medieval Latin translation help needed/ Re: Carmina Burana (was help with medieval Latin)

on 7/11/06 5:33 AM, caeruleancentaur at caeruleancentaur@YAHOO.COM wrote:

>> Hanuman Zhang <zhang@...> wrote:
>
>> I would like to know if any one can/would have a translation of the
>> following:
>
>> O Fortuna
>> velut luna
>> statu variabilis,....
>
>> - "CARMINA BURANA 1. FORTUNA IMPERATRIX MUNDI"
>> by Carl Orff
>
> Carl Orff did not write the "Carmina Burana."  He wrote a musical
> setting for a selection of some 200 songs from a 13th century
> codex.  [...]

on 7/11/06 5:59 AM, Mark J. Reed at markjreed@MAIL.COM wrote:

> MUSIC by Carl Orff, lyrics not so much. [...]


Thanx you two, too. I knew that. I was just over-simplifying the
"reference."

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on 7/11/06 7:47 AM, Sally Caves at scaves@FRONTIERNET.NET wrote:

> I love Carl Orff's musical rendition of these poems.  My favorite one is
> about the forlorn swan ("Olim lacus colueram!) once beautiful, who has been
> killed and cooked, served by the dapifer, and who now approaches the
> gnashing teeth.  Oh where is my LP?  With all the lyrics?
>
> The collection combines sin and love (stetit puella!) in the most exquisite
> way, and medieval German and Latin.

Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't most of these texts/songs/poems by
defrocked monks & nuns?




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Hanuman Zhang

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