Abstract
n this study, as well as in my contribution to the Musicological Congress at Salzburg 19641, I attempt to apply comparative methods to the history of music; but whereas the paper I wrote for the Congress discusses methodological principles, I will treat here a special example: the origins of the German spiritual folk song.2 This problem is important for ethnomusicology as well as for music history because songs such as Christ ist erstanden are representative of ancient folk song and its oral tradition in modern times, and because they were, on the other hand, an historical basis of the congregational chorale and the chorale setting, such as the hymns of Luther and the cantatas of Bach.
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