Commercium song

Commercium songs are traditional academic songs that are sung during academic feasts: commercia and tablerounds.

Allgemeines Deutsches Kommersbuch ("General German Commercium Songbook"), cover sheet of 1858

Some very old commercium songs are in Latin, like Meum est propositum or Gaudeamus igitur.

In some countries, hundreds of commercium songs are compiled in commercium books.

• Allgemeines Deutsches Kommersbuch (Germany)
• Le petit bitu (Belgium)
• Studentencodex (Belgium)
• Carpe Diem (Belgium)
• Codex Studiosorum Bruxellensis (Belgium)

German fraternity students singing a commercium song during a tableround (Kneipe)

See also

• De Brevitate Vitae
• Academic Festival Overture
• Im schwarzen Walfisch zu Askalon
• Biernagel

External links

• English and Latin commercium songs

• Wine, Women, and Song at Project Gutenberg Medieval Latin Students' Songs Translated into English Verse by John Addington Symonds