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''Chanson pour boire'' and ''chanson à boire'' are terms for French
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''Chanson pour boire'' and ''chanson à boire'' are terms for French drinking song
A drinking song is a song sung while drinking Alcoholic beverage, alcohol. Most drinking songs are Folk music, folk songs or commercium songs, and may be varied from person to person and region to region, in both the lyrics and in the music.
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s, frequently coupled with ''chanson pour danser'' (or "song for dancing"). It was used in from about 1627–1670. It is different from the ''air à boire ''Air à boire'' is a French language, French term which was used between the mid-17th and mid-18th centuries for a "drinking song". These were generally strophic, syllabic songs to light texts. Its predecessor was ''chanson pour boire'', the differ ...
'' primarily by the period the term was used, and that ''chansons pour boire'' are usually for one voice with lute
A lute ( or ) is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. It may be either fretted or unfretted.
More specifically, the term "lute" can ref ...
accompaniment, and ''airs à boire'' are for multiple voices with lute accompaniment. Both are fairly simple; strophic
Strophic form – also called verse-repeating form, chorus form, AAA song form, or one-part song form – is a song structure in which all verses or stanzas of the text are sung to the same music. Contrasting song forms include through-composed, w ...
, with syllabic settings of light texts. The texts are usually about drinking and are humorous.Baron
See also
*Chanson paillarde
A (, , french: chanson française, link=no, ; ) is generally any lyric-driven French song, though it most often refers to the secular polyphonic French songs of late medieval and Renaissance music. The genre had origins in the monophonic so ...
, popular French songs with a sexual and humorous content.
References
*John H. Baron. "Chanson pour boire", ''Grove Music Online
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'', ed. L. Macy (accessed December 2, 2006)grovemusic.com
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