Carl Orff’s 24 selections from the 200 beloved medieval poems of the Carmina Burana celebrate the universal range of human emotion and experience: passion, longing, exuberance, humor, rebellion, ennui, and resignation. Now tender, now tragic; secular, yet reverent; the poems of the Carmina touch the chords of our purest and darkest spirituality. An excellent resource for the student, the performer, the audience, and the general reader.
Special Features
- Dual-language edition with original Latin poems and facing English translation
- 18 medieval woodcut prints and 17 original illustrations
- Facing vocabulary
- Glossary
- Essays on medieval poetry and Latin, the selections, and Carl Orff
- Text suitable for use as a libretto
- Additional literary translation by Jeffrey M. Duban
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