Nder the impression that it was a medieval university tradition. As if !! It is sung here in New Zealand at graduations and I was u I always thought that it was sung at graduation to remind students that there is more to life than working, writing essays and translating Latin. Symonds claims that it is sung by German students after the death of a friend. I don't know how reliable Symonds is: it is certainly a bit dated now and modern scholarship may have superseded his own. The most famous example is the Benedictbuern Codex, or "Carmina Burana". The Goliards were vagabond students or clerics who wrote poetry on the themes of drinking, l The book is a collection of Goliardic songs and poetry, from roughly the late twelfth century. Symonds called "Wine Women And Song" (London, 1884) in which he translates "Gaudeamus". The result was a bit thin, but I did manage to track down a little book by J.A. I spent some of my morning sneezing my way around the dustier and less recently used parts of our library in search of references to "Gaudeamus Igitur".
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