Songs celebrating drinking and eating ... and often love (disappointed or victorious).
Bacchus has a privileged place.
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MeF 1119 : Oyez, honorables bourgeois (God rest you merry, gentlemen). Traditional english carol arranged by Bernard Lallement. English and french texts. More about Bernard Lallement
MeF 356 - Jean-Baptiste Lully : Air des trembleurs (for 3 mixed voices). Everybody knows Henry Purcell's "Air du Froid", taken from King Arthur, composed in 1691. Lully had used this principle of vocal staccato as early as 1677 to evoke the...
MeF 1781 : César Franck - Ave Maria ( sop, ten (alt), bass) for 3 mixed voices and organ More about César Franck
MeF 1118 : Noël du Languedoc for 3 mixed voices a cappella. A simple and easy joyful traditional carol from the south of France
MeF 355 - Barbara Strozzi : Quel misero usignolo, madrigal for 4 mixed voices and Basso Continuo. Barbara Strozzi (Venice, 1619 - Padua, 1664), Italian soprano and composer, was the adopted (and natural) daughter of the poet and librettist Giulio...
MeF 1780 - Marc-Antoine Charpentier : motet to the Virgin Mary for mixed voices
MeF 138 / traditional folk song from Flanders, for 4 mixed voices Young lady, do not grieve, the feast of St. Anne's is coming up. It must arrive soon, then it will pass. Let's dance, let's jump, let's enjoy ourselves and be content. Such a life,...
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This drinking song is in 3 parts, including the middle part written in round. It includes several verses evoking the dread of the drinker, but also making fun of doctors and other "serious" occupatons but all also drinkers ...
Written with a low Latin language, and parodying Gregorian chant, this drinking song was published in 1540 in Nuremberg.
This song, by an anonymous composer, belongs to the collection of "Thirty and seven newly and correctly printed musical songs ..." published by Pierre ATTAIGNANT or ATTAINGNANT music publisher in Paris around 1528. The pleasures of the table, the...
MeF 505PDF - Claudin de Semisy : Ceux de Picardie - easy and lively Renaissance song. This earthy and joyful drinking song is very simple and easy to remember. Halfway between Renaissance and Middle Ages music, it celebrates the ability of Piacrds...
Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin's piano accompaniment is also available: MeF 319 What! Still drinking songs? Will I never hear songs to eat? Vine everywhere we celebrate its glory! Nobody says a word about the vegetable garden! What...
