Word: igitur
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...foremost composer of serious music today": the songs were about wine, women and sport. The last tune before the recapitulation, for example, is Fuchslied (Fox Hunt), played by two choppy bassoons imitating the way freshmen used to sing it. The piece ends with Gaudeamus Igitur, the most popular of student songs, probably still sung by most members of the Fly Club: "Let us rejoice when we are young...
Those who don't have an ear for music will be able to remember a line in the moderato of the Shostakovich that sounds just like the theme from Million Dollar Movie. The Tubin, similarly, contains rhapsodic, whistling tunes of the Bohemian life. And Gaudeamus Igitur--well, a trip to the Hasty Pudding might be just as good...
...igitur, veni intro...
...mirifice sunt amoris imperatores facti. Eheu, quam proterve K. Vadum Fractum, lascivi suboles gregis, iterum aestuat! Musae quidem Plautinae alto de caelo Cantabrigiam descenderunt; Risus Ludus Iocusque ubique vigescunt. Tempestas nobis arridet. O ver Plautinum! O collegium Harvardianum, nuper modestum morum bonorum praesidium, nunc vividum alacris motus gymnasium! Cavete igitur vos decani decanulique--"non intret Cato theatrum meum"--nec non vos, o septum novi homines qui ad spinosam Lapparum tutelam elevati estis. Quae enim saga Radcliffiensis, quis magus Harvardianus pollenti pectore nunc praesentire potest quam mira et magna Plautus et Bacchus et fervidus ille puer et solutis Gratiae zonis...
...Gregem igitur totum summis laudibus ad caclum extollamus. Plausum clarum demus! Iterum enim est demonstratum nos Cantabrigienses in comoedia minime claudicare. Floreant histriones classici...