Drinking song

A drinking song is a song that is sung mainly at social events in conjunction with the consumption of alcoholic beverages. It is often applied as a strophic song or as cannon. Drinking songs are found in almost all cultures of the world.

History

To determine the origin of the drinking songs exactly, is difficult, especially since the drinking song is probably older than the written language. Busy though is that already the ancient Romans were wont to chant their orgies ( read eg Cicero).

As a medieval example may be in taberna from the Carmina Burana called. Since the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, in particular from numerous drinking songs are handed down to us, so from the oeuvre of Hans Leo Hassler, Orlando di Lasso or Oswald von Wolkenstein. Even then, are tendencies determine the mocking - critical reflection, such as Vitrum nostrum gloriosum that is created entirely in the style of a Gregorian chant, but the enjoyment of wine sings and taunts with diffizilen musical means the clergy.

In the late 18th and in the 19th century drinking song underwent a special care in the student circles: created countless varieties of student song good, but the boundary between the actual drinking song, the jest and ridicule songs (sometimes historicizing breathed ), rags, songs, hiking songs and the political songs is not always clearly drawn. For the common Kneip evenings the students the songs were combined in specially created Kommers books that were aptly fitted with so-called beer nails to not be damaged by contact with the inevitably while flowing water. The tradition of student drinking song froze in the Wilhelmine era; In addition to the canon of the official song Good barely came new songs.

An overview of wine and drinking songs from antiquity to modern times shows the literary-musical program Lyrical wine Songs ( 2007) of singer-songwriter Pilo.

Examples

• Tourdion
• Ergo bibamus
• A toast of coziness ( Thanksgiving Italy 2008)
• Iced Bommerlunder
• For seven days

• Lyrical form
• Song genus
• Drinking Song
• Student song