cid is wholly translation, but it is not the translation of any single work."--Pref. to the Chronicle.

King's Scotch song book : containing a choice selection of comic, sentimental, and humourous Scotish [sic] songs : vol. I.

Woodcut facing t.p.

Old songs : with drawings /

Mode of access: Internet.

American ballads and songs,

Mode of access: Internet.

Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia

Vol. 1 Tales, customs, names and dirges of the Tigrē tribes: Tigrē text. xvii, 287 p.--vol. 2. English translation. xvii, [2], 344 p. 17 pl.--vol. 3. Lieder der Tigrē-Stämme: Tigrē text. 1913. xxiv, 541 p.--vol. 4. Lieder der Tigrē-Stämme: Deutsche Übersetzung und Commentar. A. Lieder der Mänsa', Bēt-Ǵūk und Māryā. 1913. x, 587 p. B. Lieder der ʻAd-Temāryām, ʻAd-Hebtēs (Habāb), ʻAd-Taklēs und kleinerer Stämme. 1915. [4] p., p. [591]-1097, [1] p.

The Scottish minstrel : the songs of Scotland subsequent to Burns, with memoirs of the poets /

Includes pref. to the 2d ed., 1870.

English madrigal verse, 1588-1632;

Title within ornamental border.