WeXel oder Die Musik einer Landschaft

• Main Author: Deutsch, Walter (auth)
• Other Authors: Sieder, Erika (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Music; Traditional music in the Styrian / Lower Austrian Wechsel-region; songs during the corpse-watch in the farmhouse of the deceased; CDs; historical recordings; dictionary of local dialect; incipits; Nö.-steir. Wechselgebiet; Geistliches Lied: Leichhüatlieder; bäuerliche Tradition der Totenwache; 3 CDs; historische Tondokumente; Wörterbuch; Melodienincipits; Aspang-Markt; Gott; Refrain; Trattenbach; Warth (Niederösterreich)
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Traditional music of the Wechsel, styrian-lower austrian border region, 100 kms south of Vienna. Volume 1 "The religious song" sung during the farmer's traditional two-night corpse-watch at the bier in the house of the deceased. 192 songs with text, music and incipits, 3 CDs with hist...