drinking-songs

There are drinking-songs in Latin in his output, as there are in German and French.

Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

Among the secular texts chosen by Lassus are drinking-songs and lieder in which the bad effects of liquor are lamented Mein Fraw hilgert; possibly the constantly expressed preference for wine over beer was a personal one.

Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

The subject matter ranges from dignified nature-poetry (Du Bellay) and Petrarchesque lyrics (Ronsard), through sententious and moralizing texts, to the familiar drinking-songs, some macaronic texts, and Rabelaisian amorous and bawdy narratives; no one wrote more amusing chansons of this last type (En un chasteau and Il esteoit une religieuse are excellent examples).

Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

The range of chosen songs was typically wide, as in the German chorale tradition, and included sacred songs, ballads, love-songs, dance songs and drinking-songs.

Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

If you care to let me have ten good drinking-songs by tomorrow morning, or something spicy, — you know the sort of thing, eh! —

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

A tone of moderation is observed throughout the drinking-songs.

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

The word is constantly occurring in old drinking-songs.

Notes and Queries, Number 188, June 4, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various

South-East, however, the more immediate retainers of the language of the Troubadours, save in a few drinking-songs and Christmas carols, had forgotten the strains that once resounded beyond the limits of Provence and had first awaked the poetic emulation of Spain and Italy.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 Various

The Scotch propensity to indulge in drink is, unfortunately, notorious; and yet our drinking-songs of a really social nature would be comprised in a few pages.

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

Then, in their banquets, the Greeks amused themselves in stringing together pretty verses, and joined in merry and jovial drinking-songs.

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various