sentences:  In the 1690s "airs à boire" were so popular that new collections containing them were published every three months in Paris.In the period when the term was used, over 250 collections of songs with the title "Airs sérieux et à boire" were published.Composers who were prolific in the genre were Marc-Antoine Charpentier, (38 compositions), André Campra, François Couperin, Jean-Fery Rebel, Henry Desmarest, Jean-Baptiste Drouart de Bousset, Michel Lambert, Etienne Moulinier, Sébastien Le Camus and Sébastien de Brossard.