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''Cantate!'' (Sing!) is a German
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hymnal A hymnal or hymnary is a collection of hymns, usually in the form of a book, called a hymnbook (or hymn book). They are used in congregational singing. A hymnal may contain only hymn texts (normal for most hymnals for most centuries of Christia ...
first published in 1847, and continued in seven editions until 1879. It was a collection of 444 old and new songs, edited by the educator and hymnwriter
Heinrich Bone Heinrich Bone (25 September 181310 June 1893) was a German educator and hymnwriter. He wrote a reader for German studies which was used for higher education in Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria, until it was banned during the Kulturkampf. ...
, and the first Catholic hymnal in German that was used in multiple dioceses. Several of the songs are still part of the common Catholic hymnal in the Germanosphere, ''
Gotteslob ''Gotteslob'' ("Praise of God") is the title of the hymnbook authorized by the Catholic dioceses in Germany, Austria, South Tyrol, Luxembourg and Liège, Belgium. First published in Advent 2013, it is the current official hymnal for German-speak ...
''.


History

Heinrich Bone published the hymnal ''Cantate!'' (''Sing!''), a collection of 444 songs, which appeared between 1847 and 1879 in seven editions. It was the first Catholic hymnal which was used in multiple German-speaking dioceses. A book with melodies for the songs appeared in 1852.


Program

The hymnal has a programmatic title in Latin, referring to the traditional
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of the
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in the
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. It is subtitled "Katholisches Gesangbuch nebst Gebeten und Andachten für alle Zeiten und Feste des Kirchenjahres" (Catholic songbook including prayers and contemplations for all times and feasts of the church year). Bone published traditional Latin hymns as the basis for singing in church, and also translated medieval and
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hymns into contemporary
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, such as " Komm, Schöpfer Geist, kehr bei uns ein" as a paraphrase of the 9th-century
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, to make the return of traditional choral hymns to Catholic services more feasible. It also contained new hymns. For the second, expanded edition of 1851, Bone wrote a foreword of several pages explaining his program, dated Christmas 1850. It is followed by an alphabetic index of the songs, first the songs in German, then those in Latin. A list of prayers and contemplations is followed by a list of the feasts, naming a
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for each day of the year. The songs begin with Latin hymns, listed with parallel German versions. The section with songs in German follows the liturgical year, beginning with
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. Hymns often refer to original Latin hymns.


''Gotteslob''

The common German hymnal ''
Gotteslob ''Gotteslob'' ("Praise of God") is the title of the hymnbook authorized by the Catholic dioceses in Germany, Austria, South Tyrol, Luxembourg and Liège, Belgium. First published in Advent 2013, it is the current official hymnal for German-speak ...
'' of 1975 contained several songs from Bone's ''Cantate!'', some with revised wording. Some were included in its second edition of 2013, and some also in the Protestant hymnal '' EG''. In the following list, the GL number refers to the 2013 edition, with the former number in brackets. * GL 222 (112) "Herr, send herab uns deinen Sohn" for
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, after Veni, veni, Emmanuel * GL 258 (158) "Lobpreiset all zu dieser Zeit" for
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, also EG 550 (West), first two stanzas * GL 329 (220) " Das ist der Tag, den Gott gemacht" for
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, stanzas 1,2,5 * GL 351 (245) " Komm, Schöpfer Geist, kehr bei uns ein" for
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, after
Veni Creator Spiritus ''Veni Creator Spiritus'' (Latin: Come, Creator Spirit) is a traditional Christian hymn believed to have been written by Rabanus Maurus, a ninth-century German monk, teacher, archbishop, and saint. When the original Latin text is used, it is norma ...
* GL 142 (462) " Zu dir, o Gott, erheben wir", for the beginning of a service * GL 532 (584) "Christi Mutter stand mit Schmerzen", a paraphrase of the
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* GL 522 (587) "Maria aufgenommen ist" for
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* GL 526 (589) " Alle Tage sing und sage", a paraphrase of "Omni die dic Mariae" Hymns in regional sections of the ''Gotteslob'' include: * "Das Zeichen ist geschehen" (
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, John the Baptist) * "Lass erschallen die Posaune" (Advent) * "Zion, auf, werde licht" (
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) * "Zu dir in schwerem Leid" (
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) * "Am Ölberg in nächtlicher Stille" (
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) * "" (
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) * "O heiligste Dreieinigkeit" (after
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,
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) * "Nun lasst uns aus der Seele Grund" * "Vater unser, der du wohnest" (paraphrase of
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) * "Nun lobet Gott und singet" ( Corpus Christi) * "Christen, seht der Engel Speise" (paraphrase of
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) * "Die Jungfrau auserkoren" (birth of Mary) * "Johannes, auserkoren" (St. John's Day) * "Zu der Apostel Preis und Ruhm" * "Herr, segne ihn, den du erwählt" (consecreation of a priest) * "Herr, gib Frieden dieser Seele" (
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) * "Dir, Vater, tönt der Lobgesang" (
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