Open this publication in new window or tab >>2021 (Swedish)In: Årsbok för svenskt gudstjänstliv, ISSN 0280-9133, Vol. 96, p. 53-96Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
The study dels with different approaches to the use of Gregorian chant with Swedish texts in the Divine Office, from the 1920s onward, with particular focus on psalmody. In 1924, the clergymen Arthur Adell and Knut Peters published Evangelisk tidegärd, the first modern Swedish-language service order for the Office using exclusively Gregorian melodies. The official Vesperale and Psalterium of 1925, using mainly Gregorian melodies, was severely criticized by Peters, who, together with Adell, sought to establish principles for the use of Swedish texts to Gregorian psalmody.
How such principles ought to be formulated and applied was discussed intermittently in the following decades. While all prticipants in these debates agreed that using Gregorian chant to Swedish texts entailed special difficulties, opinions on how to handle these problems varied widely, and, especially from the 1980s, it was questioned whether the Swedish language was at all suitable for Gregorian chant. The Laurentius Petri Society, founded by Adell and Peters, maintained that original Gregorian melodies could – and should – be used, whereas the Roman-Catholic diocese in Sweden advocated a modified psalmody, albeit still based on the traditional psalm tones. These differences, reflected in the respective editions, still perist as different ideals and principles, although a converging tendency may be observed in recent years.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Skellefteå: Artos & Norma bokförlag, 2021
Keywords
tidegärd, gregoriansk sång, svenska språket, Arthur Adell, Knut Peters, Ragnar Holte, Anders Ekenberg
National Category
Musicology
Research subject
Musical Performance
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-86822 (URN)
Note
Validerad;2022;Nivå 1;2022-08-19 (hanlid)
2021-08-252021-08-252022-08-19Bibliographically approved