Carmina Burana
  • Composer
    • Childhood and Youth
    • Early Years
    • Trining and Study Years
    • Educational Work
    • Nazi Era
    • Denazification
    • School Radio Broadcasts
    • After WWII
    • Other Significant Works
  • Historical Circumstances
    • Material
    • Language
    • Background
    • Critical Reception
  • Performing Forces
  • Analysis
    • Overview
    • Prelude
    • Part I
    • Part II.
    • Part III.
    • Finale
    • Text
  • Work Cited

Overview


  • Work consists of three parts, "In Springtime, On the Lawn," "In the Tavern" and "The Court of Love", and imagery "Fortuna" throughout the whole song, consistent.





Prelude

Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi --- Fortune, Empress of the World

1. Fortuna--- O Fortune

2. Fortune plango vulnera--- I Lament the Wounds That Fortune Deals








Part I.

Primo vere --- In Springtime

3.  Veris leta facies-- The Joyous Face of Spring

4.  Omnia sol temperat-- All Things Are Tempered

5.  Ecce gratum-- Behold the Welcome

   
Uf dem anger --- On the Lawn

6.  Tanz-- Dance

7.  Floret silva nobilis (Small and large choruses)-- The Noble Forest

8.  Chramer, gip die varwe mir (Small and large choruses) [German]-- Salesman! Give Me Colored Paint

9.  Reie [German]-Rreie

   -Swaz hie gat umbe (Chorus)--- They Who Here Go Dancing Round

    -Chume, chum geselle min (Small Chorus)--- Come, Come, Dear Heart of Mine

    -Swaz hie gat umbe (Chorus)--- They Who Here Go Dancing Round

10. Were diu werlt alle min [German]-- If the Whole World Were but Mine








Part II.

In Taberna --- In the Tavern

11. Estuans interius--- Seething Inside

12. Olim lacus colueram--- Once in Lakes I Made My Home

13. Ego sum abbas (Percussion, brass and chorus)--- I Am the Abbot

14. In taberna quando sumus--- When We Are in the Tavern








Part III.

Cour d'amours --- The Court of Love

15. Amor volat undique (Boys chorus with soprano)--- Love Flies Everywhere

16. Dies, nox et omnia--- Day, Night, and All the World

17. Stetit puella--- There Stood a Young Girl

18. Circa mea pectora--- My Breast

19. Si puer cum puellula--- If a Boy and a Girl

20. Veni, veni, venias (Double chorus, two pianos and six percussionists)--- Come, Come, Pray Come

21. In truitina--- In the Scales

22. Tempus est iocundum (Two pianos, percussion and vocalists except tenor)--- Pleasant Is the Season

23. Dulcissime--- Sweetest Boy







Finale

Blanziflor et Helena --- Blanziflor and Helena

24. Ave formosissima (Three glockenspiels with independent parts)--- Hail to Thee

 
Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi --- Fortune, Empress of the World

25. O Fortuna (Fortune, Empress of the World)---O Fortune



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