Talk:Carmina Burana
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Orff's Carmina Burana represent only a tiny part of the Carmina Burana based at Augsburg University. See website http://www.fh-augsburg.de
- I was considering moving the Latin poems to the front of the article, or perhaps merging the two sections. No doubt most people looking for Carmina Burana are looking for the Orff cantata rather than the Latin poems. There are several recordings out there of attempts at reconstructing music from the neums present in some of the Latin manuscripts, though; I have one from Réné Clemencic; there's a better one out on Naxos from Ensemble Unicorn, and I've also heard one by Thomas Binkley that was quite good. -- IHCOYC 20:46, 14 Aug 2003 (UTC)
The manuscript
From a former version:
The manuscript is now in the care of the Bibliotheca Augustana at the University of Augsburg, Germany.
Unfortunately, the Bibliotheca Augustana is a purely virtual library, existing only on this website: http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/augustana.html
As the Augustana (http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/germanica/Chronologie/13Jh/CarminaBurana/bur_intr.html) ifself tells, the original manuscript is hold by the Bavarian State Library, Munich; its famous signature is clm 4660/4660a. - 80.184.146.105 22:56, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
The article had both
- mostly in Latin, and some in Middle High German
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- Most are in Latin; a few are in a dialect of High German, and some mix the two languages
At the risk of discarding the more detailed version, i assumed "Middle" might be accurate or not, but High German would err only by imprecision. IMO anything more specific deserves documentation, in light of the previous inconsistency.
--Jerzy(t) 02:07, 2004 Nov 16 (UTC)
The Title
"Johann Andreas Schmeller assigned it that title (meaning "Songs of Beuren") in 1847 when he compiled it at the Benedictine abbey of Benediktbeuern in Bavaria."
So shouldn't it be "Songs of Beuern"?
--217.237.151.171 16:48, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
"reportedly"
the final battle music for the video game Final Fantasy VII, which uses snippets of the text of "O Fortuna", "Estuans interius", and "Veni, veni, venias"; reportedly, it contains fragments of Orff's melody as well.
Why "reportedly"? Reported by whom? It's a comparison between two released pieces, it's not the sort of thing that merits a "reportedly". I think we should establish a clear connection or drop that part of the line, which sounds kind of fancrufty to me. I've listened to both One Winged Angel and the entirety of Carmina Burana many times, and I can't hear an obvious connection between them, besides the words. Anyone know of any such connection? Yelyos 21:44, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)
- I agree. I'll remove it until the reference is provided. --Sketchee 21:55, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)