About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 49. Chapters: Cantata, Catulli Carmina, Carmina Burana, The Skies are Weeping, Hodie, The Golden Legend, Belshazzar's Feast, Membra Jesu Nostri, Canticum Sacrum, The Prodigal Son, Sovnen, Saint Nicolas, The Song of Hiawatha, Cantata Cycle 1716-1717, Ballad for Americans, Santa Maria de Iquique, Fynsk Foraar, Summer's Last Will and Testament, Das klagende Lied, Hymnus amoris, Stabat Mater, Captain Noah and His Floating Zoo, Dona nobis pacem, Zdravitsa, The Black Knight, On Shore and Sea, Prayers of Kierkegaard, Prix de Rome Cantatas, Rejoice in the Lamb, Flourish, Mighty Land, Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution, Die erste Walpurgisnacht, Chorale cantata, Trionfo di Afrodite, Harmonia Caelestis, Cantata Profana, La Sulamite, Deutsche Sinfonie, The Whale, Seven, They are Seven, L'enfant prodigue, Passion cantata, The Origin of Fire, Festgesang, Anti-Formalist Rayok, Rinaldo, Der Herr ist mit mir, Songs of Our Days, Davide penitente, The Opening of the Wells, Geistliches Konzert, Festgesang an die Kunstler, Itaipu, Naomi and Ruth, A Christmas Cantata, Phaedra, Trionfi, Annotations of Auschwitz. Excerpt: Carmina Burana is a scenic cantata composed by Carl Orff in 1935 and 1936. It is based on 24 of the poems found in the medieval collection Carmina Burana. Its full Latin title is Carmina Burana: Cantiones profanae cantoribus et choris cantandae comitantibus instrumentis atque imaginibus magicis ("Songs of Beuern: Secular songs for singers and choruses to be sung together with instruments and magic images.") Carmina Burana is part of Trionfi, the musical triptych that also includes the cantata Catulli Carmina and Trionfo di Afrodite. The best-known movement is "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi" ("O Fortuna") that opens and closes the piece. In 1934, Orff encountered the text in the 1847 edition of the Carmina Burana by Jo.
