Lyr Add: Wachet Auf (Round)

Subject: Lyr Add: Wachet Auf (Round)
From: chico
Date: 20 Jun 05 - 04:47 AM

          C    
  Wachet auf, wachet auf,         Wake up, Wake up
       G7         C
  Es krähte der Hahn;                It's the crowing of the hen
  
  Die Sonne betritt                 The sun enters
        G7     C
  Ihre goldne Bahn.                Your golden course
  
  
  [Kanon zu zwei Stimmen, Text und Melodie: Johann Jakob 
  
  Wachsmann (1791 - 1853)] 

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Wachet Auf (Round)
From: Wolfgang
Date: 20 Jun 05 - 10:09 AM

I have learned it with 'krähet', but both versions make sense and I have no idea what came originally at that place.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Wachet Auf (Round)
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 20 Jun 05 - 03:36 PM

Reminded me of the words to the 18c. chorale prelude by Johann Krebs, "Wachet auf!" Also the title for a chorale by J. S. Bach.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Wachet Auf (Round)
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 21 Jun 05 - 08:45 AM

The choral is: Wachet auf! ruft uns die Stimme des Wächters sehr hoch von der Zinne ... = Wake up! the guard cries from the pinnacle high above; wake up, wake up, Jerusalem and so on.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Wachet Auf (Round)
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 21 Jun 05 - 09:00 AM

There's a small error in the translation of the last line. It should say "its golden course," not "Your."

In German the word for your (formal) and her are spelled the same. The sun, being feminine, gets "ihr" for its.

I wish I could find the tune so I could hear the harmonies of this round,but I didn't have any luck.

Thanks for posting.

Subject: Tune Add: WACHET AUF (Round)
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Jun 05 - 09:23 AM

X:1450
T:Wachet auf
C:Joh. Jakob Wachsmann
O:Germany
R:Catch
Z:Transcribed by Frank Nordberg - http://www.musicaviva.com
F:http://abc.musicaviva.com/tunes/wachsmann-joh-jakob/wachsmann-wachet-auf.abc
M:3/4
L:1/4
K:C
"^1"C/ E/|"C"G2 E/ G/|"C"c2c|"G7"B>AB|"C"c2 "^2"c|
w:Wa-chet auf, wa-chet auf, es kr\"ah-te der Hahn; die
"C"e>dc|GEC|(DG)F|E2:|
w:Son-ne be-tritt ih-re gold--ne Bahn.
W:
W:Wachet auf, wachet auf, es kr\"ahte der Hahn;
W:die Sonne betritt ihre goldne Bahn.
W:
W:
W: From Musica Viva - http://www.musicaviva.com
W: the Internet center for free sheet music downloads.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Wachet Auf (Round)
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 21 Jun 05 - 10:19 AM

Thanks for the link to the Musica Viva site, Guest. I used the PDF file to add this round to my repertoire.

It is interesting that the PDF and MIDI files on this page are somewhat different. I decided to play it one way the first time and the other way on the repeat.

Wilfred, I think you are right about "krahte." I think "krahet" sounds better - that puts the whole song in the present tense. (Please note that there are invisible umlauts on both those words.)

Wait a minute - "betritt" is present tense, isn't it?

Since there are three notes available for "goldene" why bother with the awkward "goldne"?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Wachet Auf (Round)
From: chico
Date: 21 Jun 05 - 05:03 PM

Sheet Music public domain located here:

http://www.musicaviva.com/midi/music.tpl?filnavn=wachsmann-wachet-auf

(click on 'listen to midi' to hear

The german usuage may be archaic.