Various French song books contain drinking songs. See those published by Pierre Ballard, in Minkoff's facsimiles, and Etienne Moulinié's song books in facsimiles by Société de Musicologie de Languedoc (Beziers). OMI should have these.
Another French drinking song is in the Lambeth Palace song book (Lambeth Palace MS 1041, fol. 19 - no. 13 in my edition), "Ne vous étonnez pas". English songs include the multitude of catches [rounds of questionalble character], in a variety of sources. Someone already mentioned Wit and Mirth Or, Pills To Purge Melancholy. The songs in Wit and Mirth provide treble only. There are a couple of modern editions of some of the songs, that have arranged accompaniments, such as: Bradley, S.A.J., editor. Sixty Ribald Songs from Pills to Purge Melancholy. Arranged with Guitar accompaniment by John W. Duarte. London: Andre Deutsch, 1968. I own original printings of several editions of Wit and Mirth if you have a specific song or three that you need. Other English songs include: Wm Lawes part songs: "A hall, a hall" [drinking] "When each line's a faithful drinker" [drinking] "What ho, we come to be merry" [drinking] solo plus chorus: "Come, take a carouse" [drinking] "Fill, fill the bowl" [drinking] & many catches by Lawes. John Wilson: song: "We sing, we feast, we dance, we play" [the only mention is in this first line] dialogues: "Bring out the cold chine to me" [food & drink] "Sack is the prince of wines" [drinking] If you cannot find editions of the Wilson songs, I have raw transcriptions in my computer of all of his music from the primary sources (for an upcoming edition). These are SCORE .MUS files, but can easily be made EPS or PDF files. Gordon J. Callon School of Music Acadia University Wolfville Nova Scotia Canada B4P 2R6 Quoting LGS-Europe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm looking for songs about food and drink. Both lute songs and continuo > songs are welcome, even 19th (or 20th) century guitar songs are welcome. > > David > > > > **************************** > David van Ooijen > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.davidvanooijen.nl > **************************** > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
