![]() ![]() There seems to have always been a large number of such people in temporary residence in university towns both in their native countries and in foreign parts. No poem is assigned to an author.Ī remarkable feature of the intellectual life of the late Middle Ages was the ease and readiness with which scholars and students (and no doubt a good many hangers-on) moved about Europe from one university town to another. The manuscript has a type of musical notation, which is not followed by Orff but which has been used by others to reconstruct the original presentation. mixtures of Latin and a vernacular (here either German or French). The main language is Latin a few are in German or are macaronic, i.e. Most of the poems seem to have been intended to be sung. (iii) Songs connected with drinking and gambling. (ii) Love songs and songs celebrating the return of spring. (i) Moralistic and satirical poems, the former being concerned with the human condition and the world at large, the latter with abuses in the church. These poems, which come to more than two hundred in number but are never of any great length, can be roughly classified as follows: They form only a small part of the whole Carmina Burana, the name applied to a large collection of medieval poems which survive in a late medieval manuscript found in the early nineteenth century in southern Germany. The poems presented here are those which have been set to music by the German composer Carl Orff (1895-1982). ![]()
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