My Favorite Songs
Gaudeamus Igitur played on the Altgeld Chime Tower
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (ca. 1.8 MG aiff)
  
This international student song of the medieval period was used by Brahms in 1860 to end his "Academic Festival Overture." The tune is rendered by David Carroll, Chimeplayer, with the bells of Altgeld Tower on the campus of the University of Illinois.

Gaudeamus igitur,
Iuvenes dum sumus.
Post iucundam iuventutem,
Post molestam senectutem,
Nos habebit humus,
Nos habebit humus.

Vivat academie,
Vivant professores,
Vivat membrum quodlibet,
Vivant membra quaelibet,
Semper sint in flore,
Semper sint in flore.

Vivat et respublica,
Et qui illam sores,
Vivat nostra civitas,
Vivat haec sodalitas,
Quae nos huc collegit,
Quae nos huc collegit.

Oh let us rejoice,
While we are young.
Oh let us rejoice,
While we are young.
After pleasent youth,
After troublesome old age.
Earth will have us,
Earth will hold us.

Let the Academy live,
Let the professors live on,
Whither so ever you please.
Let the members live,
Let the members live,
May they always be in flower,
May they always be in flower.

And let the republic live
And the one who rules it.
Let our state live.
Let this brotherhood live.
Which gathers us here.
Which gathers us here.

  

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