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- From: leeu@nobeltech.se (Leif Euren)
- Subject: Re: REQUEST: Drinking songs and loud obnoxious things
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.084957.4380@nobeltech.se>
- Organization: NobelTech AB
- References: <1e92r5INN8da@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 08:49:57 GMT
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- "Wailer at the Gates of Dawn" writes:
- > Could someone provide some pointers to some period drinking songs?
- >Serious as well as loud - baudy - obnoxious are welcome. The song that gets
- >on everybodies nerves is fine but I'd like some more variety.
-
- I'll provide you with the Nordmark favourite, In Taberna. It is best
- sung at late night revels, preferrably performed unrehearsed, and at
- least one person should sing off-key. A lot of wine helps to get in
- the right mood!
-
- I would have mailed this song if I had an english translation. The
- original is in latin, and I have translations into german and swedish,
- but not into english. So now I wonder, are there anyone somebody in
- netland who know so much latin that he or she could provide us with an
- english version? Or at least a word-for-word translation, so that
- others can provide rhythm and rhyme? I'll mail you the german (or
- swedish :-) version if you think it'll help.
-
- Until we get a translation, I'll give an short description of the
- text: it's about sitting in a tavern, drinking; how nice it is, and
- why it should be done. A number of toasts are proposed, as well as a
- long list of reasons to drink.
-
- 'hope it'll add to your revels!
-
- your humble servant
- Peder Klingrode
-
-
- Herr Peder Klingrode | Leif Euren Stockholm, Sweden
- Holmgard, Nordmark, Drachenwald, East | leeu@nobeltech.se
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
- IN TABERNA
-
- (Carmina Burana #196, s Germany, c. 1230)
-
- In taberna quando sumus,
- non curamus, quid sit humus,
- sed ad ludum properamus,
- cui semper insudamus.
- Quid agatur in taberna,
- ubi summus est pincerna,
- hoc est opus ut quaeratur;
- sic quid loquar, audiatur.
-
- Quidam ludunt, quidam bibunt,
- quidam indiscrete vivunt;
- sed in ludo qui morantur,
- ex his quidam denudantur,
- quidam ibi vestiuntur,
- quidam saccis induuntur:
- ibi nullus timet mortem,
- sed pro Bacchus mittunt sortem.
-
- Primo pro nummata vini;
- ex hac bibunt libertini:
- semel bibunt pro captivis,
- post haec bibunt ter pro vivis,
- quater pro Christianis cunctis,
- quinquies pro fidelibus defunctis,
- sexies pro sororibus vanis,
- septies pro militibus silvanis,
- octies pro fratribus perversis,
- novies pro monachis dispersis,
- decies pro navigantibus,
- undecies pro discordantibus,
- duodecies pro paenitentibus,
- tredecies pro iter agentibus,
- tam pro papa quam pro rege.
-
- Bibit hera, bibit herus,
- bibit miles, bibit clerus,
- bibit ille, bibit illa,
- bibit servus cum ancilla,
- bibit velox, bibit piger,
- bibit albus, bibit niger,
- bibit constans, bibit vagus,
- bibit rudis, bibit magus.
-
- Bibit pauper et aegrotus,
- bibit exul et ignotus,
- bibit puer, bibit canus,
- bibit praesul et decanus,
- bibit soror, bibit frater,
- bibit anus, bibit mater,
- bibit iste, bibit ille,
- bibit centum, bibit mille.
-
- Parum sescentae nummatae
- durant, cum immoderate
- bibunt omnes sine meta,
- quamvis bibant mente laeta.
- Sic nos rodunt omnes gentes,
- et sic erimus egentes.
- Qui nos rodunt, confundantur
- "et cum iustis non scribantur".
-
-
-
- Tune:
- d d f d e f g e
- g g f e d f d d
- d d f d e f g e
- g g f e d f d d
- a g f e g g a a
- a g f e g g a a
- d d f d e f g e
- g g f e d f d d
-
-
- Primary source: "Codex Buranus", Bayrische Staatsbibl. clm 4600 - 4660a
- ("Beuren-manuskripten")
-
- Secondary source: Beuren-manuskripten,
- published by Johann Andreas Schmeller, Stuttgart (1847)
-
- Tertiary source: Liber Cantorum Nordmarkensium,
- compiled by brother Botvid (pseud. Bo Ohlson), Stockholm (1991)
-
- Recommended recording: "Carmina Burana" Clementic Consort,
- harmonia mundi HMA 43385
-