![]() ![]() Many scholars have translated excerpts from the collection in anthologies of medieval verse over the past hundred and thirty years, including John Addington Symonds' Wine, Women, and Song (1884), Helen Waddell's Mediaeval Latin Lyrics (1929), George F. Given the enduring popularity of Orff's compositions, it is surprising that the enterprise of translating the entire manuscript of the Carmina Burana into English has proven elusive until very recently. His arrangments have subsequently enjoyed immense success in concert halls, television commercials, and film soundtracks. ![]() Fordham Carmina Burana ("Songs of Beuren") is unquestionably the most famous collection of medieval poetry in the modern imagination, in no small part because of the industry of the composer Carl Orff (1895-1982), who in 1937 put twenty-four of these poems to music for chorus and orchestra.
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