Commercium song

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

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

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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